Cookie Mistakes

Over the past few weeks my son and I have had several different ideas for baking the cookies for markets. One idea was that I would bake at his kitchen, and then we thought that maybe I should find a kitchen here and I would just be over the cookies completely.  A couple of weeks ago I went to bake and Nate put out a new idea that he would act as a co-packer. His employees are becoming more efficient so he was thinking that he could rent the kitchen for an additional day and bake most of the cookies that we would need for nearly any situation. That sounded good to me as that would free me up to work more storm work as a claims adjuster, a much more lucrative proposition.

We decided that I would come to the kitchen and go thru the baking process with Nate from start to finish. I went to the kitchen and walked Nate thru the Crunchy Cookies. He was really busy with other products but would come and look when he needed. Finally I finished mixing the ingredients and put the cookies on sheets close together and then popped them into the freezer as these would be a pre-formed cookie.

I then started the Chewy Cookies and was well underway when I asked my hubby to make sure the baking soda was out. OMG I realized that I had forgotten to put baking soda and salt in the Crunchy Cookies. We baked a few and found that they were not quite as good but would pass.

I told my hubby to put the salt and the soda in a little almond meal as we did not want to forget those ingredients again. He added the mixed meal into the mixing bowl and I started scoping the dough onto the baking sheets. Dale was putting the ingredients away when he looked at the two containers he had used. OPPS! He had actually gotten two containers of sea salt down and put some of each in, hence no soda but twice the salt. I did add some soda but we had one huge batch with no salt and one huge batch with twice the salt.

I told my son that I was showing him what not to do!