A review of Birthday Celebration Cookies!

ease of cooking:
ease of eating:

These cookies sounded so good, how could I not make them? Apricots and white chocolate - two of my all time favourites - melting together in unison in a big pile of brown sugar. Mmmm. Unfortunately, my dodgey supermarket didn't have the small white chocolate chips, only the slightly larger versions called "Melts", which looked pretty good on the packet so I bought them anyway. I followed the recipe very carefully, (none of the waferbaby tossing in of ingredients here) except for when it got to the part about dropping the rounded teaspoon fulls onto the baking sheet. I always do the ridiculous thing of thinking "but they will make such tiny cookies! Hmm… maybe I'll just add a little bit more". Apart from my wanton disregard of the instructions, it was also near on impossible to make dainty little scoops with these huge white chocolate chips sticking out, so largish globules it was. When cooking, the mixture melted out and spread to make alarmingly large cookies that had all kind of merged together into one huge cookie… it was becoming more like a "slice". And how did they taste? Sensational. I had made a large amount of large, sensational tasting cookies. I'm sure if you made teaspoons full (as suggested and as I now recommend) you would have heaps and heaps. I have given Big-P a tub full to take to work to share with his colleagues in the spirit of the Princess Meg oeuvre.

by loobylu
 

On Cookie Monster's Review of Rockin' N's review of Princess Meg's Cookies.

I liked what Cookie Monster wrote
He showed - or was it she who showed?
It's often hard to tell -
That s/he had read Meg's cookie notes
And (as one who loves to read and eat and cook),
Had understood them well.

The Monster knows the nuts and bolts
Of what you need to write a good review - (You *have* to tell
The reader how the cookies are to cook)
But also, and this matters more,
S/he smelt the smell
Of love for Meg and what she'd made
In every word of Rockin' N's review.

It's right to dwell
Upon the heart that beats behind the page: And Cookie Monster was mistook, I think,
to undersell
The loving tone of what N wrote
Which made it, in my view, a Four.

This error, though cannot dispel
The fundamental truth of Cookie Monster's words:
Four out of five, say I: It could have been a whole lot worse,
And only better if in verse,
Farewell!

by George Sherston