This is an account of one day in the Kingdom of Reality. Incidents may have been embellished and names are definitely changed.
A Bakers Tale
Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Reality, a young Princess was lost in thought trying to find a fun way to raise money for the local schoolchildren. It came to her that a grand fair with a lot of games and other activities would be the perfect answer! Food, drink, music and bouncing houses would be a great way for the towns people to spend a day of frivolity and fund raising to help the local school.
Venturing off by herself she headed for the shoppe of the Royal Baker. Now it was well known how much the Royal Baker loved the little Princess and would do anything she asked. The Baker always had a pantry full of everything needed to make any treat when asked. But the Baker was very tired today after staying up into the wee hours of the morning partying and conversing with friends.
The little Princess rang the bell of the Shoppe and burst through the door in excitement. Explaining her idea to the Baker, she asked for help in making the cookies to be sold from very long tables. The Baker would normally smile and hug the little Princess but this morning she was very tired. The little Princess put on her sad face and batted her eyelashes. The Princess simply said, “Pleeeeease Royal Baker! I can’t do this without your help!” Of course the Baker couldn’t resist and agreed.
When the Princess returned later that day the Baker presented a box of 17 dozen cookies for the fair. Off to the side was another box wrapped with white string. Inside was a “special” dozen of cookies meant just for the Princess. After all it was never certain when the King and Queen would consent to a small treat for the little girl. The Princess squealed with delight and skipped all the way home to the castle.
The Baker let out a long sigh and went off for a much needed rest.
Here are some photos of the cookies as they were cooling as well as after they were packaged. Want your cookies to be this thick and round and not burnt on the bottom? The secret is in the last photo.
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I tried the biscuit cutter and rim of a glass method but the dough spread in the oven.
This was great!
Any size muffin tin works.
The tins are a bit thicker than a cookie pan so the bottom doesn’t scorch. Spray the wells with oil and wipe the excess with a paper towel. I used a 2″ cookie scoop sprayed with oil so there was no sticking and all the dough fell in the well.
I baked at 350 F for 8 minutes. Since the tins were shorter than my cookie pan I was able to put them side by side on the center shelf. The cookies had room to spread in the well so they weren’t extra thick.
They were all totally cooked without being burned. I guess that was a win win for me! And I didn’t have to worry about spacing.
I will never use a cookie sheet again! Just run a knife around the rim, tap the bottom and they pop right out. Happy cookie baking.
Enjoy!
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This article is part of the Tips That Help in the Kitchen Series, Tip Friday.
Great article and great idea as well. You are wonderful for helping out the little ones. TFS
Thank you Clearissa. I am glad you liked the post! Enjoy your evening.
What a fun story! I love it and the cookies look delicious!!! Thank you for sharing at #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty
Thank you so much! Those were the best cookies I have ever made!! Have a great day.
Hi Marilyn, I loved the way your wrote your cute story! I hope you got some much-needed rest. A muffin pan for cookies? Who would thought!! Thank you for sharing at the #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty! Pinned and shared.
Thanks Teresa for the kind words. Yes, I did get rest. As I get older it seems I just can’t get as much done as I like. I have been hearing that for years from my mom and now I know what she means. See you at the party! Have a good week.
Adorable lol Hope you got your rest!
Eventually I did. I love to make cookies but not in an assembly line! Have a great day.
I LOVE this post!!!! Well done & cheers to you for helping the kids. xoxoxoxo
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I loved your princess story Marilyn and the thought behind it – raising money for children. Those cookies look so tempting! Thank you for sharing with us at #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty.
Thank you Sue for your kind thoughts. I wish you a wonderful week!
Loved your story Princess Marilyn and I love that you were raising money with your fabulous baking – your biscuits look fabulous 🙂
Thanks Amber for the kind words. Have a good day!
This post was awesome. Loved the princess story. I always bake my cookies with airbake pans. I only tried to make cookies in a muffin cup to use as ice cream bowls.
The muffin tins make each cookie the same size. Perfect for a sale.
I have always stepped back from making bake sale cookies just for this reason. Many times a get one huge cookie pan cookie when I try to make 12 little ones. This fixed that though!! Thanks Leanna for sharing. Have a great week!
Oh wow, there is a lot of yummy cookies here 🙂 Thanks for sharing at the weekend blog hop.
Thank you Claire. Have a great week.
My goodness Marilyn, that was l lot of cookies and I can see you have wonderful memories. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great weekend and come back to see us real soon!
Miz Helen
I am not as young as I feel anymore. That took everything out of me and had to take a nap! Thx Miz Helen. Have a great week.
Hi Marilyn, you did yourself proud oh Royal Baker! Creating such a fine selection couldn’t have been easy, but you did it!… Thanks for the muffin tin tip. Such a simple idea, but not one I would ever have thought of!
Popping over from the #weekendblogshare.
xx
Actually, it was my granddaughter since the cookie pans were buried under skillets! Thank you Debbie. Have a good week!
Now THAT is a clever idea!
I am interested to hear that the royal baker is such a party animal! Who knew!!?!!
Really Julie??? (Linky parties..) LOL. Have a good week!
My kids love thick and chewy cookies, so I’m going to have to try this muffin tin technique for cookis.
It is fun. And the kids can help! Have a good week!
Looks so good. I bet it was fun too, after you rested up. Thanks for sharing this with us at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Sharing
It really was. I used prepared batter and added the water and eggs and oil. My granddaughter was able to help that way. And the cookies were great! Have a good week!
Ah, now we know 🙂 Thank you Marilyn for linking up at the #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty. I shared your post on Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, and Twitter.
You are so welcome Dee. I hope you try the muffin tin sometime! Have a great week.
Not fair as I just finished eating lunch and I have absolutely nothing sweet to eat. The muffin tin works great as I made them with my chocolate chip cookie recipe I posted a long time ago. The gang actually liked those better! Happy FF and thanks for sharing!
It is amazing how they turn out differently but still are delicious. See you soon at FF. Have a great week.
Marilyn, how did I miss this post before? The Royal Baker certainly did deserve a rest after making 18 dozen cookies! This is a great idea for picky types like me who want the cookies to be identical.
You mean there are more people with OCD?? This will cure the spreading cookies! Have a great week.
What a great idea for perfectly round cookies! Thanks for sharing at The Blogger’s Pit Stop! Roseann from http://www.thisautoimmunelife.com
I hope you try it sometime soon Roseann. Have a good holiday!
Great tip! I will definitely try this!
Thanks Barrie. You won’t believe how easy this is. Have a good holiday.
This is an awesome idea! Who would not love the crispy edges!! I need to have a baking day and prepare some treats to put in the freezer.
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I sure hope you give this a try! You will wow your family. Have a good day!
I love the idea of using muffin tins for cookies. With several people living in my home I am often having to double or triple recipes, so I usually just spread the dough in a jelly roll pan and make bar cookies. I will have to try muffin tin cookies sometime soon!
I love bar cookies too, but I end up making them too thick. There is nothing like a soft cookie with a crunch on the edges. Have a wonderful week!
This is a fantastic tip for cookies that tend to spread. Just imagine the possibilities…banana bread cookies….soft sugar cookies without making them too floury. Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
I still have images attached to recipes here from somepretty awful looking cookies. I leave them to prove I had to learn too! Some day I will swap them out but I think readers know me enough now not to judge me from those early days! LOL. Have a wonderful week!
muffin tins! great idea. Brilliant
Thanks Cheryl. Glad you like them!
The Royal Baker has such a kind heart, ha ha! Love the muffin tin tip. I am thinking mini muffin pans would be really fun for mini cookies.
Yes. And texas size for the huge ones or whoopie pies. I tried them both. Thx Audrey.
What a great idea to put them in muffin tins. Love it. I can believe that you made 17 dozen cookies. That sounds like you. What a great “baker”.
Thanks for sharing at Over The Moon party,
Bev
P.S. Love your story.
Thank you Beverly. It was tiring but fun to see her face!
Great tips Marilyn – I’ll be remembering this next time I make cookies!! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party!
Hello Helen! This is a great trick when you are taking cookies somewhere and want to “show off” your skills! LOL. Have a blessed week!
Those do look delicious… and evenly formed. I am not fond of washing muffin pans, so I would probably be fine with cookies that are not perfectly round. 🙂 What a great variety of tasty looking cookies.
Me either about the pans. That is why I oiled the wells. They sat in warm soapy water and all I did was dry them! Going to do that for muffins, too! Have a blessed week!
These all look so delicious
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Marilyn, I make cookies all the time, seriously all the time, so I’m so glad you shared your secret of getting the cookies perfectly perfect! 🙂 I’ll have to try it with my next batch.
Keri you will never use a cookie pan again!
I believe that I’ve said it before, and I’m going to say it again… You are brilliant! I never would have thought of making cookies in a muffin tin. But I love thick cookies as they are always soft in the center. But I hate the bottoms to be burnt. This is brilliant. Now I can be just like the princess in your story and spoil myself with perfect cookies!
You will lways be a princess in my eyes Nikki! Enjoy.
What a great idea! I imagine it is so much faster, too! That’s a LOT of cookies! Thanks for sharing with us at the Throwback Thursday Link party!
Mollie
It really was Mollie. From preheat to lights off was less than 3 hours. And I have to sit at the counter!
What a clever trick!! Definitely going to remember this one. … thank you for sharing your good idea at #fridayfrivolity!
I enjoyed your party. I m glad you liked the tip!
Marilyn so simple and genius, I would never have thought to do that, it is such a great idea. I never can get uniform shapes and here you have done it.
Kathleen
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Thanks Kathleen. Actually, the little princess handed me those tins when I asked since the cookie sheets were unavailable. She said it was a good replacement. Out of the mouths of babes!
I have used a muffin top pan to bake cookies in that works well but I lobe your idea using muffin tins, I will give this a try for uniform cookies. Is there a difference in baking time, do you think? And I would love to walk around the table and have a taste of all your cookies!!! 🙂
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Karren
I used a 2″ cookie scoop sprayed with oil so there was no sticking and all the dough fell in the well. I baked at 350 F for 8 minutes. Since the tins were shorter than my cookie pan I was able to put them side by side on the center shelf. The cookies had room to spread in the well so they weren’t extra thick. They were all totally cooked without being burned. I guess that was a win win for me! And I didn’t have to worry about spacing. I will never use a cookie sheet again! Just run a knife around the rim, tap the bottom and they pop right out. Happy cookie baking.
What a story and who would have thought how to get perfectly round cookies. Love it.
Fairy tales are the only way my kids let me talk about them on the internet. Actually, it was Miss J that brought me the muffin tins when I asked for the pans. What a genius!
Pure genius, Marilyn! I just adore this idea! (And could I please put in an order with the Royal Baker for some of those cookies? I’m salivating over here!)
Thank you Regina. I struggled for years with cookies that ran together and got so thin we had pieces. Then one day when my cookie pans were unavailable I turned to muffin tins. Voila!
I have three teenage grandsons that are coming to visit soon and this is the way I’ll be making cookies.
Let me know what you think about it. I find running a knife on the rim and tapping on the bottom will pop them right out!
Marilyn, what a genius idea! There are times when one simply must have perfectly uniform cookies!
It took me 40 years to figure it out! Thamks Jean!
The Royal Baker is really a saint for baking all those cookies for her Little Princess! I’ll tall all the Snickerdoodles and gladly pay full price!
LOVE that trick! I’ve never heard that one! Thanks 🙂
Thanks Shirley! That pan is a lifesaver!
I love your tips! I have not tried this, but I love making cookies so will give it a try when I make my next batch. Pinned 🙂
Thank you Angela. You wont be sorry. Just run a knife on the rim and tap the bottom to release them!
Such a neat idea! 🙂
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Thanks Jess!
That was a fun story – and the snickerdoodles look really good! (My favorite cookie). Thanks for sharing at the “What’s for Dinner” link party!
Thank you Helen. The dough was so sticky they wouldn’t roll so I had to sprinkle the cinnamon sugar. You can tell it clumped! I hope they still tasted good!
Drooling over these cookies! Pinning and sharing!
You are too sweet Tara! They were fun to make. No spacing required!
Great idea! And a sweet little story… 🙂 Thanks for sharing at Dishing It & Digging It!
Thank you Lori. You are so sweet!
Marilyn, This is such a brilliant idea! Enjoyed the post 🙂
Thank you so much Laurie.
What a great idea! I have never thought of using a muffin tin…brilliant! I also enjoyed your story that went along with this bright idea…i’m sure the little princess was so happy to sell all these wonderful cookies 😉
Thanks Charlotte. She was dancing and drooling when she got home from school! She liked the story too and explained to me who all the characters were!
Awe! She sounds like a cutie 🙂
That’s a brilliant idea! Were the pans hard to wash out? Thanks for adding your link to the Family Joy linky party!
Actually Rachael spraying the oil and blotting with a paper towel just made the wells glisten. I ran a butter knife around the rim, tapped the bottom and they popped right out. Cleanup was soapy water and a sponge!
Love your presentation of how the cookies came to be! How fun! Thanks for the tip, too. I’m going to try that. Pinning and Tweeting. Thanks for sharing at Snickerdoodle Sunday, Marilyn!
You are welcome Beverly. I am not allowed let anyone know about her, name or shenanigans. I had to do something! Have a stress free week!
A lovely treat for the princess! Overthemoon
She was o tickled! Thanks!
Very creative story telling Marilyn. I use this method for baking savory things, like last night I made cheesy black pepper cauliflower bites in my muffin pans, but never thought of cookies, lol. We have a homeschool field trip this week.I will try this method of baking…the girls have been asking for molasses cookies. Take care!
Cheesy cauliflower? Sold. I will provide the tins and ingredients and will be right over! Try the tins for those cookies. Run a butterknife around the rim and tap the bottom. They should pop right out! Let me know! Hugs.
What a lovely story! And the tip was also great 🙂
Thank you Eeva! You are so sweet.
I sense baking cookies might have to be on the list soon Marilyn!
Oh yum! The worst part of all that baking was no sneaking cookies cuz you can’t break up a dozen!
What a great idea Marilyn and thanks for finally sharing the secret I did not know!
Honestly Joann? I tried the biscuit cutter and rim of a glass method but the dough spread in the oven. This was great! Any size muffin tin works. The tins are a bit thicker than a cookie pan so the bottom doesn’t scorch. Spray the wells with oil. Scoop the dough with a cookie scoop for even thickness and pop them in the oven! Enjoy!
Really! As I have never heard nor seen this Marilyn! When you scoop the cookie dough into the greased pan, do you flatten in any way? You can tell I don’t have much success with cookies! lol
Spray the scoop with oil about every 3-4 scoops. Wipe off the excess against the bowl. Spray each well with oil and blot excess with paper towel. Click scoop to get dough to fall into pan. Repeat until done. I use the scoop to get the same amount of dough each time. Using a spoon isnt as reliable. After cooled, tap the bottom of the tin with the palm of your hand. They should jump a bit. If stuck, run butter knife along the edges. They should fall out when turned upside down just like a cake.