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Harley Quinn, Nice to Meet Ya



Remember, in the first blog post, when I said my biggest trouble was that I was indecisive... Well, once again, I have changed my plans on what cookies I am going to be making. I wanted a cookie where the secret ingredient wasn't extremely obvious like the potato chips had been, so I went searching the internet for a more incognito ingredient. I have decided to swap out the M&M cookies for a cookie made with pudding (hence the Harley Quinn reference 😉). At this point, my whole house is filled with cookies, and you would think I would be sick of baking, but here I am, still having a great time. The making of this dough was by far the easiest out of all the recipes I attempted during this project! I also found it interesting that there was no salt in this recipe, as I am so used to the dry ingredients always consisting of flour, baking soda, and salt.

Watch the video of these (D)elicious (C)ookies (see what I did there?) featuring a LIVE taste test at the end! (link will lead to Youtube video)

Now take a look at the judge's deliberations (click the pictures to enlarge):

These cookies were many people's favourites of the bunch!  My mom liked how chewy they were, but complained about there being too much chocolate (so clearly she is crazy). She gave these cookies a score of 16.5/20. Curtis rated them 18.5/20, stating that they were his favourite out of the four because they were the perfect consistency of crunchy on the outside but chewy on the inside. His special ingredient guess at first was orange... which my mom and I were very confused at. But after scouring our fridge for hints decided to guess vanilla coffee creamer, which was at least closer to the vanilla pudding that was used. My Dad, on the other hand, said they were almost "too doughy" and gave them a score of 16/20. He guessed the ingredient as marshmallow because of how sweet they were. Riccardo really liked these ones, trying to give them a score of 6 for aesthetic, even though he ate it so fast I don't think he actually looked at it. He originally gave them a score of 5 for taste, but dropped it down to a 4.5 because of the "weird after taste." He was also disappointed that we used vanilla pudding rather than chocolate pudding. He gave them a score of 19.5/20 in the end. Personally, these were by far my favourite of the four recipes made. I loved the consistency of them, they were the perfect chewiness with a ridiculous amount of chocolate. I ranked them my personal highest with a score of 19/20!

The final score for these cookies was 89.5/100, landing this cookie in FIRST place! I think we came to the unanimous agreement that these were the favourite of the four cookies made. Stay tuned for the final blog post to see the official ranking of the other 3 recipes!



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