Flour, chocolate chips, a mixing bowl; these are some of the ingredients to make a batch of cookies. Most people believe the process is simple enough; you mix the ingredients to make the dough, and then bake until it becomes brown. I thought it would be near impossible to mess up until one fateful day. Who knew that making chocolate chip cookies would go so terribly wrong? I can say that this was definitely a memorable day in my life. It was a Thursday night, and since the next day was Friday; I thought I’d bake some cookies to give to my friends. It was just my way of celebrating the upcoming weekend. There were many factors that contributed to what happened that day. The first was that I didn’t realize that when making cookies, the dough would be thick, which was different from the more fluid cakes batter that I was more used to. The second factor was the electric mixer I was using had two buttons. One of which was used to take the blades out and the other was the on/off button. Unfortunately, I get the two mixed up a lot. Third, I insisted on baking alone, so no one was near. Lastly, I was multitasking, which got me distracted. All of these factors ultimately resulted in …show more content…
Since I was expecting it to be watery, I took out the electric mixer to make the dough into what I thought it was supposed to be. The sticky dough got stuck in the blades of the mixer and I put my finger in there to take it out. This is when I pressed the on button which I did not expect to be there. For a spilt second I just stared at the tip of my finger the moment before the blood began oozing out. Everything started getting dark so I called out for my mother weakly. In a daze, I stumbled to the sink and ran my finger under the water. With my blurry vision it looked as if the sink was letting out blood instead of water. Finally I lost consciousness completely and the last thought I had been that I was in a
Madelyn McQueen - Twin Falls Idaho Have you ever wondered how the delicious, classic treat came to be? Well, any event you can think of after the date of 1938, the cookie was bound to be there. Several stories about how the country’s favorite baked good came to be, have been spread and believed by thousands. For example, Ruth Wakefield unexpectedly ran out of nuts for a regular ice-cream cookie recipe and, in desperation, replaced them with chunks chopped out of a bar of Nestle bittersweet chocolate. Another story is said that the vibrations from an industrial mixer caused chocolate stored on a shelf in the Toll House kitchen to fall into a bowl of cookie dough as it was being mixed. Sadly, all of these stories are false, says Carolyn Wyman in her recently published “Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.” In her book, Wyman offers a more believable version of how the cookie came to be. Wyman argues, that Ruth Wakefield, who had a degree in household arts and a reputation for perfectionism, would not have allowed her restaurant, which was famed for its desserts, to run out of such
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and the amazing success the company has experience over the years could be loosely summed up as a story that began with two friends coming together with a vision to create a company that did not adhere to the traditional corporate rules of running a business. They both had certain ideals and a socially and economic responsible opinion on how a capitalist business should be run. There are a lot of similarities in the way this company is run and operated when compared to South West Airlines. They are of course offering two different things to there customers, South West providing a service where Ben and Jerry’s are providing a product but the way that they go about there daily business in the spirit of treating people a certain way, and setting out to complete a different kind of vision then say a more traditional company would is very similar.
I was getting very exited and was ready to see her results but then, she started making her No-Bake cookies and my excitement went away. She states that all of her ingredients were already at hands reach and her materials close by. But I could not see them. Only thing that was visible was the saucepan on the stove in the background. And what I believe to be a gallon of milk and a bag of all purpose flour, I am not entirely sure because I could only see parts of
Traditionally, Twinkies are usually thought of as cream-filled yellow sponge cakes. To Chinese Americans, a different image is conjured. When Chinese Americans integrate with the American culture so much that their Chinese culture is much less apparent, they are known as “Twinkies”: yellow on the outside and white on the inside. In Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” and Elizabeth Wong’s essay “The Struggle to be an All-American Girl”, both girls are Chinese American trying to fit in with the American society while their Chinese mother’s are very traditional at home. Tan and Wong are trying to please their image in America and their mothers at the same time. While these essays are similar because they focus on the native languages used in America and the struggles of being a Chinese American in America, they differ in both their attitudes toward their mothers and personal reflections of being Chinese American.
Opening the refrigerator door, I locate two ingredients: eggs and butter. Grabbing the ingredients, I place them on the island sitting vertically in the middle of my rectangular kitchen. I then walk around the island to a cabinet to find baking powder and vanilla extract. Scanning and searching through all the spices and other items, I see the desired components. Finally, I walk across the kitchen to a cabinet standing high on my tippy toes because the protruding countertop makes the cabinet hard to reach. In this cabinet, I find the flour and sugar. I examine all of the goods on the island. The ingredients needed for a sugar cookie recipe, I have made countless times for the last five years.
(MAIN POINT 1) The very first step to making the most delicious, homemade chocolate chip cookies is gathering the necessary
Cookies are traditionally made by combining the ingredients listed and adding something like chocolate or nuts. The cookies are then baked at around 375 degrees for about eight minutes or until they are golden brown. They are then allowed to cool and then they are served.
Many of people have tasted chocolate chip cookies, but many don’t know how it’s sweet taste was discovered. In 1928 Ruth Wakefield made a delicious discovery. One day, she was baking a batch of her butter
Chocolate made the journey from Mesoamerica to Spain, and then to other European countries, including England. Not long after the sweetness was tasted in London, it traveled across the Atlantic to the North American colonies. It is possible to have traveled there directly from Jamaica after the island had been seized from Spain. However, the most genuine explanation is that high Colonial officials carried it with them when they were assigned to their administrative posts in Virginia and Massachusetts.
As I picked up a cookie and blew on it, the hot chocolate chip on top got stuck on the tip of my fingers. I licked off the melted chocolate chip on my fingers and took a little bite into the rich soft chocolate chip to fully enjoy it. The smell of the chocolate chip cookies filled the air in the small kitchen then eventually escaped into the living room.
...we found the bodies, yet the crashing blue-green water spins me into a reality that is worlds away from the sight of stiff men. I'm not sure if this is healing or forgetfulness; all I can be certain of is the bite of the water on my skin and the dropping sun. I stare at my hand under the surface of the water, fascinated by how far away it looks and by the deep blue color of my fingernails. That hand isn't a part of my body, how can it be, it is deep in the water, opening and closing experimentally as water crashes on top of it. I want to leave it there, forever feeling the numbing water, forever fighting the currents that would wash it out to the Pacific Ocean. But then my arm moves, lifts my hand, and I realize it is mine, as are my legs and toes and wet matted hair. And the water keeps falling, pounding, rushing and I just stand there, staring, watching, waiting.
On the other side of the room was M'gann who was baking cookies for everyone and there was also Conner who was attempting to put cookie batter onto the tray but instead of placing batter on the tray, he flicked the batter onto the wall.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream was founded on the corporate concept of linked prosperity, interrelating a three-part mission statement to focus their company’s growth. Their mission statement, which covers their product, economic and social goals, focuses both the leadership and the workforce on their key values. These values include staying in touch with the customer base, using quality ingredients, maintaining profitability and maintaining social awareness and accountability.
Have you ever wondered how the chocolate chip cookie came to be? Have you ever
The three chocolate chip cookie brands tested were Chips Ahoy!, Keebler’s Original Soft Batch, and Cub Foods brand. The three brands were rated on a scale from one to three (three being the best, one the worst) on their flavor, chewiness, and appearance. To score a three on flavor the cookie had to taste delicious and melt in your mouth like ice cream outside on a hot summer day. To score a three on chewiness, it had to be very soft like dough and take a long time to finish. Finally, to rate a three on appearance the cookie had to be very appealing to the taste tester and look delicious to eat. The brand of cookies that scored the highest in each category, I crowned the best chocolate chip cookie in America.