Ezinwa's baking chronicles

Colourful cookies without the right tools

So this isn't my first time making cookies, but it's my first time adding colour to it - yellow and pink.

I didn't have those things they use to cut out shapes from dough, so I used my knife to just cut them as rectangular as I could.

Along the line of making cookies, one thing I discovered is that, if you leave your cookie dough in the oven (or microwave in my case because I use the microwave to bake sometimes, instead of my makeshift oven) too long so that the dough “hardens", it will burn, and still not harden.

You're supposed to bake the dough in the oven for a while, then pull it out and allow it to cool. While it's hot, it's still soft. But don't worry, when it cools, it hardens.
So if you leave the cookie dough in the oven for too long, when it hardens, it becomes really hard.  If you don't leave it long enough, it doesn't harden enough (unless you want something a bit soft).
If you put the temperature too high, it burns fast.

I don't know the right temp, but I put the microwave on medium. Also, I don't know how long, so I usually start with 5 minutes.

The picture above is the cookie dough, cut into cookie pieces before putting them into the microwave to bake. See the way I combined pink and yellow. 😁

This is after microwaving for a minimum of 5 minutes at medium (the microwave at home is an old version, so I can't input the particular temperature I want).

This is it as it was cooling. After pulling out the cookies from the microwave, I waited a while before I used my knife to separate them, because they stuck together while in the oven. Normally I should have kept some space in between each cookie before chucking it into the microwave, but I didn't.