Cookies, cookies and more cookies. I used to love Famous Amos cookies dearly and used to buy it all the time. I never got sick of smelling the aroma of cookies emanating from the store at Wisma Atrial I thought that FA cookies were perfection itself, the shape, the right amount of sweetness, the crunchy texture, the nice,even dark brown colour and above all, the taste. That was what sparked off my interest for baking, the determination to replicate it.

I remember the very first time I baked, which was in JC where my classmates were my very first tasters, so to speak. My first attempt was disastrous, having added one stick of butter too many, it became like shortbread instead of cookie, and was very crumbly. Nonethless, they received the approval of many tastebuds and was the first of many to come. I suppose the extra butter made it more buttery and tasty and flavourful. During the 6 months long break, I would borrow various recipe books from the library and copy down the recipes which i felt were nice into my little baking recipe book. I experimented with different recipes, tried out brownies and cheesecakes...And my colleagues at NTUC income were my tasters, so to speak, and my dad was my greatest cookies fan. But ever since the first rather disastrous attempt, my other attempts were more sucessful, though none achieved the standard that I wanted- that of FA. Oh, I know that the standard is too high, no matter how much I tried, how much I crossed my fingers, none came near to it...the colour, the shape( I dun know how they can make it all so evenly shaped and tiny), Soon, I realized that copying FA was quite pointless. I could make MY own cookies, with MY own shape, taste , colour...whatever, as long as I liked it and my friends liked it, that's all that truly matters.

Well, anyway today's cookies turned out very nicely. It was all very crunchy, which was a relieve because there were a few times when I underbaked it, and it was kind of chewy. How nice would it be if I own a candy shop and sell cookies,cakes and chocs....but I think thats just a castle in the air, Singapore just doesnt have the kind of market and I don't have the guts to take risk,be an entrepureur. So i guess it would just remain my interest and hobby. It is certainly satisfying enough to share the cookies with my friends and seeing them enjoy it, I guess thats all that matters.