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Rocky Road Cookies

Rocky Road Cookies ~ Get ready for multi-textured cookie. Working your way from the outside in you will find a crisp chewy exterior around a fudge-like brownie texture and at that center of it all is a gooey marshmallow filling.

I have a bad reputation for not giving up, especially when it comes to life changing matters, like—can I make a rocky road cookie without the marshmallows melting into the dough? This was my third attempt and even though I dropped the first cookie sheet from burning my thumbs and shouted enough profanity to shame Andrew Dice Clay, I persevered. Continue reading Rocky Road Cookies

Cookie Flop!

Can you even guess what I attempted here? Wonder what those little seeping pools of liquid can be? l”ll tell you this, those seeping pools are also responsible for the sunken holes you see.

The culprit: marshmallows. The cookie: Rocky Road. Yeah, not so much, right?

This might be my best fail, E-V-E-R. I completely brain faded. Marshmallows are more than 70% sugar, of course they will melt at high heat. As for the taste (based on what I could scrape up), um, I missed the mark on that one as well.

So off the heels of all that self congratulatory back patting in the Coffee Cake recipe, I was pretty much humbled by these not so great tasting and ugly babies.