Cookies gone bad

I love the internet, sometimes, most times. It brings the whole world to my fingertips. Zillions of recipes from cooks and bakers around the world and in my back yard. Cooks with varying skills levels and tastes. And cooks who might even have typos (eek) in their recipes. I was invited to a gathering on Sunday. As my M.O. I like to bake a tasty treat to bring along. Cautioned early on the hostess' kid is allergic to eggs I was left with a bit of a baking challenge. I was thinking cookies, so I do what I do when I'm contemplating what to bake/cook. I googled "cookies without eggs" and got many, many pages of options. I like to look for familiar blogs and websites when I randomly search for recipes, after three or four pages I didn't see anyone I know. I then started to check out recipes, weeding out the ones that looked wonky or ingredients I didn't have or won't use, like lard. No lard on hand, not baking with lard. Feel free to voice your opinion, but I doubt I'll sway. And by wonky, sometimes people post recipes that only make sense to a select few or method is so disjointed that you know things will go bad quick. At face value my chosen recipe looked spot on. I went to work. I even opted to double the recipe, lots of yummy cookies! I swapped lemon for almond in the flavoring. I added some purple sprinkles (pixie dust to ensure a Raven's win) and then.... "Preheat oven to 450." My gut said "NOOOO!" My head said "NOOOO!" My fingers dialed up 450 and we baked. In case you are wondering, a temp that high yields a very cake like cookie, that stays soft and limp. The texture not very cookie like. But I baked on, in my happy place, hoping the next cookie sheet or the sheet after would be better. Not so much. Guess I could have dialed the oven down, didn't. I kept baking.

Rule of thumb, don't trust everything you find on the internet, especially that email requesting $2,000 wired to Jamaica and you will get $100,000 in return. Some things just aren't right and this cookie recipe was one of them.