Tea.
Yes, you read that right. Tea. Needless to say, I and the other parents panicked a little about that. I'm not a baker. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Give me anything to write but don't expect me to put it in the oven. When the kids want to bake Christmas cookies, they go to Grandma's.
So I asked Grandma, "Got any cookie recipes with tea in them?"
"Tea???"
"Yep."
She didn't. And that's when I really started to panic. She was the "baker" and had no recipes with tea.
Ever Google "Tea" and "Cookies"? LOL you get a lot of recipes for cookies that go with tea, not necessarily ones that are made with tea in them.
Youngest started saying, "Well, maybe we can just tell them it has tea in it." The kids know about my baking skills or rather, the lack thereof. She was losing faith in our ability to pull this off.
I did manage to find one that had Chai tea and eggnog. Youngest and I like eggnog so that got a second look. It was also easy peasy to fix. It used a sugar cookie mix to build from. Something this non-baker could handle. We decided to try it, though we didn't have high hopes.
And how did they turn out? We WON best cookie! They are pretty good if I say so myself. The judge was going to make them to take to her cookie exchange and grandma is talking about making them when the kids come to visit and bake over the holiday.
Tea was definitely an unexpected ingredient but it worked out very well.
That's sometimes how writing a story turns out. When I first started Taming the Fire, the first in the Fire Riders series, I was thinking it was going to be a standard romance. Only another character popped into the lineup. And he wanted to be included in the mix as well. My m/f romance quickly became a m/m/f. The story definitely benefited from that addition. Just like the cookies that we made benefited from some chai tea.
Mechele Armstrong
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