When you've got a small oven and lots of cookies to bake, there's little choice but to bake the cookies in small batches. Many small batches. My almost-keto cookie recipe yielded 19 cookies today (three overbaked, so only sixteen, really), and my Toll House recipe (nothing keto about these) yielded 30 cookies—one of which broke, so 29. I can put in one batch of eight on the oven's middle shelf. It's been killing me all day long not to ingest even a single morsel of cookie dough or even a baked cookie. Didn't even lick my fingers. I hope this restraint is earning me some good karma, but the fight against my fat and my metabolism is an eternal one. And I need to be as "clean" as possible for tomorrow's doctor checkup (well, I'm going to try to visit the doc tomorrow, but I can easily imagine him taking an extra day off to lengthen his Buddha's Birthday holiday, so I may have to go back on Wednesday).
The final batch of Toll House just popped out of the oven; I need to start wrapping the cooled-down ones. I've already wrapped all sixteen edible almost-keto cookies; once I've got sixteen of the Toll House ones wrapped, I'll be able to give away ten pairs of cookies to the grocery staff (assuming the store is even open today; today is the extended holiday for the Buddha's birthday), then go up to the lobby to give away four pairs of cookies to the concierge staff. I might have one or two extra pairs of cookies to give away; there's a basement-resto ajumma and ajeossi (married couple) who've always been friendly to me; if they're around, I'll give the last two pairs of cookies to them. If I had thought ahead, I'd have bought some tiny, little gift bags in which to place the cookies in along with a message sporting my face so they know who this "Kevin" is. Here are some some shots of tonight's cookies:
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| sixteen keto-ish almond-flour cookies, all in a row |
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| one keto-ish cookie up close |
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| Toll House cookies in a small tray, having oozed into the tray's corners, guaranteeing strange shapes. |
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| Lots of Toll House cookies. Did you notice the broken one? Yeah, that one's mine. |
In theory at least, I'll be giving out 16 keto-ish and 16 Toll House cookies tonight, which will leave me with zero keto-ish and 13 Toll House cookies. For lunch with the boss this coming Saturday, I'll probably make more batches of the cookies, plus a rum cake, but I might go gentle on the rum based on my Korean ex-coworker's negative reaction to the alcohol.
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