Let us please ignore the fact that I should be studying for my four finals that I have to sit for within the span of five days beginning Friday. Let us instead focus on the many sentences swirling around in my head which I would like to share with you.
A few months ago I was part of CBC's event called 'CBC Live!' It was a one day event where the public and viewers could meet their favorite CBC stars and hosts. I was excited out of my skin because not only do I one day want to walk the halls of this news corporation with a shiny tag that has my name and photo on it, I was overwhelmed by the fact that I was going to meet radio hosts and news anchors! I did so many tasks that day; hung up banners, tagged people in line, run around and offered buttons, gave directions to the bathrooms and a millon other things. I loved every second of it.
Not only did I get to meet all my favorite news personalities (Katheleen Petty is wonderful!), I left Rideau with a lot of free CBC giveaways. I managed to snag a laptop bag, a gajillion buttons, a t-shirt and a banner. Even though I would've helped out at the event even without the promise of a single penny, I was really grateful for the cheque that came in the mail a few days ago.
Alice and I went to Rideau last week and though I was tempted by the amazing clothes at Urban Outfitters and Aritzia, I resisted. I went against Alice's logic of "You're not paying for anything! It's all on CBC!" I walked away with the cheque intact.
I went to Wal-Mart over the weekend with the sole purpose of getting ingredients to bake chocolate chip oreo cookies that I saw on Hilary's blog. You may notice that I seem to have been bitten by a baking bug, and I think it's more of a baking disease. I dream about cookies and frosting, it is quite unhealthy.
When I saw those cookies, I simply knew I HAD to make them. After I had all the ingredients in my cart (plus two pepperoni pizzas and air freshener) I went to the kitchen electronics aisle and browsed for hand mixers. I've always wanted a hand mixer because after stirring cake mix by hand for 14 times I have come to the conclusion that I do not have wrist muscles.
I walked out of Wal-Mart a proud owner of a hand mixer, six minutes of deciding between the four different kinds they had.
I started baking cookies when I got home and halfway through the process I discovered every wannabe baker's nightmare: I did not have a bowl big enough for all my ingredients.
Long story short, I had to make do with my tiny IKEA bowl and use the hand mixer with the bowl in the sink so that I would not spray butter and sugar all over my counter top, it was the most excruciating experience ever and I almost cried.
But I got over it, the cookies were baked and once I took them out of the oven I discovered mistake number two: I put too much cookie dough over the oreo. It resulted to giant-like cookies and though they were good, I was not satisfied.
On my way home today I went to the grocery store and bought myself the biggest mixing bowl they had. It's pretty big.
(Notice the CBC banner on my wall. Obsessed much)
So I tried baking the cookies again tonight. And I won the cookie battle.
They came out perfect, and though the recipe said it would make 24 cookies, I ended up with 32 chocolate covered oreo cookies and even had enough leftover cookie dough for 14 plain chocolate chip cookies. It was a successful second attempt.
I recommend this recipe to anyone who has time to kill and needs to pound out frustrations on dough.
Back to the books. At least I have cookies, what do you have?
2 hellos.:
i saw this recipe on tumblr!! does it taste heavenly? *drools xD
yes yasmin khadijah made it 4 us its really nice i had about 4 of them lol
it goes really well with milk 2
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