Mom’s cookie recipe betrayed me at my niece’s birthday party

I was at my sister’s house in Cleveland last Saturday, trying to replicate my grandmother’s molasses cookies that are always a hit, but I swapped the baking soda for baking powder by accident after a long week at work. The cookies came out flat and hard as rocks, and my niece asked why they looked like weird pancakes, which got a laugh but stung. Has anyone else had a baking mix-up ruin a family tradition in front of a crowd?

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mary_martin2228d ago

Baking soda and powder are essentially the same thing except they're not, it's a trap. Your niece's pancake comment is brutal but kids say wild stuff without meaning harm. Did the kids at least still eat them with extra frosting or something?

rosebarnes25d ago

Honestly feel like this is getting blown way out of proportion. So you swapped baking soda for powder, big deal, the cookies came out flat, not poison. Your niece made a joke and everyone laughed, it's really not that deep unless you make it that deep.

scott.jana25d ago

So your niece turns baking soda into the Get Out of Jail Free card for flat cookies and suddenly we're supposed to pretend she's a baking criminal? Flat cookies aren't even a tragedy, they're just sad little discs that still taste fine. I've seen people serve hockey pucks that somehow got called "artisan shortbread" and everyone nodded along. Your niece called the cookies pancakes, which is funny because pancakes are basically flat cakes and nobody panics about those. Next time swap the sugar for salt and then we can talk about real baking drama.

cole99428d ago

yeah @mary_martin22 baking stuff is like learning a secret code and one wrong move and you're on blast forever