Grabbing Stuff from My Kitchen
Okay so today I thought let’s bake cookies real quick since I had cottage cheese sitting in the fridge. Found this dead simple recipe calling for like seven basic things. Dug through my cabinets – flour, baking soda, salt, vanilla extract. Sweet! But wait… where’d my brown sugar go? Ended up using white sugar and mushed a tablespoon of maple syrup into it. Improvise, right? Oh and chocolate chips – only had half the bag left but whatever.
Throwing Everything Together
Dumped 1.5 cups flour into my chipped blue mixing bowl first. Tossed in that janky sugar mix plus 1 teaspoon baking soda and pinch of salt. Used my fingers to smash all the lumpy bits. In another bowl, smashed half cup cottage cheese with fork until it looked like lumpy glue. Added 1 egg and 2 teaspoons vanilla – kept splashing everywhere like always. Mixed this wet mess into dry stuff and stirred until my arm got sore. Folded in those sad chocolate chips last.
Hot Oven Action
Lined my battered baking sheet with greased paper while oven preheated to 350F. Scooped golf-ball sized dough blobs – got about 14 wonky looking ones. Flattened them slightly with wet fingers cause dough kept sticking. Timer set for exactly 15 minutes. Peeked at 10 mins – smelled amazing but centers looked gooey still. Gave em full time till edges turned golden brown. Pulled sheet out using that ugly floral oven mitt mom gave me.
The Finale
Let cookies sit for solid 5 minutes trying not to burn my tongue. First bite? Dense but soft inside like muffin tops! Sugar hack actually worked fine. Cottage cheese made them kinda bouncy – weird but good! Kids ran in saying “smells like bakery!” and demolished four each. Forgot baking time photos cause hands were sticky. Verdict: Messy counter, one less cottage cheese tub, and legit beginner-friendly cookies done under 40 mins total. Might add walnuts next time though.
