Are you friends with Charis on Facebook? You may have seen her good friend Rachel post a link to make pinata cookies for Cinco de Mayo. They are sugar cookies with mini M&Ms inside:
These look awesome! I WANT THESE AT MY WEDDING! This will be easier than making a wedding cake.
The sentences above are examples of sentences we all will regret. And by, "we all," I mean probably just me. To fill you in on the back story, I volunteered to make a cake for the wedding. Once Rachel put this magical idea on Charis' wall we thought this would be more fun and appropriate for Cinco de Marriage.
It started out pretty well. Coloring the cookie dough was pretty fun. My plan for doing so was extremely flawed and my hands were covered in color. Once I finished making all six colors I started having an anxiety attack about doing all of this work and not ending up with enough cookies. So, I went back and doubled the cookie dough.
Sometime during recoloring the dough the second time, I started to get a little annoyed. The next step is putting all of this dough into layers. This is the part where I started to get angry. It takes a really long time. It is really hard to do. And it doesn't turn out nice like these pictures suggest. After the layers are made I had 4 hours to wait. It took WAY longer than I planned to get to this point, so 8PM ended up being my start time for baking.
To make a long story slightly shorter, I will summarize the rest of this process. My second cookie sheet is missing, so I had to bake one sheet at a time. I tried to make Louis shaped pinatas. The cookie cutter was very cute, but the cookies didn't end up as cute. They look less like puppies and more like deformed dinosaurs.
You can't cut out the cookies in the way the recipe suggests. Cutting out cookies after you bake the dough is stupid and ridiculous and stupid. It is also very wasteful. These are NOT sustainable cookies. This brings me to 12AM midnight. I quit.
I brought my mess of cookies with me to my AWESOME hotel room. The kitchen here was perfect to finish assembling the cookies. Here they are two days later:
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! THESE ARE A HORRIBLE IDEA! I'm hoping that my venting in this post will help cure my night terrors.
Even the person who came up with the idea doesn't want to make them! This is an excerpt from a recent interview:
“I like the concept and strategy behind my baking,” she says. “I don’t necessarily like to frost 100 cookies.”
Especially if they’re as time consuming as her pinata cookies.
“Oh, yeah, they’re a huge waste of time. Are you kidding me?”
Thanks, Rachel. I should have made a cake.
