So this is it folks, day one, part one of learning how to bake in one semester. I thought I would start myself off with something easy, something that I couldn’t possibly mess up; something like cookies. Okay, so here’s my thinking, I have made cookies before, mostly with the help of my mom or my friends but usually they always turn out tasting good even if they get messed up. So by starting with this it might be good to raise my baking confidence right off the bat and to get used to some of the most basic techniques like separating your wet ingredients with your dry. Look at me go with these technical terms! So the cookies that I am going to bake first are going to be chocolate chip oatmeal cookies because they are my favorite. After making that decision I then took to my computer to do some research on what recipe I want to use and narrowed my options down to two. 
#1 Sallys Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
#2 Live Well Bake Often Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Both look really good and give very good instructions to follow for each recipe but they are both very different which is where my inexperience shines through because I don’t know what the difference in ingredients will do. Sally’s recipe calls for 2 large eggs and a tablespoon of molasses and Live Well’s calls for 1 egg and doesn’t have molasses. I am not even sure what molasses is, and I have no clue what it might do to the cookie but because I am curious and because of how good the cookie looks in the picture, my gut is telling me to try Sally’s recipe and hope for the best.
I am confident that next week is going to go well. I have good instructions, a solid recipe, and some experience in baking cookies so I feel as though the odds are in my favor! Lets hope I’m right.
Tune in next week for the results and to see how it went!
