An Original Recipe by LaZorra

1. Enroll in a Spanish correspondence course. Halfway through lesson, decide to make cookies.

2. Find cookbook with more than one cookie recipe to a page. Plan on making a half batch of the last recipe on the page.

3. Forget to preheat oven.

4. Heat butter in microwave. Get butter all over self.

5. Look at recipe again. See that it calls for 2 cups brown sugar. Get out brown sugar. Put in 1 cup.

6. Put in 1 egg, fresh from neighbor's hen. Crack egg on side of mixing bowl while mixer is mixing. Accidentally drop in eggshell and listen to the melodic crunch that occurs. Frantically turn off mixer and scan dough for eggshell.

7. Add 1 teaspoon baking soda. After adding, realize that only 1/2 was needed for this half-batch.

8. Look at recipe again and realize that wrong recipe was consulted in Step 5. Correct recipe calls for 1 cup brown sugar and 1 cup granulated sugar in full form. Sigh and decide to make full batch after all.

9. Add flour. Accidentally turn mixer on much too high and send flour all over kitchen and self. Try not to have a sneezing fit.

10. Add vanilla, nutmeg, and sour cream.

11. Find container of chocolate chips and ancient bag of slivered almonds. Realize that slivered almonds--though not called for--would cover up any eggshell added in Step 6. Dump in large amount of chips and nuts.

12. Preheat oven to degree of your choice.

13. Read "un-greased baking sheet" first as "greased", then as "ungreased", then as "greased" again. Decide not to grease sheet.

14. Get out ice cream scoop and pop cookies on to sheet.

15. Put cookies in oven and resume Spanish lesson.

16. Forget about cookies until suddenly they can be smelt.

17. Run into kitchen, open oven, and thank goodness that the cookies are not yet burnt. Take off sheet and put in next batch.

18. Test cookies by giving one to a disposable friend or relative. Watch face closely. When friend/relative asks what cookie contains, shrug nonchalantly and say "Lots of stuff."

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