Day One Hundred and Thirty-Six

The Baker Learns New Tricks. And Fails.

Our Bible Study group is back in action after nearly a month off. People in Florida are different during the holiday season: they leave. And they don't come back for a long time. So we were excited to catch up and begin our journey through Galatians. And since everyone's a sucker for treats, I thought it would be a nice gesture to show up with a goodie (If they're not good though, do they call them 'badies?'). Ok, they weren't that bad, just not up to par with my expectations. The taste: brilliant. The display: buh! Here's what happened. Pinterest. I found these perfect creations while utilizing my recent obsession, and I knew I had to make them. Cheesecake chocolate chip cookies. Yum. So yum. And I decided to give it a go. Homemade graham cracker crust, homemade cheesecake. Homemade cookies. All delicious! When the crust came out of the oven, I poured the cheesecake filling onto the grahams. Then the recipe instructed me to "create teaspoon size balls" of cookie dough and to place them onto the creamy goodness. I did that. I thought. In hindsight, mine were more like tablespoon balls and the outcome suffered because of it. My pie went into the oven looking like this, and came out looking the same way?! The picture I was basing my recipe off of did not look like this! I assumed the cookies would flatten out and spread, like the image in the photo, but they didn't. So instead of a nice, evenly topped cookie layer, all I had to show for my hours worth of work were cookie lumps instead. I suppose there's some merit in this though. Next time I make these, and there will be a next time since they tasted so good, I'll cover the entire top of the cake with small cookie balls, each ball touching the other balls, and I'll have a cake worthy of bragging rights. Until then, Adam's stuck with awkward bites of delicious chocolate chip cookie cheesecake....and I think he'll do just fine.

And I got another Project Life idea that I thought would be fun to add to our days. Something called "Overheard." When you marry someone as entertaining as Adam, you're bound to hear a few things that should never be forgotten. Tonight, his genius one-liner went a little something like this:

"I'd be so fat if I wasn't skinny."

P.S. This is what they were supposed to look like. Why does everyone make things look so easy?! UH!