When to give up . . .

Ok, we do a family drawing every holiday season, mostly because we have a huge family, to see who we're going to buy for this year. I decided I wanted to make a candy/cookie dish for my lucky pick of the year. So I faithfully have been researching different recipes I wanted to do for the past 2 weeks or so. Prior to going to the grocery store this morning I wrote down the ingredients that I needed to get for each, several were simple fudge but one was a relatively complicated cookie recipe.

Ok, I make cookies at least once a week. Not necessarily for me to eat, though I indulge periodically, but mostly for the kids and hubby. So I know what cookie batter is suppose to look like, in general. So I look at this 'relatively complicated' cookie recipe approximately 50 times to make sure I get the gist of what I am undertaking and for the correct ingredients.

I make it to the grocery store this morning, pick up the ingredients, come home, make one batch of fudge (turned out nicely by the way) and proceed on my 'relatively complicated' cookies.

I mix the batter, add the nuts, white choco chips, crushed up heath bar . . . I look at it and even speak out loud to Justin "This is really moist for cookie batter, can you look up the recipe" . . . and I gave him the address. I looked at it for the 51st time and relented to the fact the batter was complete and went on to put them in the oven.

5 minutes later I open the oven door to check on my prize cookies and they are melted allllll over the pan, the cookie sheet . . . dripping off into the bottom of my oven. Yeah, not any cookie forms what so ever! Aaack!

This is when Justin got involved. We decided to put it into a pie pan and let the batter cook itself into solidification and just cut it and treat it like candy cuz it had a lot of candy in it. Yeah, it cooked for over an hour and never solidified. So Justin takes it out . . . pours the hot batter into a metal bowl. He mixes flour and water together in the blender and adds it and then keeps adding flour until is a little thicker. We put a singular dollop onto a cookie sheet . . . Yay, it somewhat reminds me of a cookie. Justin suggests putting it all into a cake pan and cooking it like brownies.

Right now the cake pan is sitting in the oven, the oven is still on . . . it's NOT solidifying.

When do you give up?