Rum Cookies

Quick background: So one of the vets at Joseph's clinic just got back from a cruise and brought everyone Caribbean Rum Cake. Joseph picked out an amazing pineapple flavored one and it was absolutely delicious. I've been craving rum desserts ever since so I went off in search of an easy recipe that I could make with ingredients in my kitchen. Thank goodness for the internet because I found this cookie recipe fairly easily. I halved the recipe since I was only making cookies for 2 people, but here's the full one:

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter

1.5 cups granulated sugar

4 cups self-rising flour (you can use all purpose with 1 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt)

2 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

2 tbsp rum

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

2. Mix butter, sugar. Add eggs and mix. Add flour, baking powder, and rum and mix.

3. Drop 1 tbs portions and press with fork.

4. Bake 8-15 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen cookies. (With my half recipe, I made small cookies and ended up with around 40 of them. The baking time was also shortened to around 6 minutes.)

Reaction: They turned out... interesting (family code word for "not so great"). They both looked and tasted like biscuits, although very sweet biscuits to be sure. I don't know if it's because I used the all purpose flour substitution or that I used light margarine rather than butter. Then there's also the fact that I lost count of the amount of baking powder I put in and may have put in an extra teaspoon... But the dough was very thick and sticky, which made it difficult to work with. And I didn't enjoy using my hands as much as I usually do because the batter was too rum-full to lick off my fingers. However, they lost the rum flavoring while baking :(

Lessons learned: If the dough doesn't look right, then the cookies probably won't turn out right.

Verdict: I'm giving up on cookies. I've only had success with one type (peanut butter), but I like the Girl Scout peanut butter sandwiches more. I also like Oreos a whole lot. My advice is that if you want a rum dessert, go for a cake.