There Will Be Cookies

Last week I wrote about muffins. Now let’s talk about cookies.

I’ll be going to Young Women camp pretty soon (that’s our church’s annual girls’ camp). We have a family in our ward with celiac disease,* and I’ve been prepping some of the food, so I wanted to make some GF cookies to have at camp. Gluten free baking is super finicky - I already knew this from general research, being told by my GF friends, past attempts at baking, and from a time when my doctor had me go off gluten for a while - so I was aware that I’d likely be dealing with flat cookies and some trial and error. Here’s how the baking evolved over time:

First batch

Third batch

So the good news is… things got better. After the first attempt, I added more GF flour blend and chilled the dough a little longer. Then after the second attempt, I again added more flour, and chilled the dough even more. I think my third attempt was as good as it was going to get.

But… since I always have some sort of catastrophe when I bake (GF or not!) I accidentally doubled the sugar in the cookies, so I decided to double the batch rather than throw out the dough and start over. I could have gotten away with a simple dozen cookies, but instead, I made 80. And I have to laugh because these are the kinds of problems I create regularly. Who accidentally bakes 80 GF cookies? Me!! I do!!

And I could just say, “Okay, everyone gets GF cookies at camp this year!” and that would be fine. But nah! I already baked 80 regular cookies for camp. So now we have cookies coming out our ears! And since I don’t want to eat another cookie as long as I live, I’ll probably be donating a portion of the cookies to the Young Men.

*The “C” in celiac is not capitalized, just in case you ever wondered. There is also not an “S” at the end. These are the things I Google whilst bathrooming.