Happy Halloween

I'm not a big fan of Halloween. I never really enjoyed trick-0r-treating. I especially hated it when the adults tried to scare us and when they couldn't recognize my strange homemade costumes. The candy always made the hassle of Halloween worthwhile.

Now I'm an old lady (grin), I give out the candy. I never plan far enough in advance and always end up doing a very slap-dash job of my pumpkin. I like a friendly toothy pumpkin but this year I lost a tooth in my carving haste.


Handing out candy is reasonably fun but this year very few kids came by. So I baked cookies... They were terrible.
I used one of my old recipes and as I was going along I thought, "This can't be right" but I persisted. I should have trusted my baking guts. They're edible but I want to take them to work and frankly I've got a reputation to uphold. I knew they were bad when roommate J declared that I'd made better. My second attempt (with a different recipe) looks better so far. I'll see how they taste as soon as they're cool enough.

Cookie Update:
So much better! I was attempting a ginger molasses cookie. I made some excellent ones last year which my coworkers still rave about (thus my wanting to take them to work). These are good but aren't as kicky. I have of course misplaced the recipe I used last year. This recipe was from Cook's Illustrated.com. I made one modification to the recipe. Instead of using one egg yolk, I used the whole egg. I guess I could have saved the white for this weekend's project (a birthday cake for me).