Smell that?
Mmmm…. It is the aroma of my yummy, homemade oatmeal raisin cookies in the oven. The smell is so intoxicating. Sooooo…. HOLIDAY.
Not that I plan to eat any of them. In fact the thought is so nauseating that at this moment I am feeling sick to my stomach.
No, I am not pregnant. (Why is that the first thing you people presume?) This actually happens every single year. Every. Single. Year.
I never, ever make it to the cookies. I only make it to the dough. Which is why I feel disgustingly ill at this moment.
You would think that I would learn. I mean, how old am I? (Don’t answer that.)
For whatever reason, each year I manage to devour 103 pounds of cookie dough before a single cookie ever makes it out of the oven.
Perhaps if I MADE the cookie dough it wouldn’t be so appealing. (Due to my lack of culinary skills.) Yeah. That luscious, scrumptious, yummy, homemade cookie dough is not even mine. It is actually my mother’s.
You see, for the past couple of years my mother has been delivering frozen cookie dough to me. Why? Apparently she is afraid of the consequences of JENNIEINTHEKITCHEN.
It must petrify her to the point that she goes through the trouble of creating pounds of cookie dough from scratch and portioning it out into freezer bags for my holiday usage.
For the record… I never really thought I was THAT bad at cookie making.
You follow directions. You measure it out. You cook it. Not hard.
Yet, apparently, frightening to my mother.
8 comments on Why I Never Make It To The Cookies. Ever.
Kate Collings
Jen you have me in fits of silent laughter (am holding sleeping youngling!).
I am the same when it comes to eating the dough, it’s just so scrumptious.
I must admit it is totally satisfying to lick the bowl after making the mixture from scratch – seriously give it a go. And try choc chip scones – YUM!!!!
Ok am salvating all over my laptop now.
Enjoy.
xx
Nancy@ifevolutionworks.com
I”m all about the batter and the dough. I never make it to the cookies because by then I’m completely ill from the dough sugar high 🙂
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Adrienzgirl
My kids and my hubs always eat all the cookie dough too. Me? I only like them when they first come out of the oven.
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DiPaola Momma
HA! you know cookie dough as raw eggs in it, right? Does that help? And hey it’s HARD to make a good cookie dammit! Don’t belittle my slaving away (aka adding eggs, butter and water to a Betty Crocker mix) in the kitchen to make the holidays special (aka put everyone in a sugar coma) for my family. Next year I’ll invite YOUR MOM to my cookie party.. maybe SHE WILL SHOW UP!!
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Jasmine
Did you say your mom DELIVERS cookie dough right to your house? Do you KNOW how lucky you are! For the first time in more than ten years, we are not giving cookie tins to all our neighbors because we don’t even have time to MAKE the dough, let alone get sick off it!
Im Pregnant Too
I remember back when I was pregnant around that time so I completely understand what you were saying!
Andi
I know exactly how you feel, you can’t help yourself while you are doing it, it tastes so damn good, but ugh you regret afterward when your liver is going through crisis mode and you have the strange sugar downer!
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Sarah Mae
{snort!}
Dude, I wish my mom brought me cookie dough! So really, not even *one* cookie…
Love your writing!
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