How I Won a Cookie Baking Contest Without Even Knowing I Entered One

[gnomi]

Yesterday sort of mid-day, mabfan texted me. "Can you make me a pan of chocolate chip cookie bars tonight? I need them for work tomorrow, because we're having a cookie and ice cream meeting and everyone's supposed to bring some home-made cookies." Since I am the cook/baker in the household, the baking of said cookie bars falls to me.

"You're gonna help, right?" I asked. "Uh... but, of course!" he replied.

Uh, OK. I can do that. Except that I needed some ingredients, so we stopped at the store on the way home (butter and chocolate chips are both vital ingredients for chocolate chip cookie bars). Ingredients all in hand, we set about making the cookie bars. I make this recipe a lot, so I did the measuring, and mabfan did the mixing of the ingredients. We then let them bake (as we watched last night's Lost), and I cut them this morning and put them in a container for mabfan to take to work.

At about 3:30 this afternoon, mabfan called me. "We won! You won!"

I... what?

Well, it turns out that part of this cookie-and-ice-cream meeting involved a bake-off amongst the bakers of the various cookies brought in. And after a run-off vote, the cookie bars mabfan provided won.

Which netted me a gift card to Starbucks. Something to drink with the cookie bars, I figure. :-)

Comments

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

Awesome! (I now desperately want some.)

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

yipee!!! Now I need a cookie bar.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Your husband is a sneaky weasel.

Also, congrats! On the win, not netting a sneaky weasel.

[elandrialore.livejournal.com]

That is both funny and fabulous:) Congrats!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very cool! So you got to bake without pressure, and then enjoy the positive feedback. Sounds like a nice position to be in.

[ragingpixie.livejournal.com]

WOO! Congratulations. I'd like to win some contests I didn't know I was in.

[running-girl4.livejournal.com]

LOL! Wow good job! :) Enjoy the Staarbucks.

[thespisgeoff.livejournal.com]

At least it netted you the Starbucks card. As they say, "to the baker go the spoils."

..I've spent the last five minutes trying to pun that up and have been completely unable to. I fail at life.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of nothing so much as the Anne of Green Gables sequence (I forget which book it's in...) where Diana submits Anne's story to an advertising competition. Except, you know, M didn't need to change any ingredients for the cookies to qualify for the bake-off. :)

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov :)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

hee - at least he handed over the prize to the deserving baker!