For the past.. few? Weeks I saw multiple tutorials on YT about how to bake simple peanut butter cookies, so knowing that I had to learn more about cooking, I baked some yesterday last night, again (and I say again because thus is my 2nd attempt at them. Last week I tried it, and they were crumbly and could almost dissolve easily in milk). The result... is, uh.. well it's garbage alright? You can already tell by the photo I just took of them that they are burnt. Not just that, these cookies aren't even supposed to be this big! They're to wide and flat. This is 4 of the 11 I made, or attempted making. 2 of which I tried making for Grandpa using some of his candy he eats (one of them down in the lower right). He even said they sucked. I'm not baking again after this, let alone be it the 2nd attempt at this. I'll just stick to my Mom's chilli, grilled cheese, anything with instructions, anything fried, or.. other things. No baking for me, and I can see why my Mother never liked it. The effort it takes to prepare anything like this isn't worth what's made in the end to me.

Am I able to post this on an art site? I don't know. Why did I wanna post this? Well, because not only was it my "first" ever attempt and baking something from scratch in my life, but to show, via photo proof, what the result looks like. And I would share individually to each friend, but that.. would be a pain to do it one at a time, so here I am making it public.

So uh... thoughts? Advice? Please either comment here or on Discord to me about it. This irritates me because I'm trying to perfect something that should be somewhat simple. Not only am I trying to impress Grandpa with my growing knowledge and skills, but this is surely what my Mother would have probably liked to have taught me; making food for myself, and I'm fumbling with it. This is important to me because surely it was important to my Mother, and if not now, then it would have been. What would she say?..

I guess my friends aren't the only thing sweet I made~