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[mrissa]

On Wednesday, my mom is coming over to do Christmas baking with me. She's already made four kinds of cookies and more kinds of bread than I know about. I've already done two and will be making the lussekatter today.

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Time to start practicing!

Brownies, chocolate chip cookies, shortbread, biscuits: all things where the basic versions are excellent and completely within reach of a beginning baker.

If you've practiced your bad bakiness to the point where it's a fully internalized skill, I'm not so sure how to escape that.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

nah, it's not that bad. :) i actually make good mexican brownies and espresso brownies, and mostly bad cookies. also can't do pie crusts, but can do scratch cake. so i guess it's One Of Those Things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do you remember whether there's a consistent way in which your cookies are bad?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

That's a bit puzzling. Cookies are often pretty darned simple (though the only one I make is a two-day process and has *very* critical baking requirements). Well, if you can get brownies and actual cakes to work, I'm pretty confident you could learn cookies and bread and things if you decided to work on them for a bit.

I haven't baked in a decade or so (I've got Pamela around, after all), but my few tries at pie crust produced usable containers for meat pies (not in pie plates; baked on sheets, to be eaten out of hand, so there were some structural requirements as well as the culinary ones). *Elegant* pie crust is I'm sure harder; I've never tried for that. Huh; those meat pies were in a house I sold when I moved to MA in 1981, so quite a while ago now.