What are the worst cookies you have ever made or eaten?

[Cat0727]

I somehow botched a rainbow chocolate chip cookie recipe when I was in high school. They were so hard and basically inedible I've never attempted making those again since, lol.

 

[Nancy]

I took what I thought was just a cut out sugar cookie..well they were the anise cookies, which is not bad normally, but these were so over-flavored with the anise they were horrible. I saw more than 1 person take a bite and not finish the cookie. (they were made for a baby shower) I'm thinking the maker of the cookies mis-read the amount to put in.

For making cookies? I only make the ones I know I can make, but one year my mexican wedding cakes came out looking like mexican pancakes. Still tasted OK, but the whole look of them was wrong.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Okay, confession time. Worst cookie mistake ever.

Making several batches of Christmas cookies in an all day affair. Am mixing dough for basic sugar cookies. Recipe calls for vanilla. I get out tiny brown bottle and add the liquid. Seconds later I am enveloped with a strong scent of mint.

In all honesty, they didn't taste all that bad. Minty fresh.

 

[hambirg]

I was making cookies at a friend's house. . .regular ole tollhouse chocolate chip. I think we were about 14 and we were gabbing away. Well, when the first batch of cookies came out they were disgusting!!! I actually had to spit it out. Somehow we managed to put 1/2C of backing soda in them instead of the tsp.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

Most of my MIL's cookies are fabulous but her Chocolate Chip cookies are terrible. She (and my SIL) cut the white and brown sugar down to a 1/4c each. They taste like sawdust with chips.

 

[mdsoccermom]

Hee. Years ago, my mother, cousin and I decided to make sugar cookies. None of us are bakers. Anyway, the recipe called for 1/2 tsp (I think) of vanilla. My cousin decided that didn't look like enough so she dumped at least a tbsp. in. Then when we were decorating them, we were talking and kind of mechanically putting the sprinkles and sugar on top. Well, my cousin, a smoker, didn't realize it, but she kept dipping her hand in the ashtray and putting the ashes on her cookies!!!

Yeah, those cookies sucked.

 

[TandT]

Stained glass cookies...YUCK!!! Waste of my time and energy!!

 

[LuvOrlando]

I totally love everyone's stories.

Tasted- My mom, who is a fabulous baker, makes traditional Italian cookies that I hate. They are flavored with anise seed, so they taste like black jellybeans. For some reason, even though most of her cookies are great, these are always really dry and tough. She LOVES them, but I don't know of anyone else who can stand them.

How can you make fun of Anise Cookies AKA Anisette Toast??? ... JKJK but I'm with your Mom, I LOVE those cookies, and Sambuca, BlackJack gum, Fennel and just about anything that tastes like black licorice. It's one of the things where you either love it or you hate it, I'm on the side. PS the cookies are a biscotti so they are actually supposed to be hard... at least the really good ones. Feel free to mail me some so I can check to see if your Mom really is a good baker or not

 

[indimom]

O M G !!!

This brings back memories of EVERY Christmas past....My mother used to always make these cookies that she called "butternut balls". They were like little round balls of chalk. LOL

I'm sure they also called something else. They're really a dry cookie with nuts in them, rolled into balls then rolled in powered sugar.

My brother, sister and I finally told her a few years back that they were horrible. She still likes them, but nobody else does.

Sounds like the cookie we make called Mexican Wedding Cakes. But they shouldn't be that dry, they should almost melt in your mouth. My mom's batch came out dry this year for some reason and they were not very good.

 

[TnTsParty]

Tasted- My mom, who is a fabulous baker, makes traditional Italian cookies that I hate. They are flavored with anise seed, so they taste like black jellybeans. For some reason, even though most of her cookies are great, these are always really dry and tough. She LOVES them, but I don't know of anyone else who can stand them.

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My friend at work makes anisette cookies every year for our cookie exchange. I tell her every year how much I don't like them - but I am not the only one. You have to know her - she wasn't offended by me telling her I don't like them. I just don't care for the anise flavor She says they are the only cookies she knows how to make.

 

[js]

I don't have a worst cookie story but I do have the worst EVER cake story.
My dm (karensi) make an Easter cake one year, shaped as a bunny. She didn't have any regular oil for the cake or Pam cooking spray for the pan, BUT she had garlic oil.

Yep, she used garlic oil. The cake looked beautiful and she gave me the first piece to see if there would be any reaction. I've tried to block the image (and taste) out of my mind, but I do recall a scream and a total spitting out of my food

Moral of story, never use garlic oil to make a bunny cake!!!

 

[tasha99]

Stained glass cookies...YUCK!!! Waste of my time and energy!!

My kids love those and they're a family tradition. I do think jolly ranchers in a sugar cookie is sort of gross, but kids think they're cool.

Worst cookies I ever had were some mint cookies that a very odd girl I knew in the army made. She didn't have any mint flavoring so she put toothpaste in them. They were legendary--I think everyone in our battalion knew how amazingly nasty her cookies were.

 

[Pigeon]

She didn't have any mint flavoring so she put toothpaste in them. They were legendary--I think everyone in our battalion knew how amazingly nasty her cookies were.

OK, the garlic bunny cake and the toothpaste cookies win. But if you ate them at the same time, at least you'd have fresh breath afterward.

 

[js]

OK, the garlic bunny cake and the toothpaste cookies win. But if you ate them at the same time, at least you'd have fresh breath afterward.

Pigeon, thanks! That really did make me just lol
Off to watch Modern Family.
I'll have to tell my mom to come on and let her know her cake was a hit at list on the dis

 

[MomofKatie]

I totally love everyone's stories.




How can you make fun of Anise Cookies AKA Anisette Toast??? ... JKJK but I'm with your Mom, I LOVE those cookies, and Sambuca, BlackJack gum, Fennel and just about anything that tastes like black licorice. It's one of the things where you either love it or you hate it, I'm on the side. PS the cookies are a biscotti so they are actually supposed to be hard... at least the really good ones. Feel free to mail me some so I can check to see if your Mom really is a good baker or not

These are not biscotti- she makes AWESOME almond and chocolate biscotti. The anise cookies are shaped kind of like a pretzel, and they aren't supposed to be dry. Somehow, mom always overworks the dough so that the cookies turn out tough.

Anise flavor- it really is a love-it-or-hate-it taste. My mom loves anything with that flavor- black licorice, Good n Plenty candies, BlackJack gum, etc. I think it is awful! To each their own, and they are a traditional Italian cookie, so I'm sure lots of people like them. I just am not one of them.

 

[Diznygrl]

Hee. Years ago, my mother, cousin and I decided to make sugar cookies. None of us are bakers. Anyway, the recipe called for 1/2 tsp (I think) of vanilla. My cousin decided that didn't look like enough so she dumped at least a tbsp. in. Then when we were decorating them, we were talking and kind of mechanically putting the sprinkles and sugar on top. Well, my cousin, a smoker, didn't realize it, but she kept dipping her hand in the ashtray and putting the ashes on her cookies!!!

Yeah, those cookies sucked.

Oh man, just picturing that makes me laugh so hard!




My mom makes a cookie that is flavored with anise extract and rolled in powdered sugar. They're not BAD cookies (other people like them, especially my dad), but I personally hate them because I am not a fan of anise. I hate black licorice too.

 

[Jennasis]

Anisette cookies

The wedding cookies

But most of all...flame if you must...The gingerbread shingle cookies from the Grand Floridian. Worst cookie ever! Dh and I both gagged and spit it out.

 

[Becky2005]

The worst cookies I ever made & I still think it was absolutely HILARIOUS that my brother's friend ATE them.

I made some cookies (I think chocolate chip), I don't really remember the kind because it doesn't even matter. It was a basic cookie but it called for Baking SODA -- In my head I was thinking it was some kind of drink (pop/soda pop/Coke, etc...) so I just left it out. I was in High School but obviously cooking is not my strong point. LOL!!! I don't know how I totally blanked on the ingredient.

Oh my goodness...they were absolutely AWFUL and as hard as rock. I fully intended to toss them but my brother's friend came over & he literally ate the whole plate full -- I couldn't believe it. I told him ahead of time they were awful, etc... He wanted to eat them so I told him he was more than welcome to. I'm not even sure HOW he managed to eat them & I don't think he was doing it to not offend me.

I fully realized WHY they came out so bad since I knew I hadn't put the baking soda in...I realized a while later what it was but just had been an airhead I suppose.

I will say I have never in my life made the same mistake. Now..OTHER disasters in the kitchen there are plenty (between me & my mom & now my daughter it is a wonder we have survived some of our mishaps).

 

[eh24fan]

Tonight I made a batch of blondies from a recipe that claims to be like the ones at Applebee's. The comments all said how great they were, etc. Well, I was sooo looking forward to them and they are NOT like the ones at Applebee's and thay just aren't that good.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

The worst cookie I ever ate was a chocolate chip cookie from a pack of cookies that came in a cookie jar shaped like Santa that a friend at work got for Christmas. When he got it, a group of us hung out at his cube and were checking out the cookies. Someone said they smelled weird, and I ate one. They tasted like plastic. They were absolutely horrendous. For some reason, we all found it hysterical. It got the the point where somebody would try one, and someone else would ask what it was like, and they would say "It was awful! Here, try one!"

As for the worst we ever made: there for a while, we had bad luck with chocolate chip cookies, too. A few times in a row, several years ago, we made them and they just didn't come out right. They didn't set up, and burned. I am not sure if it was a problem with the butter or sugar or what.

Also, my MIL used to make these chocolate Italian cookies for Christmas that I absolutely hate. They were dry and tasteless. I beg my wife every year not to make them.