Can I borrow some eggs?

After I made my fabulous tuna and hummus wraps I decided to move onto something a little sweeter.
I won't try to deny it, I didn't make these from scratch. I bought a Betty Crocker box of cookie mix (as mentioned earlier) because I wasn't ready for two failures in baked goods quite so soon.
So I set up my ingredients for what I needed, only to realize that the cucumber disaster had come back to haunt me in the form of no eggs! Unlike the cucumber, I definitely needed the egg for this recipe, so off to Woolworths I went...again.

Being such a typical girl I didn't buy just the one thing I needed, and instead I came back with an extra two cooking magazines, they were only $3 each - don't judge me! But the important thing is I didn't forget the eggs this time.

 This recipe is incredibly simple so there was no way I could screw it up. I preheated my oven to 180 degrees and put my ingredients in a bowl. Here you can see the Betty Crocker mix plus my BYO ingredients, butter & an egg. 

The recipe asked to mix with my hands. The bowl was definitely an awkward height and trying to set up a camera to photograph your greasy cookie hands was a challenge, but the feeling was awesome! So squidgy and delicious. I had to have a taste (I washed my hands after, don't stress!)

The next step was to squish them into little balls and press them down with the spoon. I had heaps of batter so I did this on two separate trays rather than form one giant cookie - actually that's not a bad idea. Maybe next time!

I had to cook them for 13-15 minutes depending on the oven apparently, and at the 10 minute mark I noticed that they were looking pretty golden already, so I quickly re-read the box and realized that there were two pre-heat options. 180 for an oven and 160 for fan forced. I was using fan forced. 

So I quickly turned the heat down and left them in for a minute longer, then yanked those babies out of the oven and let them cool and set. 

Apart from the little mishap they ended up being DELICIOUS which you'd hope so for box mix. I shared them around and work and everyone was none the wiser and texted me in compliments later on that night. Job well done I say

bon apetit!

harper.
p.s turns out there were actually eggs in the cupboard already.

What I learnt-
- When looking for ingredients and before running off to Woolworths, check both the fridge AND the pantry
- Always read the recipe, and for me, read it twice
- Taking the cookies out just before they are too golden and letting them set on a wire cooling tray stops the cookies from drying out and leaves them moist and tasty