Vent – Cookie Baking Fail

Last week I was at the grocery store and they had packages of cookie mix on sale. It was such a great price that I purchased two packs to keep on hand when I needed them. Normally I bake our cookies from scratch, but every once in awhile I get pressed for time and will use a pre-packaged mix.

For the purpose of my RANT today I won’t mention the “brand” of cookie mix that I purchased but let me say this…it sucked! Royally, sucked!

On the package it stated to bake at 375 degrees F for approximately 8 to 11 minutes. Well, that’s falsehood number one. Way too high of temperature.

The second falsehood stated on the package said to place them on an ungreased baking sheet. Okay, I normally spray my baking sheets with a little bit of non-stick spray. I listed to the package directions and used none.

Oh, while I’m at it. There’s nothing wrong with my 2 year old oven! My hubby works on appliances for a living. After this fiasco he put his probe in the oven to take the temperature and it read 369 degrees F. It was actually 6 degrees shy of the 375 degrees printed on the package.

Well, after only 5 minutes of baking time my cookies were burnt! Yes, burnt! Not only were they burnt I had to practically jackhammer them off of the baking sheets. Two baking sheets totally ruined and into the trash can. Oh my gosh!

Needless to say, I fired off an email to the corporate headquarters for that particular brand as their package instructions are a mess! I’m an experienced baker and I know what I’m doing. The temp is way too high, the baking sheets need to be lightly greased and they definitely shouldn’t sit in the oven for 8-11 minutes when mine were burnt to a crisp at 5 minutes!!! WTH!!!

I certainly won’t be buying their pre-packaged cookie baking mixes again. Back to making our homemade cookies from scratch!

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