I Really Am the Worst Cookie-Maker. Ever.

This is a pretty good sampling of how the cookies turned out.

Totally flat.

DESPITE the fact that I used baking soda (instead of baking powder, which I have done before).

I was so excited to use my new kitchen things. I wore my flirty apron (from my husband), used my cooling racks and stirring spoon (from my mother-in-law), and my new spring-y oven mitt (from my mom). How could these cookies go wrong??

Well let me tell you. The first batch ended in flat cookies with burned edges.

So I switched to a lighter pan, tried rolling the dough into balls, and turned down the oven.

Flat. And stuck together. And not cooked all the way. (But not burned!)

So, I made smaller cookies, placed a pan under the cookie pan to create some air ventilation and prevent burned cookies, turned up the oven a little, and still flat.

There is a point, I think, when every good cook questions her abilities to bake cookies, and wonders if she is ever meant to make a good cookie.

Friends, I hit that point. I wondered if I'd left out an ingredient--like maybe flour. Or over-did the butter.

Nope. All as the recipe required.

EXCEPT!

I failed to notice the high altitude recipe--which significantly changed half the recipe.

So, my cookies are a fail. At least they're good frozen!

PLUS

I got my hair cut today. I was never meant for long hair.

(Look, Bones likes it, too!)