short and sweet

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So, I'll keep this entry short in sweet because otherwise I have a tendency to not ever post it or to save the draft for the rest of time (i actually have one draft saved right now - it is my goal to have it up by the end of tomorrow before I get my wisdom teeth removed!). On to the topic!

On the 17th of July, the library I work had a bake sale, part of the Great American Bake Sale campaign founded by Share our Strength. I was the organizer and was looking for a way to thank the individuals who worked the bake sale table with me on that hot July afternoon.

I know that all except one of the people seem to really liked baked goods/food. It seems my usual go to thank you baked gift is a rugelach cookie (though I use lingonberry preserves as the filling instead of the apricot, walnut, and raisin filling). And by go to gift I mean I've in for 2 times - for three people who wrote letters of recommendation for me. It seemed like it was time to do something different.

I wanted to make something that would hold up a couple days as we have some people who would not be there on the first day I baked them because we have some slighty different shifts to cover the library hours. So, the tried and true Alton Brown's Chewy Cookies recipe seemed the way to go. Unfortunately, I had to wait to later in the evening to make them and as it was closing in on bedtime when I put them in the refrigerate, I got a little impatience. I only let them chill for 45 minutes, then put them on the pan and put them in the freezer for a few minutes to speed up the chilling process. You could say this wasn't that successful and you might be right. What I found was that underchilled cookies with cook too fast on the bottom - which means I was left with 16 burnnt bottom cookies. Half the dough was not enough to make the rest of the thank you cookies. Now what?

Necessity is the mother of invention. I'm not quite your what put it in my head, but the idea that came to me was for making a cookie cake out of it and then I could give them slices. Let's just say I cut a slice or two for myself and that I found them possibly delicious. Also, this post did not end up being very short, did it?

In conclusion, cookie cakes are awesome. I wish I could pretend they were one cookie and therefore rationalize eating the whole thing by myself. Alas, even I cannot delude myself into that. Happy Baking!