Perfectly DISGUSTING Cinnamon Sugar Cookies – Kitchen Disaster!

Oh man, I think one of my most memorable kitchen disasters was when I tried to make cinnamon sugar cookies. I was sitting around at home, and I got the sudden urge to bake something. I immediately logged onto the Internet and began to Google different recipes. At first I wanted to make snicker doodles, but since I didn’t have cream of tartar, that one went out the door. So then I reduced down to cinnamon sugar cookies…a recipe I basically had all the ingredients for.

Now let me tell you where I went wrong. I know I know, “Cinnamon sugar cookies”…what could possibly go wrong. Well…I’ll tell you: baking powder vs. baking soda and lack of vanilla extract. I had no idea these would make a difference! But apparently they did. I had the sugar, butter, eggs, flour, cinnamon, salt, sugar, and baking soda, so I figured I had everything—minus the vanilla extract, but I figured the sugar would compensate for the sweetness. WRONG! I needed the vanilla extract and baking POWDER, not SODA. Thinking nothing of it, I continued to bake as is and just used the baking soda instead and skipped the vanilla altogether.

Everything was going just fine and the cookies even ended up smelling delicious when I stuck them into the oven to bake. I checked on them midway through cooking and they started to brown perfectly and they smelled better and better by the minute; a spicy and sweet goodness filled the air! The dough smelled like perfection baking in the oven, making my entire house smell like sweet sugar. It reminded me of a cold winter night, a perfect time to bake cookies, making the kitchen warm from the heat of the oven and the rest of the house warm with the delicious smell of homemade cookies.

After I allowed them to cook all the way, I pulled them out of the oven and sat them on my cooling rack atop the counter. Each cookie looked like it was cooked to perfection, little round mounds topped with cinnamon and sugar, little cracks in the dough as evidence that they are cooked. Once they cooled completely, I reached for a cookie and held it beneath my nose to get a better whiff. Cinnamon sugar filled my nose, stinging my nose with its sweetness and piercing it with its spice.

I then went in for a bite—EW! Oh my goodness! The cookie itself was perfectly crisp around the edges and doughy in the middle, but the taste was awful! All that filled my mouth was a bitter flavor that just engulfed my entire tongue and spread up my cheeks, onto the roof of my mouth, and settled into a disgusting puddle of saliva beneath my tongue. I felt like I just ate a bunch of horseradish or something! I spit it all out into the garbage bin next to me immediately. My family looked at me and I just told them the cookies were awful. I was a bit embarrassed to say so because I really wanted to bake and usually my cookies turn out okay, but these were a complete disaster…thanks to that baking soda. The baking soda and lack of vanilla seemed to make the cookies everything but sweet and just made them absolutely repulsive!

Well, I learned my lesson. Always make sure to have the CORRECT ingredients…otherwise the food will turn out absolutely and completely horrible. Never again will I skip out on vanilla extract and substitute baking soda for powder. What an ordeal!

Check out the recipe I used here ! <–this should result in DELICIOUS cookies if followed step by step.

This is the photo that is used for the recipe. THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO! I OWN NOTHING! Click the photo to view the photographer’s page!

And if you want to try to recreate my terrible, awful, and disgusting version…try using these ingredients instead:

sugar
butter
eggs
flour
cinnamon
salt
cinnamon sugar
baking soda

**REMEMBER NOT TO ADD VANILLA EXTRACT AND USE BAKING SODA INSTEAD OF BAKING POWDER…for my terrible recipe**