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A Christmas baking nervous breakdown
I just had my first official Christmas nervous breakdown ever. As in, tears were shed.
I like to bake. I like to give my baking to others. So of course for the holidays I like to give yummy baked goods. This past weekend I made a bunch of stuff and froze it, to give away on Sunday. I have today off so I can continue baking.
I had two things on my baking to-do list – mini chocolate chip cookies that I’ve made before and people eat like crack and these cookies I’ve never made before which are basically snickerdoodles wrapped around a Hershey Kiss.
The chocolate chip cookies involve making the dough and letting it set in the fridge for 1-2 days. I took the dough out from the fridge this morning to get soft and then set to work about an hour later. These cookies are small. Like tiny. So it’s pretty time consuming to scoop out tiny dollops onto the cookie sheet. I probably spent an hour doing this, keeping in mind each batch only takes like 5 minutes baking.
So I finished those, but since they’re so tiny, they don’t fit on my baking sheet (they fall through the gaps) so I put them all in a baking dish on my dining room table and got to making the Kiss cookies.
Those were also time consuming. You make the dough, make balls, flatten them, put the Kiss on top and mound the dough up around the Kiss. I made 25 cookies in two batches.
As the second batch was baking, however, I rememberd that I was supposed to dust a confectioner sugar/cocoa mix over the HOT cookies. The first batch was already pretty cool, also on the dining room table, but I decided to go dust them anyway.
I had to move some paper under the cooling rack so the dusted sugar could fall underneath it and be collected. I was moving the rack around trying to get it into a position that could get a paper underneath it and then….it happened.
You know how people say things happen in slow motion. And you’re like, “Yeah, whatever, be a little more dramatic, why don’t you?”
When I tell you that the baking dish full of more than 100 tiny chocolate chip cookies fell off the table onto the floor in slow motion, I’m not kidding.
I just looked at this heap of cookies on the rug in stunned silence. Then I started to cry. What a waste of time! What a stupid thing I had done moving things on the table! Why was I going to all of this trouble anyway?!
Then I started thinking …. does the 5 second rule apply here? But how mortified would I be if I gave someone a bag of cookies and they found a hair? What if I inspected every one of them first? I couldn’t possibly let these all go to waste!
I was able to save about 24 cookies that had fallen on the top of the heap and never touched the floor. However, I just bagged up 96 (!) mini cookies. I really don’t have the heart to trash them, so I’ll probably feed them to the obnoxious ducks and geese down by the Wayside Country Store on Rte. 20 in Marlborough.
At least they’ll have a Merry Christmas! 
And for what it’s worth, the Kiss cookies are yummy. Whoever gets them, you better savor every last bite!!
baking with Bill & Sheila
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