* Take one cookie press bought from the CS at a bargain price.
* Gen up on how to use one.
* Study recipes for cookie press cookies, spritz dainties, Swedish butter cookies and pressed butter cookies.
* Tut, tut at the amount of butter and sugar going into the bowl.
* Make the dough and put it in cookie press.
* Find that the dough is too thick to squeeze out of the holes so add another egg and a bit of milk.
* Find that the dough is now too soft to use and it covers all surfaces of the cookie press plus hands, counter, spoon etc.
* Accept help of DH who insists that the dough should be softer still, adds more water and beats it up again.
*Wash up all utensils and start again with new softer dough.
* Smile inwardly when DH cannot produce a suitable cookie from the cookie press.
* Agree that giving up would be a good idea and spread all the dough onto 2 baking sheets and bake as two large biscuits!
* Pack up the cookie press ready to take back to the Charity Shop.
* Pack up the cookie press ready to take back to the Charity Shop.
I have not illustrated this post as I am too ashamed. ; )
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Thank you for the help with the hymns and if I've not already welcomed my new follower - welcome!
PS If there any volunteers out there who would like to add to the Bloggy Blanket please get in touch?
PS If there any volunteers out there who would like to add to the Bloggy Blanket please get in touch?
*chuckles* - I wonder if that's why it went to the charity shop the first time? maybe it's a repeat offender and has travelled charity shops the length and breadth of the country LOL
ReplyDeleteI had one very similar to this and I never managed to get it to produce anything even remotely like a cookie.
ReplyDeleteI always think gadgets create more work and take more time than they are supposed to save.I dont have many thankfully or they too would no doubt end up in the charity shop!
ReplyDeleteIsn't there a suitable dough recipe out there somewhere?? I don't bake so I can't help,,,,,sounds like you had a fun time!
ReplyDeletePriceless!
ReplyDeleteOne of those gadgets that seemed like a good idea at the time lol
ReplyDeletekaren x
Titters uncontrollably and teeters off to bed :)
ReplyDeleteThat brings back memories of the the metal one I had back in the 70's. Looked like a syringe and had screw on ends all different shapes similar to those you put on an icing bag. You pushed and the dough shpes emerged like magic. Only problem was they never ended up looking that way after they were baked.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure its still residing on the back shelf of some op shop in an out of the way suburb here in Melbourne lol
Take care
Cathy
Lol. IRYPT
ReplyDeleteCarolx
That's why gadgets often end up pushed to the back of a cupboard. I actually think you're being very unfair taking it back to the charity shop, someone else is going to end up with the same frustration. The least you could do is put a note inside warning them, lol.
ReplyDeleteFair comment. As I'm working there this afternoon I can warn them in person.
DeleteThen bring it home and put it in the bin!
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I hope someone does manage to get it to work. Sounds like a challenge.
DeleteLol! This is why I dislike gadgets - I can never get them to work!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the welcome. I love your Bloggy Blanket idea! Sadly I'm only a knitter and have never picked up a crochet needle... otherwise I would have loved to join the chain. Good luck with it and I hope it's on the move soon.
Sara, if you are a knitter you could join the Bloggy Blanket Friends where crocheted or knitted squares are sent to another blogger who sews them together to make lapghans. Just a thought. Have a look at the BBF page.
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Oh I must check it out then - I'd assumed everything was crochet only.
DeleteYou made two giant biscuits? Now that is something I like the sound of!
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