so that's what 250 cookies looks like

Not as impressive as you might think, unless you're a grumpy bastard who works in a bakery, in which case, probably exactly as impressive as you might think, which is to say, not very.

But they are baked, so the art show will have cookies. My contribution isn't going to be nearly as impressive as the catered trays from Carnegie, but as far as I know they had no other desserts coming, so at least no one else's cookies are going to show mine up.

Chocolate chip cookies always have your back, although the dough was oddly runny this time. The sugar cookies produced a more mixed result. (Mixed... I wonder how many cooking metaphors I'm going to inadvertently use in this post?)

I was feeling, as I say, very home-made compared to the catering trays, so I thought, well, I'll do something Artistic.

I thought, what's artsy and easy? Cookies of all different colours! I have some food colouring. Clever, simple, graphically appealing. Triffic.

Except that I only had golden brown sugar. Well, I figured, no big deal.

Yeah... okay, so, don't do that. Because the red dough comes out orangey-brown, and the orange dough comes out orangey-brown, and the yellow dough is pretty much the same. And the green dough is green and the blue dough is green, and I didn't dare make purple dough because purple plus yellow equals cookies the color of cement.

So I made orange cookies and green cookies instead, and to cheer them up, I put sprinkles in them -- little round gritty ones in the orange cookies, and multicolored stars in the green.

When cookies cook, of course, they turn a lovely golden brown around the edges. This is how you know they are done. In the case of the orange cookies, this was charming. In the case of the green cookies, it made them look like small Play-Doh models of the grassy knoll. They are exactly the green of low-tack painter's tape, studded with alarmingly heat-resistant stars.

I'm thinking maybe I'll go buy some carob squares from Uprisings, cut them into buffet-sized pieces, and call it a tray.

-rf