Most bakers use a quick recipe when it comes to making something simple like cookies, however we decided to spice it up a little bit with a challenge. We started with 20 smalls slips of paper with ingredients one may find in a cookie recipe that ranged from eggs and flour to a few fun items like Nutella and peanut butter. Then, we chose 15 of those slips of paper to make our cookie batter. To say it was scary would be an understatement; imagine not being able to put flour in cookies because it wasn’t one of the ingredients that was drawn. Luckily for these cookies, that wasn’t the case and they got all of the ingredients needed for them to be classified as a cookie.

The ingredients that we pulled were: flour, eggs, sugar, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, vegetable oil, salt, baking soda, oats, peanut butter, Nutella, chocolate chips, cinnamon and peanuts.

After mixing all the ingredients together, the dough actually was close in resemblance to normal cookie dough. We then placed the rolled balls of dough on a cookie sheet and they were sent to the oven for the final test. Once they were in for a sufficient amount of time and we had eaten all of the leftover dough, it was time for them to come out of the oven and cool down before the taste test. They looked like quality cookies and we were only a little worried that the cookies would actually be a major disappointment.

It was finally time to taste the mystery cookies. Overall, they tasted pretty good for a cookie that was made from a list of random ingredients pulled from a cup. One small problem that came from the cookies was that they were a little crumbly and practically fell apart in your hand.

Even though the cookies wouldn’t make it in a gourmet bakery, they still tasted pretty decent and we had a lot of fun along the way when it came to making these mystery ingredient cookies.

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