I realize it's been far too long since I've posted. However, I did say that this sub-blog would be erratically maintained. Thus, I now present the long awaited new craft I have reviewed. It comes in bright yellow packaging with festive Christmas trees and Candy Canes on it....and I was very disappointed in it. What am I referring to? Nestle Toll House's Christmas Shapes Chocolate Cookies.
I bought the package because they looked so easy to make. All you had to do was take the 12 pre-cut cookie shapes out of the dough and put them on a cookie sheet. I made 4 extra cookies with the "scraps" from the dough sheet. Easy enough. I popped everything into the oven. My older son (OS) had been the one in charge of placing the cookies on the sheet and was eagerly awaiting the decorating part. In the mean time I looked over the package again for decorating directions. That's when I realized I had been bamboozled. On the package they show white and red frosting on the candy cane cookie. However, only red and green frosting comes in the package. They also show sprinkles on the ornament cookies. Again, sprinkles were not included. "Oh, well," I thought. "We'll be fine without those things." Indeed if you look at the end product, it seems obvious that the cookies were decorated by a toddler. I'm totally kidding. It looks like someone from the Chicago Art Institute decorated them.
OS was not able to squeeze the frosting out of the hole snipped in the corner of the frosting package without making a mess. This resulted in a temper tantrum followed by a mysterious rogue cookie flying through the air presumably with me as it's marked target. I was the one who got stuck decorating these cookies. I was not able to squeeze the frosting out of the hole snipped in the corner of the frosting package without making a mess either. Despite being a 30-year-old adult, my frosting efforts do not resemble the picture they labeled "decorating suggestions". Perhaps I should send Nestle some photos of my cookies and call them "mommy decorating suggestions." At least they tasted good.
A. Elliot's Ratings:
Ease of setup/cleanup (1-10 with 1 being most difficult): 9
Attention Getting (1-10 with 1 generating least interest; this excludes dogs): 4 |
Sounds yummy. I choose cookies based on taste not appearance.
-J