Last week I created my own cookie recipe completely from scratch. I’ve always had a lot of respect for the work that goes into inventing a recipe for baked goods, and my own experience only cemented that. The hours of tweaking ingredient proportions to determine what sort of texture you’ll end up with, and then discovering how the mixture will react upon baking and figuring out what temperature and cooking time it will need is no easy feat. Before I came up with the final recipe for “Beeb’s Ginger Cookies”, I ended up with a series of under-and-over-cooked drop cookies and gingerbread men. Because we had to carefully experiment with the cooking time in order to figure out how long the final recipe should stay in the oven, I ended up with a bag of inedible lumps.
But I knew someone who would appreciate these reject cookies from the Contest Corner test kitchen:
The seagulls down at the beach!
Yep, these cookies are “For the birds”! 😉 The seagulls are very adept and capable of catching cookies tossed to them in mid-air:
We also took some of the cookies down to the local park to share with the ducks, but they seemed considerably less impressed with my cooking:
I don’t know what Betty Crocker does with her leftover cookie experiments, but this is how our test kitchen puts leftovers to use!
If you want to make a cookie that’s actually edible, check out my Ginger Cookie recipe – the cookie that all this experimentation led to!
That is too funny! At least someone was able to enjoy the failed experiments.
Cute recycling of the cookies! Great post.
Seagulls will eat virtually anything, LOL.
Yay, that must feel great to have created a recipe all your own!
Aw I love this post, those cookies do look pretty rough LOL but I bet the birdies LOVED them.