According to the Betty Crocker website (recipe: at the official Betty Crocker site »), this 2008 award-winning recipe should have been a snap to make.
So, let's see what we have here.
Ingredients:
Cookies
1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Step 1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix cookie mix and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in butter and egg until soft dough forms.
Ok, this should be the easy part, right?
Ok, we've got the mix and the cinnamon in there. I was making a double batch, so I put two packs and twice the cinnamon in there.
Wisk it together and everything's looking good so far.
In order to make things easier, I measure out five inches and mark it off on the wax paper.
Roll out my cinnamon and a little flour to make rolling it easier.
I use my scoop that J-dog got me to get the perfect amount of mix and ... nothing. I can't get the dough out of the scoop, I can't use my hands to pick it out of the bowl and even when I do get it out, it just mushes in my hand; there's no rolling of the dough at all.
So I added another quarter cup of flour hoping to dry it out a little. This is what I got:
Looks good, right? No luck. It was impossible to even scoop it out for basic cookies, let alone following the recipe as instructed.
I probably could have put it in the fridge and maybe it would have solidified a little, but I didn't think about that until I had thrown it out.
Anyone know what I did wrong?
