#did the directions say knead??? no. did mixing until just combined do jack shit for me? no

[dirkxcaliborn]

making cookies is actually a traumatic event

#coyo speaks #I am... not confident they're going to come out well #I don't have a stand mixer or a hand mixer #I just have a electric whisk and it fucking hates me #every time I try to use it it decides my food/drink would be soooooo much better outside the bowl #trying to cream butter and sugar is a fucking nightmare #I just kept switching between the electric whisk; an actual whisk; a wooden spoon; a fork; and my bare hands #the recipe didn't have a video too which was a bad choice #bc I have no fucking clue what it's supposed to look like rn #at one point I was straight up kneading the damn thing just so it was actually a unified piece of dough instead of crumble hell #did the directions say knead??? no. did mixing until just combined do jack shit for me? no #remind me not to impulsively make recipes I find online without understanding what exactly they entail #the worst fucking thing about recipes is when they expect you to know shit #I don't mind the essay at the start if it's walking you through each step as if you've never cooked in your life #instead it's like reading an art tutorial and all it says for one step is 'color the lineart' #and they expect you to just know about alpha lock or clipping masks #but you don't you've never done that in your whole life #and then you end up spending hours carefully tracing over your lineart because you can't think of anything else #and it sucks and it takes forever and it's hard and tiring and looks worse #that's me and baking i hate it here #anyway you can remind me but I'll still do it again. this will happen and I will suffer