sweet cream

ATTEMPT #1
three nights ago was our first attempt to make chocolate chip cookies.
but we had no chocolate chips. 
so the cookies had to wait. 


ATTEMPT #2
our 2nd attempt was successful.
last night we made the cookies.


it was an interesting cooking backing sesh if i do say so myself. for starters we had no measuring spoons. hah. yea, that makes baking cookies a problem when you need to add minor ingredients like salt, baking soda, and vanilla. 
but no worries, we improvised by guesstimating with a regular spoon. (:

When i was hovering over the baker snapping pictures of this i was asked not to write about this embarrassing episode of having no measuring spoons; it might make the baker look bad. 

he later reconsidered.

another fun fact about our cookies was that we tried sweet cream butter instead of regular butter. I learned last night that sweet cream butter messes with the salt measurement-i thought that was interesting.

The reason why we used the sweet cream butter instead of regular unsalted butter was because that was all i had. 

it was all i had because when i was in Trader Joe's on sunday i need to buy butter and as i looked at all the varieties and brands of butter i had an urge to get sweet cream butter. i have always wanted to try it and it sounds so delicious. just say it... sweet cream. it just sounds good (it sounds even better if you say it with an English accent). 

ALL that to say, the sweet cream butter is overrated...and not the best to use when making cookies. I could definitely taste it when i was eating all the cookie dough when we were finished. 

the cookies ended up great! sweet cream butter and all!

at least i think so...i tend to be the only one eating them around these parts.