Hello everyone,
I was looking for some cookies today and could not find any in the house. How hard can it be to bake cookies? I like peanut butter cookies, I thought I would give making them a try. Turns out, it is a lot more work than I thought. If I had baked before, I might have been able to deduce that the recipe was sized to make four thousand cookies and I could have reduced it. I do remember watching my Mom make cookies when I was a young boy, and only when it was too late did I realize I should have mixed the butter and sugar first and not added the butter last. I broke the wooden spoon trying to mix the butter with the peanut butter, sugar and eggs. I got out Katarina's toy mixer, but it has no torque and was starting to give off a funny smell. I was running through my mind what power tools I had that could help with this. My DeWALT 300 RPM mixer drill was out on loan and my mortar mixing paddle would take too long to clean anyway. Probably for the best, the mortar paddle was not stainless steel, and who wants yellow paint in their cookies. I found my Makita cordless drill. I blew it off with the compressor and wiped it down. The mixer paddle was easy to chuck in the drill. I was able to keep the RPM low and after trying unsuccessfully to mix in the butter by hand for 15 minutes, I had it mixed in about three minutes. Since the mixture was quite thick, I also used it to mix in the flour and other dry ingredients.
I took a couple containers of cookies to my folks tonight for them and my sisters' family. I will be taking bags of them to work for the next little bit, so free cookies will be on the counter at Fed Tool for the next several years.
Thanks for looking,
David.
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