Baking Fail x 4!

So, this is probably karma because the other day Billy told me he would never make cookies and I told him they were easy. So now I have ruined 3 batches of cookies and a batch of cupcakes. Don't worry, I am undeterred and I have back-up eggs & butter. Might need to run to the store for some sugar though.

Accidentally doubled the almond flour in my mocha macaroons without doubling anything else (and forgot about them in the oven while I was helping Kristy with her dress). They came out something like a chocolate biscuit. Would be delicious with coffee or crumbled into ice cream, but were very, very dry for a stand-alone cookie.

Then I made some sunbutter to use in place of almond butter in some chocolate chip cookies. Well, the grapeseed oil (which is green) somehow didn't mix well enough or something, so there were odd green flecks in the cookies. Not so appetizing. Aaron thought they tasted weird and Mike thought they tasted like some sort of power bar. Not the kind of glowing review I was hoping for.

Next I tried making some coconut flour linzer cookies. I apparently gave poor directions to Aaron so he creamed the oil & butter together then added the eggs - no sugar - so we added some sugar late in the recipe, and then possibly way too much coconut flour, because no matter what we did, the dough was too dry and crumbly to roll out. We tried adding more eggs and some water, but it stayed a dry mess. It did taste good though! We put it in the fridge to maybe salvage later. I really wanted to make those cookies but I am not sure this failure was all our fault.

Not learning from the last three failures, I started in on some cupcakes - which I have made twice before. Ought to be a slam dunk. Forgot to add the honey. I think I just made some lemon vanilla breakfast muffins...

I will try again tomorrow.

Cookies update - updated

Sounds like we'll have lots of delicious cookies. Aaron and I built some beautiful dessert stands to hold them, but I don't think we'll have room for all of them.

Made from thrift store platters & vases + epoxy

Taken:
Grandma and Aunt Pam are bringing Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Aunt Anne will bring Gluten-free Peanut Butter cookies!
Jenny and Aunt Gwen are bringing Walnut Crescents, Peanut Butter Brownies, and maybe Oatmeal!

I'll be bringing
Mocha Macaroons,
Coconut Flour Linzer Cookies,
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip, and
hopefully Lemon Cookies/Bars.

And I also hope can find some black sprinkles to decorate Aaron's sugar cookies that Kristy bought him for Christmas (they're Beaver cookies).

Suggestions:
Chocolate chip
Oatmeal cranberry
Peanut butter (Aaron's favorite)
Snickerdoodles
Shortbread
Ginger snaps
Gingerbread
Molasses
Sugar cookies

Dresses finished

The dresses are finished. I told Laurie I would mail hers to her, but I'm not sure it's necessary. And the ruffle hem was voted down, so there's nothing left for me to do to them.

I hope they like them. If you're curious, there are videos on what those long straps are for here.

We might be geeks

Our wedding required the purchase of a tool. If a project requires a tool, it's a valid project. In this case the tool was a soldering iron, which is not nearly as cool as the saw he bought for the last project, but oh well.

This is Aaron soldiering LED leads to pennies, which he has pre-heated in our toaster oven. He is about halfway done with the LEDs and batteries for our 43 paper lanterns.