Hairy’s Blue-Green Alien Cow Patty Cookies – A Cautionary Tale

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So Hairy’s bday is today. I have a few, fun presents for him, but I also wanted to try baking something he would like. He is a big fan of red-velvet-anything. Red velvet is not my fave, so I wouldn’t know a good one from a bad one ….. but I do know this: my cookies ended up looking like alien cow patties.

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Sorry about taking photos with the flash, but this was at 7 in the morning so there’s not a lot of natural night!

Yesterday, I was rushing to shoot photos and send samples to Michaels, and then I had a 2 hour time window to sneaky-bake before we headed down to Manda’s birthday dinner. I used this recipe for red velvet cookies from Joy the Baker (which is actually a Rachel Ray recipe) and this recipe for cream cheese frosting also from Joy the Baker. I was surprised that the amount of food coloring called for in the cookie recipe equaled a whole little squeezie-tube of food coloring. So. Much. Food. Coloring. But what I really liked about the recipe is that it’s supposed to be for 10 cookies, which is not a humongous amount of cookies to have to get rid of at the end of the day.

I am pretty sure I made my cookies too big by trying to use a 1/4-cup measuring cup as a scoop. Then I started using my hands, and, well, I wish I had three hands at the time, cuz I would have loved to have taken a picture of my hands covered in dark blue sludge.

So I figured if I made my cookies too gigantic, that they should stay in the oven longer, but this was a bad move, as my cookies ended up with an odd crispy crust on the bottom, with the tops of the cookies remaining fluffy and cake-like. Oops.

I have never made frosting before, so that was pretty fun. It actually tasted pretty good, even though I didn’t have time to sift the powdered sugar. After hiding the frosting in the fridge overnight with a sign on it that said, “Top Secret. Eat and Die,” I feel like I can taste the grainy-ness of the sugar. Boo. I hid the cookies in the craft room under a poncho. While wrapping Manda’s presents, I opened every window in the house to try to get rid of any cookie-baking smells or suspicious heat from the oven. It was actually pretty lucky that we had dinner with Manda, because Hairy had not much reason to poke around in the fridge, where there was a carton of BUTTERMILK <– very suspicious. At 7am, I frosted them and set them out by the coffee maker, only to realize, how truly hideous my cookies ended up.

Here is my friend Angel’s take on the matter:

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AHAHA! I love her.

Well, now you can see why I don’t cook. *salute*

15 Comments on “Hairy’s Blue-Green Alien Cow Patty Cookies – A Cautionary Tale”

  • Robyn

    says:

    Awwwww… poor cookies.

    I made Red Velvet brownies for work… and they were so delicious, I was asked to make more – so I wanted to make BLUE ones! They came out more of a teal color and I didn’t realize how much food coloring I put in… needless to say, more than one coworker was freaked out because stuff was blue when they went to the bathroom. So funny.

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      I also purchased a blue food coloring gel, but I didn’t really know what to do with it, and the recipe used regular food coloring anyway, but the whole gel thing is kinda intriguing!

  • Leanne

    says:

    Aw!! I think it’s great you still baked something even though it didn’t turn out to be a success. 🙂

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      I think they are ok if you close your eyes. hehheheh 😉 Thank you!

  • Natalie

    says:

    OK, Twinks. We are putting our heads together and we are going to find a way to make these come out perfectly next time.

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      HAhahahahaah THANK YOU. I wish I had a video camera on me the whole time. It would have made any baker wince a thousand times.

  • Alice

    says:

    Good for you!It sounds like you made a great present for Hairy! You gave your best effort and created something he would enjoy.That is the important part.

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      Maybe it will turn his poo green. That’s a fun gift, too! 😉 Thank you for the sweet comment 🙂

  • xandra

    says:

    if you just add rainbow sprinkles i think they would look infinitely more approachable 😉

  • tin

    says:

    I like the way you label stuff in your fridge 😛

  • Sami

    says:

    Am I insane for liking these cookies? :O

  • lemon

    says:

    I would still eat the crap outta those : D mmmmmmmm

  • lemon

    says:

    I would still eat the crap outta those : D mmmmmmmm

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