My First Cookies

I have never made cookies before...isn't that strange? Well, I guess I have to take it back chotto (a little), I have made cookies with friends or family who initiated the deal and told me what to do ... I don't know that it ever entered my head to make cool food items as gifts (mainly because I would probably mess up and have to buy something anyway). Anyhow, so I made my first batch of cookies today, 44 to be exact of peanut butter cookies that I am going to give away for Valentine's Day. Yes, they do celebrate it here although it is different; as far as I know the biggest difference is that girls give chocolate to guys (Don't worry guys have to give it back two-fold in a month in a holiday called White Day). I will explain more about Valentine's Day after it passes to make sure I have my facts straight... but I am really excited about these cookies. Half of them are crispy...well chotto (a little) burned; they were only in for 10 min. I had to try to fix them so I tried to melt chocolate to pour on them but it turned gooey and burned. So then I found that I had powdered sugar and poured it on, since Mary Poppins taught me that sugar helps things (like medicine) to go down in a delightful way, it can surely cure burned cookies. The other half I had to cook for thirty minutes and they are chewy. 30 minutes and 10 minutes for the same cookies?! I don't get baking...it just doesn't make sense. BUT by the time I leave here I will have made friends with the oven, in fact, we'll be best friends. Don't be jealous.