{Day 306}

Her contagious, wonderful laugh rang out in the tiny apartment and I chimed in.  We couldn’t help it.

The other evening a friend mentioned she was going to make chocolate chip cookies and I volunteered to keep her company and help out a bit.  My mom selected a recipe from her cooking box for us to ensure success and we were off to get the ingredients.  From there we made our way to her apartment and proceeded to pull out cute vintage mixing bowls and and measuring cups.  Then she held up the hand mixer.  I looked at it dubiously but decided that we might as well get started since that was what we had to work with.  Next thing I knew we were taking turns using the little hand mixer.  Making not one batch of cookie dough but two.  Yes, we decided to double the recipe never mind the fact that the oven was smoking most unusually.  Happy little bakers that we were we just decided that all these tasty morsels needed was a bit of optimism.  All of a sudden my nose detected an odd smell.  Not a good sign.  “I think we’re going to kill the hand mixer.”  It was making a funny screaming noise.  “Let’s try a different outlet.”  Girl talk commenced and so did the mixing of our cookie dough until I noticed smoke puffing from the mixer!  “We killed it!”  And that moment right there…well that’s when we started laughing so hard we couldn’t stand up straight.  Indeed we did kill the mixer, may it rest in peace.  We proceeded to mix the dough by hand and I’m pleased to announce that the cookies turned out beautifully and tasted good too. 🙂  Today’s Thankful30:

Day 27:  Grateful for laughter and hilarious baking times with a friend!  The fact that the cookies turned out well didn’t hurt either. 😉