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| Broken arm (not mine!) and defective cookies |
But it wasn't without its failures. The photo contains exhibits A and B.
Exhibit A. I finished this year's ornament, pulled it out of the oven, and found I hadn't supported one arm properly. The little dude's arm had bent way out of shape. I quickly tried to bend it back into place before it hardened. I broke off the arm - ripped it right out from his shoulder. Ack! I had been so relieved and excited to complete this thing after spending weeks floundering and an entire afternoon putting it together. And there it was, in pieces. I was too heartbroken to even swear at it.
Luckily, I still had a little of the customized grey and flesh color left. I attached (and properly braced!) a new arm before the oven cooled. I checked on him like five times during the 10 minutes it took to re-bake the arm, just to make sure nothing moved out of place. I was so relieved when he came out whole. Whew!
Exhibit B. I make these awesome chocolate cookies with peanut butter centers. They're very time consuming, so I make them only for Christmas. I heard something snap as I was food-processing the peanut butter mixture and noticed the shaft pin had pulled out. It's done this before and, although annoying, can be fastened back in place. I finished the cookies and baked them. The next morning I discovered the shaft had not pulled loose - the base had snapped. A little piece of plastic was missing. Out of a batch of 60 cookies, how many do you think have plastic shards in them?
Sadness.
I thought all I had left was to dip the toffee, but it looks like I need to make another batch of cookies as well. And get a new food processor. And throw out this batch of cookies (they smelled so good when I took this photo).
Damn. No more holiday failures. Please.
Well, on the plus side, it was the ornament's arm that broke, not yours! My blog reader had your photo caption without the photo, looking like the first line of text - I thought you broke your arm for the Holidays! Too bad about the cookies :( It's a shame to have to throw out something that looks and sounds so good. Good luck with the next batch!
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