Oven of Suck

So, we're having a Christmas party potluck for work tonight, and we all had to sign up to bring whatever. I chose a dessert, which will be cookies. I made both chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies. The chocolate chip cookies went okay, but by the time I got to the sugar cookies, my oven developed severe temperature modulation issues. The recipe called for baking 10-12 minutes, but one batch was burnt by 7 minutes. Finally I ended up turning the oven off altogether, then turning it back on at a lower temperature and checking the cookies every minute for doneness. Ridiculous.

Oh, and I was lazy*, so my sugar cookies are not trees and stars and santas. They are circles. And I will give you my secret for relatively mess-free sprinkle cookies...roll your dough into little balls, keeping the ones you aren't baking in the refrigerator until they are ready to bake. Put sprinkles in a container (a paper plate works well), then take your little dough ball and squish the "top" into the sprinkles. Transfer to your cookie sheet. The sprinkles stay embedded on the cookie and don't go all over the place like they would if you poured the sprinkles onto the top of the cookie on the sheet. Plus excess sprinkles stay on the plate or other container.

* Actually, I was just super-pissed off after all my shapes got burnt in the beginning, and figured if I'm burning sh*t, it should be low-maintenance sh*t.

Posted by Jenelle at December 9, 2007 01:21 PM | TrackBack