Baking

This one goes out to my sister, Christina, or @xtinaluvspink on twitter. 
Yesterday she saw this recipe for Salted Dark Chocolate Nutella Cookies so we decided to make them when we came home and were going to have them for Easter dessert. We got followed the instructions and got the ingredients out and started mixing stuff together. Christina lined the baking pans with wax paper and we threw them in the oven. Dad, Christina and I were standing in the kitchen talking when not even 2 minutes go by and we smell something funny. Christina opens the oven door and out comes this blue cloud of smoke. She quickly takes them out of the oven, Dad and I open windows and turn fans on and then we realized Christina's mistake. The instructions said to use parchment paper. Christina used WAX paper.
Dad and I flipped the cookies onto parchment paper and saved them and threw them back in to finish baking. Later we frosted the middle with Nutella (we were going to do a whipped Nutella and Hazelnut Liquor but we didn't have the latter so we opted just for the Nutella). After dinner, which was full of laughs, almost to the point were soda nearly came out of my mom's nose, we tried the cookies. Skeptical at first because of the possibility of it tasting like wax, we all looked at each other and bit in. They tasted amazing. The cookies were crunchy enough to add texture without being dry. The salt on top was the perfect compliment to the Nutella on the inside. A big glass of cold milk was definitely needed but man were those good!

Moral of the story is: follow the directions. When it says parchment paper, don't think that you can substitute it for wax paper, especially when going in the oven. 


Here is the recipe for those interested: Salted Dark Chocolate Nutella Cookies