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

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

I once put cayenne pepper in an apple pie by mistake -- like a tablespoon instead of cinnamon! My poor DH bit into it and I thought he was going to choke to death. Now it's funny...but it's turned into family lore now. Won't ever live that one down!

 

[minniecarousel]

ahhh....brings back memories: Yule Logs. My brothers teased me unmercifully. They were a molasses cookie made into a log and rolled in nuts. They were hard and dry and they looked like.....uh, small yule logs.

 

[skater]

Vegan sugar cookies! And I hated them before I knew they were vegan. They were real bad ! I'm not sure if it was because they were vegan or something else was wrong with them .

 

[arminnie]

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.

I am dying over the garlic bunny cake, toothpaste cookies, and cigarette ash decorated cookies!

I have nothing to match those stories. But when I went off to college my neighbor made me these hideous weird cookies made of some mystery ingredients, rolled in dry coconut and then each one wrapped individually in waxed paper. They must have taken forever to make.

Of course being polite I wrote her a thank you note and lied about enjoying them. She made them for me EVERY single time I came home from college. I never ate one past the first bite I tried. I felt so bad at all the effort she was going to.

 

[Genie 410]

Anything made by my SIL.

 

[Diznygrl]

I am dying over the garlic bunny cake, toothpaste cookies, and cigarette ash decorated cookies!

Gonna have to add cayenne pepper apple pie to that list!

 

[Teacher03]

Oreo balls!! I'm sorry. I know tons of people love the heck out of those suckers, but they are just sickeningly sweet to me.

Same here....I was so excited to make them because of all the rave reviews, but was so disappointed! Nobody in my house ate them, I threw them out.

My mom made the best pies in the world, but the worst cookies! We used to beg her not to make any; just buy them. They were as hard as rocks, only the dog would eat them!

 

[Pigeon]

Not cookies, but my very sweet elderly great aunt loved to cook, and the results weren't always what you'd expect. Her vision was pretty bad at that point.

She once served us a pan of baked macaroni and cheese. It had a peculiar greenish tint that took us awhile to figure out. Instead of grabbing that can of Kraft parmesan to sprinkle on top prior to baking, she'd grabbed the can of Comet cleanser.

On another occasion, she served us apple pie and I found a tea bag baked into my piece.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Wasn't cookies but I tried a receipe for chocolate bread that even the birds wouldn't eat.

 

[Katy Belle]

I found a recipe on a blog for a sgar cookie. She had iced them baby blue and they were so cute! I made them for a bake sale. They were hard and completely hollow insde! It reminded me of the movie Christmas vacation with that dry, dry turkey! I had to quickly make something else!

 

[Jennasis]

My grandma used to make brownies all the time. They were okay but nothing special. Well as she got older and more senile, the browies began to suffer, until the last year she made them she plopped the pan down all excited to give us "her" brownies only for us to discover they were completely raw. Seems she forgot to turn on the oven and just let them sit ina cold oven for 45 minutes.

 

[MulanUSAF]

If you have read "Anne of Green Gables", you know that part where she put what she thought was vanilla into a cake, but it's really some sort of medicine? Well, I did pretty much the same thing. I didn't know my mom re-used the vanilla extract bottle to store soy sauce and I didn't smell it that day because I had a cold. Well, those were the most awful cookies ever, they tasted like dog biscuits

 

[Mickeypooh99]

When I was about 11 years old, I was making chocolate chip cookies with my mom, and for some reason I just noticed this latch on the oven door. I asked my mom what it was as I slid it across to latch it. She yelled "don't latch that!" It was the lock for oven cleaning. It had a safety feature that once it was locked it wouldn't unlock until the oven cooled down to a certain temperature. So even though we turned the oven off right away, those cookies were in the oven for like an hour. They were really bad, and they smelled up the whole kitchen.

The worst I have ever eaten were from a friend. She made no bake cookies. She thought no bake meant no cook. She mixed them all up, but skipped the part where you cook them on the stove. She just plopped the raw cookies onto wax paper. She couldn't figure out what she did wrong. When we asked her how long she boiled them she kept saying that you don't have to boil them, they were no bake cookies!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

I had my own "No bake" disaster last year. I have no idea what I dod wrong but they were awful. They honest to god looked and tasted like crap. In the trash they went.

My son decided he was going to bake brownies once. He was so proud of himself and they looked really good until you tried one. They bounced. Yes people they bounced. Like a rubber ball I tell you.

My aunt makes these chocolate chip cookies every year and I love them. They look horrible but they are good. (or maybe I'm just used to them) They look like little tiny flat pancakes with chocolate chips sitting on top.

 

[HOGFAN]

my aunt made some fudge but instead of grabbing the sugar she must have grabbed the powdered detergent... it was AWFUL!!!

 

[RadioNate]

I made sugar cookies once that ended up like rocks. I don't know what happened. There was an unknown leak under the kitchen sink so the floor was weakened but I dropped a tray of these cookies and the floor gave way. My family jokes that my nasty sugar cookies cracked the floor.

 

[cm8]

I made sugar cookies once that ended up like rocks. I don't know what happened. There was an unknown leak under the kitchen sink so the floor was weakened but I dropped a tray of these cookies and the floor gave way. My family jokes that my nasty sugar cookies cracked the floor.

, WOW!

 

[curious3069]

I made a test batch of candy this week that was beyond awful. A co-worker makes it every year and it's totally trashy, but delicious. It should have been easy-Peanut butter, almond bark, rice crispies, marshmallows. Wellll, I didn't have almond bark, so I used white chocolate chips. This, apparently, does not work. They didn't melt to a liquid consistancy, just combined with the peanut butter to form a sort of doughy looking mixture. I also thought it would be a good idea to add some vanilla extract to cut down on the sweetness. This did not improve the texture at all. I decided to give it a shot anyway and dumped it over the cereal I substituted (rice chex, no marshmallows). This, apparently, does not work. It sort of mixed together, but not really and it was just a clumpy mess. Plus it just tasted funky, the white chips just didnt' taste all that good and totally overpowered the peanut butter.

After 41 years, you would think I would learn to not try to make my own substitutions!!!!!

 

[curious3069]

Not cookies, but my very sweet elderly great aunt loved to cook, and the results weren't always what you'd expect. Her vision was pretty bad at that point.

She once served us a pan of baked macaroni and cheese. It had a peculiar greenish tint that took us awhile to figure out. Instead of grabbing that can of Kraft parmesan to sprinkle on top prior to baking, she'd grabbed the can of Comet cleanser.

On another occasion, she served us apple pie and I found a tea bag baked into my piece.

Ok, the comet thing is scary (thank goodness it's green!), I can't stop laughing about that tea bag!

 

[crashbb]

My son decided he was going to bake brownies once. He was so proud of himself and they looked really good until you tried one. They bounced. Yes people they bounced. Like a rubber ball I tell you.

Did he use a mix? He probably used too much water. At least, that is how I made a bouncing cake.

I made a cake for my parents, who had been away, when I was about 8. My nanny was supervising but she didn't read english and had never made a cake from a box mix. I had just learned at school that when you have a mixed fraction, the whole number is written bigger than the numbers in the fraction. So, when the box called for 1 1/4 cups of water, I assumed it need 11/4 cups (or almost 3 cups). The mixture was runny, but I hadn't made many box cakes, so I didn't know it was wrong. It also took FOREVER to cook. And, yes, it bounced.