Gutie's Goodies

Does anybody else use this app called Timehop? It just tells you whatever you did on this date in your social media history, so usually it's just embarrassing. But sometimes it makes me like painfully nostalgic. For example, the picture up there came up on my Timehop last week and it reminded me of this night three summers ago where three of my best friends and I made Cookie Monster cupcakes! They were pretty cute, and pretty tasty, and the whole night was a blast. Yesterday when 3/4 of us were reunited (sorry, Shanna! we missed you), intending to bake something, we decided to recreate these masterpieces, except on sugar cookies this time.  Grandma Myers' Sugar Cookies - originally from the cookbook First Capitol Favorites   (presented by the Young Women's Club of York ) Ingredients Cookies 1 stick of butter, room temperature 1 cup of sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon of vanilla ¾ cup of buttermilk ½ teaspoon of baking soda 2½ teaspoons of baking powder 2½ cups ...

Making these cookies reminded me of a very nice time when I started making cupcakes. #TBT if you will. For the first, like, three weeks of baking cupcakes, I was awful at it. Just awful. I always overbaked them, they were so dry they were basically inedible. I didn't really know how to frost either. I just haphazardly spread some overly stiff frosting with a knife, and even when I picked up piping I was still awful. The point of the matter is that it didn't come naturally to me; it took a lot of practice. So, I don't really know why I expected that I could just pick up cookies and be super good at it right away. They turned out alright in the end, but the process was certainly trying. I just can't tell when cookies are done, I've never made royal icing before, and I'm not awesome at piping in a straight line. Those were the primary obstacles. I actually underbaked half of the cookies and they broke almost immediately. I've never known how to test cooki...