Emilee's Bake of Shame

You would think. You would totally think wouldn't you! You would think...that by this time I would know better. I Emilee, a Pinstrositier WOULD %^$#*&^% KNOW BETTER!!!

 But alas, apparently I do not. There is something to be said about humility. 

And this experience has definitely given me my fair share (and then some). Here I am the co-creator of a blog all about how to NOT have Pinterest fails, and I break the cardinal rule of Pinning.

 I tried a pin without reading the directions. 

I hope all of you are laughing at me right now, because if I was a third party totally un-involved reader, I would be busting a gut and super excited to see what is about to be presented to me. 

So here it is, my bake of shame. 

I was invited to a cookie exchange at Marquette's sisters house, and decided to try a totally new recipe. One I had seen on Pinterest (famous last words).

**I would like to add that I am ADMITTEDLY NOT a baker, not in the least. Cooking is great grand and fantastic, but baking is not generally not my thing.

May I also add this is went down at 11:30 at night after a LONG day and I was exhausted?! Well it was, and I was. So add that in for another excuse yeah?

"Enough blabbing!! Show us the pictures Pinstrosity lady!!!" (Cue impatient blog hungry mob...jk jk, but no really.)

The Original

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/04/andes-mint-cookies.html?showComment=1323739192245

Andes Mint Cookies, I am a Andes Mint JUNKIE. Like really, I hide wrappers and everything, and I may or may not go to Olive Garden just for the after meal complimentary mint, or seven.

So this GENIUS recipe calls for a Devil's Food Cake mix, Andes Mints, and the usual baking stuff; eggs, and oil. Tada, that's it!

Now, what you all have been waiting for:

The Pinstrosity

"They look like mini cakes?!" 

What's that you say?! They look like mini cakes? Hmm, well that's because they are.

I am a doofus.

I didn't even look at the recipe.

Nope totally didn't even glance.

I read the ingredients, made sure I had all that I needed, and I did, and just went to town like I was baking a freaking cake.

I had just finished mixing the "batter" and realized my mistake, and in desperate not-wanting-to-go-to-Wal-Mart-at-midnight fashion, I stuck them in the oven anyways, just in case they were awesome and it was a new miracle awesome cookie recipe sent down from the blessed cookie gods.

They weren't. 

At all.

Awesome.

So I dragged the honey with me to Wal-Mart at midnight, picked up a single box of cake mix, and headed home for round two.

At which point I READ THE &&%$# DIRECTIONS and got to work on the real cookies, which actually turned out awesome despite my perils from earlier that evening.

They were DELICIOUS! I didn't have a single one to go home with after the party, Success! Redemption (kinda)!

The trick?

I assumed that because I was using a cake mix I would mix it just like the cake ingredients and all.

Wrong. Wrong.Wrong.Wrong.

And as irony would have it the trick to this was later told to me at a church function by a 16 year old young lady who makes her own cookie recipes. At this point I feel about this big. Murphey's law this would happen 24 hours AFTER the cookie party.

I had humitliy for breakfast lunch AND dinner for the next tow days. I know we will always be our most demanding and most harsh critic, but on this one I think I deserved it.

She told me if you add 1/2 cup oil and 2 eggs to (almost) any cake mix, it becomes a cookie mix.

And if you have done it right, your dough should look something like this:

NOT this:

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/betty-crocker-or-pillsbury-cake-mix/question-2029755/?link=ibaf&q=&imgurl=http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002029755/5036634256_17448_licking_cake_batter_bowl_xlarge.jpeg

The moral of the story. Don't assume, read the directions, and don't bake past midnight.

I hope you enjoyed my serving of humble pie, and I hope I won't be having anymore for a while.

For new Pinners who are timid towards trying new things, don't be afraid to make a mistake, you may feel like a doof for a day or two, but in the end we have ALL been there done that. 

Happy Wednesday Pinstrosipeeps!