“Healthy” cookies?

[Grip_Maker's_Wife]

I browsed through some cookie recipes on the internet and came across a spice cookie recipe labeled as “healthy”. The ingredients all sounded good (whole wheat flour, oatmeal, ground flax seeds, mashed banana, molasses, spices) so they should all be good mixed together, one would think? I decided to try it. What could go wrong with a fat free low sugar cookie recipe?

When I took them out of the oven, the first thing that came to mind was that they looked like mini lumps of bear scat. After cooling and trying to bite into one (yes, I am a brave) the next thing that came to mind was the Rubber Biscuit song by the Blues Brothers. Not exactly a rubber biscuit, nor a ricochet biscuit, more like a these will “put a hole through the wall” biscuit.

Complete fail. Now, what to do with these? Give them to the neighbors’ kids to use in one of their street hockey games? Play a trick on John by dumping them on the lawn before he goes out there to mow it?

Anyone else have a recipe fail or kitchen disaster story?

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[blackdeuce]

LOL.

I have some of those in my backyard.

 

[6518John]

Jennifer--Our Mountain Feist who delights in eating the most fragrant road kill he can find--before we can jerk his leash--and in Arkansas in the summer time, I doubt would eat those cookies. The only thing I have ever seen him spit out was fresh Matzah (unleavened flat bread) a neighbor gave him one time on a bet with me.

 

[ACORN]

My dog makes those all the time.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Maybe you overcooked them?
Sounds like they have tasty ingredients.

 

[Peak53]

Cookies are cookies. Add butter. Add sugar. Enjoy in moderation. Go for a walk.

 

[arjay]

Tried to make amaretti fruita cookies last week.Googled up a recipe and,once again,forgot this place is high altitude.Figured on using marmalade on the centers.They all melted together and the marmalade burned through the bottom lol.They were still tasty after prying them loose with a putty knife [emoji1][emoji41]

 

[old bear]

Anyone else have a recipe fail or kitchen disaster story?

I don't have an "A" as in one kitchen disaster story. I've got a slug of them.

 

[Tyrod]

Can't make a good cookie without at lease a bit of animal fat

 

[vytoland]

if i crave a tasty cookie....i go to the local bakery.....

 

[JohnRippert]

Somewhere I used to have a picture of a freezer pizza that I overcooked "a little". My favorite humbling cooking experience was when I made stew one time and wanted to thicken the broth a bit. A massive brain fart caused me to add baking soda instead of baking powder. One ruined batch of stew.

 

[Dobie406]

I found the key to making "unhealthy" cookies less harmful was to eat lots of them all the time and build up a tolerance

 

[Rustyt1953]

When the kids were small Ruthie decided to experiment with a recipe she found. "Impossible salmon pie".

"It'll be great" she says.

"It'll be healthy" she says.

Red flags go up.

It was a fishy, veggie, quichie concoction.

As we sat facing one another Ruthie says "dig in".

It was like a Fellini movie: close ups of darting eyes. Lips being bitten. Ears perked hoping for the door bell and phone to ring.

Dramatic silence followed by the bite.

Shrill violins shatter the silence. Close ups of darting eyes begging ; "please don't let me be the only one".

"Well?" Answered by a trio of "it's ok". Which being interpreted by Ruthie as "we wish to disown you".

It is now a standing joke and the standard by which all kitchen disasters are measured.

 

[billwill]

Hey you could sell those things to a scat ID/outdoor tracking class. Cut into different shapes, use then eat. Wow..how enviro friendly is that?

 

[BC38]

When the kids were small Ruthie decided to experiment with a recipe she found. "Impossible salmon pie".

"It'll be great" she says.

"It'll be healthy" she says.

Red flags go up.

It was a fishy, veggie, quichie concoction.

As we sat facing one another Ruthie says "dig in".

It was like a Fellini movie: close ups of darting eyes. Lips being bitten. Ears perked hoping for the door bell and phone to ring.

Dramatic silence followed by the bite.

Shrill violins shatter the silence. Close ups of darting eyes begging ; "please don't let me be the only one".

"Well?" Answered by a trio of "it's ok". Which being interpreted by Ruthie as "we wish to disown you".

It is now a standing joke and the standard by which all kitchen disasters are measured.

We had a very similar situation one time. Barb made a ham-n-cheese-n-cauliflower casserole. It was not well received and it has become the standing joke for cooking disasters in our house....

 

[pawngal]

use 'em for target practice

 

[BC38]

use 'em for target practice

THERE you go - get rid of them Rooster Cogburn style!

 

[shouldazagged]

When my brother and I were in our teens we lived across the street from an elderly Russian Jewish couple. Mrs. K. was the only Jewish mother in history whose chicken soup utterly sucked--terrible stuff, like dishwater with a few lumps.

But she made a sublime fruit-and-nut strudel. The best I ever tasted.

My mother asked her for the recipe, and set out to make it. Hers was huge., the size of a fire log. It just kept rising and rising, and Mom's baffled frustration wasn't helped a bit by the fact that Gerry and I would walk into the kitchen, look at the growing monster, and laugh. She finally threw us out.

The finished product, which could have been christened by having a bottle of champagne smashed on the bow, tasted fine; but it emphatically was not a conventional strudel.

When Mom calmed down from all the laughter (Dad joined in), she asked Mrs. K. what she had done wrong.

"Oy," Mrs. K. answered, "didn't I tell you? That was the recipe for five of those things!"

 

[k22fan]

Waffles and pancakes would not be too bad for us if we could swallow them without margarine and syrup. I discovered a way that can be done. Cover them with thin sliced bananas then spread strawberry yogurt on top. I find my solution better tasting than butter and syrup. The only problem is that so far all other humans who have seen my concoction have been revolted by it. Does that count?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Waffles and pancakes would not be too bad for us if we could swallow them without margarine and syrup. I discovered a way that can be done. Cover them with thin sliced bananas then spread strawberry yogurt on top. I find my solution better tasting than butter and syrup. The only problem is that so far all other humans who have seen my concoction have been revolted by it. Does that count?

Sounds ok to me. Invite me to breakfast anytime.