cookie crisis

[fearlesstemp]

I am making chocolate chip cookies! Seriously making them, from scratch and everything. It's my contribution to Thanksgiving. I am also housesitting at the Scary Brownstone, and have discovered that although the Professors are culinary giants (they have invited me over for many a delicious meal), they do not appear to have a, whaddyacallit, mixer thingy you hold in your hand to mix ingredients. Maybe it's just called a mixer? A beater? ANYWAY. They don't have one. I've invested about ten minutes in searching, and am now trying to decide if it's worth the effort to keep looking or if the cookies can be made without one. They must have had cookies before electric mixers!

Or did they?

Also, I can't find a big mixing bowl. I have a bowl that I think might be large enough, but I hate it when you think the bowl is large enough and then it really isn't and Disaster Develops.

If I wait any longer, the chocolate chips will be gone due to excessive snacking on my part! They're so YUMMY.

Okay, one last search, and I begin! Any tips for a mixer-less cookie maker? The internet connection is in the kitchen in the Scary Brownstone; I await any and all helpful hints.

ETA: Mixer and mixing bowls found! I seriously think that an LJ entry is better than a Prayer to St. Anthony; the second I post about not being able to find something, I invariably find it and feel like an idiot for wasting ten minutes on an LJ entry on the subject. Off to make cookies happen.

ETA Part II: DAMMIT. I had put the chocolate chips into a bowl after measuring the appropriate amount needed (so as to see how much was snackable), and then made the poor choice of placing the bowl on the stove while the oven was preheating, and well, I just spent a few minutes eating some melted chocolate (yum!) but must now go to the store for more chips. More news as the cookies develop.

Comments

[suzy_queue]

I think it's called an egg beater. Do they have a stand mixer? They must, if they do that much cooking. Just, apparently, hidden. *g* Only tip I have is to stretch your arms out before attempting to beat by hand. LOL Helpful, huh? But you will be really sore otherwise. *g*

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Yes, an egg beater! I was looking for an electronic egg beater, and lo, immediately after posting this entry, I found it AND the mixing bowls. They were, no lie, within four feet of where I type this entry. I am not a good looker!

The name on the side is "Black and Decker SpatulaSmart" - I'm going to SpatulaSmart my way to some cookies!

Happy Thanksgiving, buddy, and I'm sorry about the Oprah thing - I meant to comment before but had to go clean.

[helenish.livejournal.com]

dude, you don't need a mixer to make cookies - you can just use a spoon or a spatula. Bonus: It is good for your biceps. Also, you won't overmix, so they'll rise better.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Right, I didn't think so! I cook so rarely that I tend to take the instructions in a recipe Very Seriously and when it says to put the mixer on a particular setting, I have a hard time thinking outside the recipe.

Thank you for the tip! I found the mixer but may try it by hand first if it will make better cookies.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

I don't have a mixer and it makes me cry, when I am making cookies. but then I melt everything that's all hard to mix and do the rest with a whisk and it's ... okay. But how I long for a mixer. LONG FOR ONE.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Dude! I totally took your advice last night when I was at my aunt's and could not find the mixer (I could find the whisk-like attachments, but not the actual mixer) but had to make more cookies, and melting the butter totally made the cookie-making possible. Thank you for the tip!

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

It's my sad little workaround but NO LONGER as I am HOME and my mommy bought me a MIXER! No more melting for me!

But it totally works for butter or vegetable shortening if you are without one. :)

[ladulcinea.livejournal.com]

Coooookies *drool*

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

They actually came about pretty good! They were all eaten, which was good at the time (it reassured me that they were actually edible) but bad now (because I want to eat some).