Today is spent an hour baking cookies as a surprise "payment" to my BF's mom for watching Char tomorrow and bailing me out of a deep dark tide pool. Finding last minute daycare is incredibly stressful.
What I learned in the process of baking these cookies:
When it say butter or margarine or something like that, I should use that. I tried doing 1/2 margarine, 1/2 coconut oil. While yummy, the VCO does not have the same consistency and does not hold all the parts together very well. I'm sure there is some kind of substitution method/rubric, but I was winging it.
Essential oil need to be mixed into the "liquid" portion of whatever I'm baking. This advice is given in every blog I've read so far, but I wasn't thinking about it at the time. I put in my EO when I would have put in extract, at the end, on top of everything else. So some of the cookies are VERY Lavender (which is fine and yummy), and some of the cookies are kinda Lavender (which is also fine and yummy, just more subtle).
When cooking with VCO, it will take twice as long. Well, at least these cookies did. I probably could have gotten away with a little less time, but I think it worked out okay.
There are some reasonably shaped cookies, which I will give, but most of them are nondescript mounds of hardened dough. The dough was very pilly because of the VCO, so it just didn't go together right and was very crumbly.
I have another recipe to try, but I need to grab a few ingredients, and I'm not sure when that will be. I have been going through a serious reality shock recently, and I need to get my finances in line with what may be on my horizon. So not alot of new projects for me, but working on getting stuff I already have going further down the pipe.
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