The other day, I stopped in at Lady Lexi’s Sweets, a new bakery in my Harlem neighborhood. Lexi’s business cards read: “Stressed is desserts spelled backwards.”
Among the display stands of cookies, cupcakes and peanut brittle were some bags of cookies with a sign that said: OOPS COOKIES. What are Oops Cookies? I asked.
Those are cookies that didn’t turn out right —their shape I mean — we dropped them onto the sheet funny so they’re kind of cockeyed. But they still taste good. We call ’em Oops Cookies.
Clever entrepreneur Lexi just packaged the odd-shaped-not-quite-as-intended cookies as something charming. Brilliant.
Reframing is worth doing with all sorts of things that routinely go out-of-control.
If you’re in the mood for making Oops Cookies of your own, I recommend Gigi Blue‘s Salty-Sweet Chocolate Chip Cookie from Canal House Cooks Every Day
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…or my own Brown Sugar Butter Cookies with Many Improvisations, a PDF from The Improvisational Cook
…they are guaranteed to be cockeyed and delish!
I haven’t even had breakfast yet and you’re making me want to start baking cookies instead! Thank you for sharing your Brown Sugar Butter Cookie recipe – I look forward to improvising with it.
oh my goodness these are good!
i can always trust your cooking…
thank you for your work
Great start into a new week. Love the quote and even more happily have another spoon of crumble (strawberry-rhubarb) for breakfast. I think I am going to be stressed all day. N.
THANK YOU!!!!!