I am a horrible blogger....but a pretty good baker.

Although it is now Friday, I haven't posted since Monday. I feel horrible (well not really since no one reads this... oh well) I will divide this long post into days to make things a little bit easier.

Tuesday
On Tuesday I made the trek to Winn-Dixie to buy all of my baking needs. I decided to stock up so I didn't have to go back every day I wanted to make something new. One hundred and fifty dollars later I am fairly well stocked. I bought in bulk. Two and half dozen eggs and a ten pound bag of flour...

After unpacking all of my new supplies I turned into a human food processor to make craters. Craters are this chocolate and walnut cookie that has almost no flour. It seemed simple enough but half way through the walnut chopping I wanted to cut off my arm.

Once all the chopping was done these cookies were actually really fun to make. There is no diary in them at all (read: NO BUTTER!!!) Two eggs are used to make the dough sticky. Which makes them hard to shape. First you spoon out little piles of dough and then over the course of an hour you flip them upside down a couple times. During this process the dough becomes easier to form so you can make them into little balls, coat them in powdered sugar, and then pop them in the oven.

They were a big hit at the meeting I took them too. Several people were skeptical about the lack of butter in a baked good but the result was a wonderful cookie. It seemed almost like a grown-up version of puppy chow.

Wednesday
On Wednesday I decided I was too hot to turn on the oven. I found a recipe that called for chilling the dough over night before baking it. This lead me to a cookie called a tea cake. They are an old fashioned cookie that is very simple and has no salt or flavorings. It took absolutely forever to prepare the dough. I had to sift five cups of flour and then add the flour in five separate additions.

The result was a ridiculously sticky dough that was nearly impossible to handle. It took a lot of scraping to get the gooey mess into containers and then into the fridge.

Thursday
Once the dough was refrigerated I thought it would be easier to work with. I was totally wrong. It was a nightmare rolling it out and then cutting it. The cutting might have been easier if I had a cookie cutter. Since my sister doesn't own any I had to use a glass. The glass wasn't as big as the recipe called for so some of the cookies were over cooked. The cookies that were baked properly tasted pretty good but the over done ones (not even burnt.....) were too hard to bite into.

My verdict on these tea cakes is that although they can be very yummy they are in no way worth the two days of misery and dough fits that come first.

No pictures of the tea cakes. I got cookie dough all over the fridge, I wasn't about to get it all over my camera.