If you know me in real life, you know that my family has a thing about chocolate chip cookies. The past few years, I have shamed the family name with ridiculously bad cookies.
They burn, or they go flat, or they're too cakey, or I forget some key ingredient (I know, I know).
But tonight, I made cookies and it was just like old times. They worked like they are supposed to for the first time in probably, seriously, four years.
I decided that I owe it to the cookie sheets. You know, those heavy, aluminum cookie sheets? I finally have two of them, just like my mom has, and her mom, and hers...
For the longest time, I told myself that these cookie sheets were hard to find, but then I got one at my bridal shower and decided to just scope out the baking section of my favorite Springville Walmart during a routine perusing, and what did I see but the good old fashioned Nordic Ware cookie sheets of my dreams, and I bought one to complete my budding set.
Ten dollars for one. Now I know they aren't hard to find, it was just hard for me to spend ten dollars on a cookie sheet while living with the risk that a roommate might ruin/steal it (and let's be honest...)
But this new roommate I have, he's not much of a baker. And he isn't moving out at the end of the semester. So we're allowed to have ten dollar cookie sheets.
Three cheers for cookies that would make mom proud!
