I have this habit of baking for my husband for special trips he takes. For example, when he went fall camping last month, I sent him with Snickerdoodles. A few years ago I made peanut butter cookies for him to take hunting. I've made sugar cookies once or twice as well. I like to bake this time of year!
So last night I attempted chocolate chocolate chip cookies, only I made them with peanut butter chips AND chocolate chips. They're fine, I suppose (hubs likes them), but they turned out as flookies.
What, you may ask, are flookies? Flat cookies. Flookies. Yep, that's what they are.
This term got coined while I was on a road trip with my non-biological sisters in August 2009. Kristy had made these cookies that were really tasty, but flat. I mean really flat. At some point, we stopped asking to be passed the "flat cookies" and started asking for the "flookies" instead. Thus, a word (or Phippsism, if you prefer) was born.
And now, apparently, it was my turn to make some flookies.
Again, they're tasty enough, I guess, but they just look so goofy, especially compared to the pics shown with the recipe (apparently using shortening could have helped, so say the reviews, but I tried just using butter). And it's even more amusing to me because I just read my friend Sarah's blog yesterday about the cookies she attempted where she had almost the opposite problem.
Why are some cookies just hard to make? They should be easy and tasty and wonderful! And yet, sometimes, you get flookies. Oh well. They'll still get eaten. :-)
So, anywhoozles, hubby will be going hunting this weekend (alas, yes, I am to be a hunting widow), so the puppers and I have big plans to do a whole bunch of nothing. Well, that's not entirely true. We're going to see my parents on Sunday, so I guess that's something, eh? I really don't like sleeping in the house alone while he's gone, though. Just feels so empty. I usually try to make Maxine sleep in bed with me for the company. We'll see if she puts up with it.
And now, I leave you with 5 random songs you should listen to today for fun. Why? Why not?
"Only Girl (In The World)" - Rihanna
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" - They Might Be Giants*
"In My Room" - The Beach Boys
"Love Is A Dirty Word" - Jason Collett
"End Of The Line" - The Traveling Wilburys
Personally, I like flat cookies. My favorite kind of chocolate chip cookies are rather flat and gooey - not cake like cookies at all. :)
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the cookie. Like I said, they taste just fine! I just was sad they weren't all fluffy and pretty like I thought they'd be. But, as I often say, it doesn't matter what they look like, as long as they taste good!
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