Cookie Request Line

At the request of my mother and my friend, I finally dove into the world of coconut macaroons. I don't have much experience with coconut macaroons. It wasn't until (very) recently that I could even stand the texture of coconut, so I had no idea what they were supposed to taste like, look like, or what the consistency was supposed to be like.

Needless to say I think they came out pretty well. Dare I say I'm in love? Coconutty, not too sweet, chewy tasty little treats. I may have to add these to my nonexistent cookie menu! I want to try to incorporate different flavors into them like lemon and chocolate. I may be on to something...


LCG

The ball method...

I tried something new today. I think I got the flavor I want down, but I'm still working on the appearance. I tried a new method I found on another blog where you roll the dough into a ball then roll dough into chocolate chips then bake it. To make this easy I'll simply just say...no.

It started out promising. I thought it would work...

This is how they turned out. Eh. A little dome-like for my taste. Im going to try the log/cutting method tomorrow. Hopefully it will be great!

LCG


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Want to make it good? Just dip it in chocolate...

My newest trial was a two day affair. It also once again didn't turn out how i wanted but that's just how it goes right? I wanted to give my cookies an edge so I asked myself..."Self, how can I make these cookies better?" Self told me to dip them in chocolate. So dip them in chocolate I did.

I tried to make a design on the plate. Tried. 

This is how they turned out. Eh. The chocolate was way too thin and never really dried. Just turned into this sticky shiny mess? I don't know why but I'll probably spend the weekend trying to figure out why and never do that again.

In other news I made some more cookies yesterday, all impromptu like, and they were very tasty. I'm still working on how to get them a uniformed size and shape but I found a cool trick on the interwebs yesterday I'm very excited to try.





Today I purchased some things to make me feel official. I bought a legit container to seal my cookies in. I found some nice containers for ingredients I'm going to get soon, I got two new Cuisinart baking sheets (offish, I know), these cute little boxes to put cookies in when you give them to people. They even come with presh little tags a la Martha Stewart. But the best purchase of the day is my super cute Stepford-inspired apron. 

That's me!

Now I feel like a baker! I plan on taking a trip to the farmers market tomorrow to gets some weekend inspiration. I'm itching to make another batch already! 

Until then,

LCG

Setting the bar high...

The first part of my cookie journey is research. Research includes researching laws, policies, permits, licenses as well as recipes. The first part should be easy enough, but the second part is the most fun.

I want to bake at least 3 times a week. Funds may not allow me to do more (bakin ain't free) but I'm going to do what I can. Today I had a crazy idea of instead of just plain old cookies, I want to make bars! But not just regular old bars, bars with caramel in the middle. Now I have never made cookie bars and I've never made caramel. But it seemed easy enough...you can decide yourself if it was easy enough.

Look like meat don't it?

This was my attempt at making cookie bars with a delicious caramel center. The first mistake was that i didn't have a small enough pan. Then i didn't have enough cookie dough for the top layer, the caramel was too thin blah, blah,  blah. They taste a lot better than they look. 

Now yesterday I made these bad boys 

Buttery, soft on the inside with a little crisp on the edges. Perfect amount of chocolate. Yum. They went like hotcakes. I think for now I will stick with the old fashion cookie. Maybe bars will come later. For the next trial (probs this weekend) I want to try some different flavors. Butterscotch you say?

Le Cookie Girl

That's the way the cookie crumbles...

My first post! I'm so excite. I am finally taking baby steps in my new career path. And when I say new, I mean 2 weeks, and when I say career path, I mean my cookie business. I don't have a name, a menu, or the funds to make this happen, but I really want to go for it. Let me introduce myself...

My name is Heather. I'm a 25 year old professional in the marketing business. At 25 I've had my fair share of jobs and honestly none of them have the possibility of turning into a career. I hate office life. I want something different. I want to work for myself on my own time. So I decided I wanted to start my own business.

How did I decide to start my own cookie business? Well that decision didn't come easy...

I originally wanted to start my own design/invitation business. But that idea lasted about a day. Then I moved on to baking. Whats popular? Cupcakes! But cupcakes are a lot harder to make than they look. So I thought about what am i already good at, that I can just improve on? What do people like that I make that I can take to the next level? My cookies. I have to say it, I make a mean chocolate chip cookie. So i decided I want to branch off that. Which direction I want to go in, who do I want to sell to, what kind of cookies I'm going to make...none of that has been decided yet. But that's the fun part! This blog will chronicle my trials and tribs of trying to break into the cookie business...wish me luck.

I value everyone's opinion! If you have thoughts, comments, experience, criticisms you would like to share, let me hear it!

Le Cookie Girl