I wanted to make Monster Cookies, but alas, I had no M&Ms.
I discovered a Choc chip recipe which had the added benefit of oats. Close to Monster cookies, minus the peanut butter and the M&Ms.
Knowing Martha doesn't really like chocolate chip cookies, I downsize the recipe.
Let the baking begin! Tues night, thirty minutes before Fallie's target bath and bedtime, we begin. Fallon, thrilled to be baking cookies, screams at every stage, grabbing measuring spoons and cups and raw eggs---"Me, Me. Let me do it!" As the frenzy to complete the cookies in time builds, I hand Fallie the eggs to crack. She is a whirling dervish cracking eggs and handing me shells, one after another.
Will hovers, anxious to begin the bedtime routine. I grab a cookie tray and begin to dish out the dough so that a cookie will be eaten before nighttime irrevocably falls. Except....
Something is wrong with the dough. It is gooey, and goopy (I don't want to say slimey). What have I done? I reread the recipe and realize that the adjustments were all made, except for the egg frenzy. Three eggs were added where only one was called for. Hmmmmmm. There's no question, we'll have to triple the recipe!
Three batches:
Tuesday night I baked chocolate chip and oat cookies.
Wednesday morning I purchased the missing M&Ms and threw them into the mix.
Thursday I sent Will to the store for peanut butter and added that to the third batch.
Monster Cookies by degrees.
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