Cookies
Final Idea + Recipe:
~Sweet Kiss
Ingredients:
1 box white cake mix
1 box strawberry Jell-o
2 eggs
1/2 c softened butter
6–12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix cake mix, eggs, and butter until combined. Then mix in 3/4 of the Jell-o powder and put the rest aside.
Drop small amounts of dough onto a greased sheet and shape into hearts.
Sprinkle the excess Jell-o powder onto the dough and gently press into the dough.
Bake the cookies for 6–9 minutes. 9 at the max. The edges should just be golden brown. Take them out and let them cool.
As they’re cooling, in a medium bowl melt about 6 oz of the chocolate chips. When the cookies cool, dip half of the heart into the melted chocolate and let the chocolate set.
Idea Generation:
The night we had received the assignment I sat at my desk with my notebook and music playing. I wrote down many ideas, knowing that most of them had probably already been done. To no shock when I looked them up they had. Some of them were a virgin margarita, cotton candy, and a soda cookie. After my defeat with these ideas I went to my friends room to see how he was doing on his homework. We ended up talking for a while about the cookies; him and others helped me to come up with some more ideas based on what they crave at different points of the day. The most liked ones were mac & cheese & marshmallow, taco, peanut butter & pickle, gusher, dirty potato, no bake with Jell-o in the middle, the Love Potion drink without the alcohol, and Red bull. When I had gotten everything that I thought that I needed I headed back to my room to look the ideas over. Two to three hours later I decided to go with two that I thought would work great; the Love Potion and Jell-o. The reason I chose these two was because I had a concept in my mind with the lovey dovey world and wanted to stick with these. I think the Love Potion cookie is creative because you are putting a drink into a cookie and you also have to make it taste almost like the alcoholic version when it is in a cookie. I think the Jell-o cookie is creative because I took a powder that is usually used to create a solid dessert on its own and combined it with a cake batter instead of a cookie dough.

Idea 1 Test:
For the first test, I went with the Love Potion drink. I found a recipe off of Pinterest for blueberry cream cookies and I thought that I could make that work if I tweaked a couple of the steps.






Over all I though the process was fine, but there was too much liquid added into the mix. When you tasted the cookie you couldn’t taste the drink at all, however there was this weird spongy taste.
Idea 2 Test:
For test number 2 I gave up on the drink idea and went with the Jell-o cookie. This didn’t end up awful but also didn’t end up the best.
When I went to the store to get a pre-made cake mix I couldn’t find one because the stores had run out. So, instead of cookie mix I grabbed a cake mix and found out how to make it so the cookie would be a little less cake consistency.





As I was making these, I felt pretty confident because everything was going really well. It wasn’t until I actually started to look at them that I realized that I baked them too long and the the powder on top was a bad idea. I learned that keeping an eye on the coloring is very important and if you are going to put powder on top of a cookie you should stick to one that won’t burn your mouth when accidentally inhaled.
Iteration:
So in the beginning I started out with a drink based cookie and realized that that it was too liquidy, so I changed directions and headed towards a powder based cookie so that it would be thicker.


Timeline:
9/4/18~Come up with ideas, do research into some recipes, and figure out what materials I have in my dorm
9/5/18~Continue research and create a shopping list of supplies
9/7/18~Go get the supplies and do trial and error
9/8/18~Make a couple cookies and leave them in a room temperature room over night
9/9/18~Have people try the creations and give feed back
9/10/18~Finalize ideas and make any final adjustments
9/11/18~Make 12 cookies to bring to class
9/12/18~Bring cookies to class
