Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Includes a cookie recipe made by yours truly.
Sugar Rush
Poem written on October 30th, 2022
Sweet like sugar to the touch
Add the ingredients to the mix
Just enough, not too much
All our worries we can fix
I think I've got a sugar rush
Phebe's Cookie Recipe
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. 3/4 cup of white sugar (preferably coconut)
3. Mix in the bowl.
4. 1 egg, beat into the bowl with mix
5. 3 cups of flour (preferably all-purpose, coconut/almond)
6. 1/4 teaspoon of salt (optional)
7. Mix in the bowl again.
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If you want to put extra items to give more flavor, here are some options:
1. (For Christmas) 1/2 cup of crushed candy cane (put it in a ziplock bag and
smack it with a spoon until very small chucks remain)
2. (Other) 3-4 teaspons of vanilla (I FORGOT HOW MUCH EXACTLY)
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8. After that (I tend to use an ice cream scooper) take out one tablespoon worth of batter
and roll it into a ball onto the pan (don't forget parchment paper).
9. Each cookie should be about 1.5 inches from the other but it doesn't matter
too much since they shouldn't compress when baled.
10. Put the cookies in the oven for 8-10 minutes and let them cool for 1-3 afterwards to harden.
While they are baking, if you want to add this on top of the cookies:
1. Get a new bowl and put 3/4 cup of confectioners sugar
2. Add 5 teaspoons of warm water
3. (If you want to add at the end) 2 tablespoons of crushed candy cane (but don't put it in the bowl)
When doing this you want to mix the sugar and warm water until it comes out as a nice and smooth
icing, when the cookies are done and hardened you dip each cookie into the icing then you can either
dip them into a bowl of crushed candy cane or just sprinkle it on top, as long as it gets on the cookie.
After that let it sit for five minutes to harden again.
EXPLANATION
I originally had another idea for this poem, it was a story about a girl who was baking cookies with a guy she liked. I write about how I envisioned the cookies as the guy she liked - a masterpiece in the making. But as I wrote it I felt it was pushing to be longer than needed. Although I don't like short poems, my friends said this poem was probably better off being short, so I stuck with that. What essentially happened in this poem is still the same as the initial idea, except shorter, I guess. In the first line, I imagine she is talking about both the cookies and the boy, the cookies being sweet, and the touch resembling the boy. The next two are pretty self-explanatory, but the third line is between both the girl and the boy. I view the girl as liking this guy not too nervous to express her feelings for him, so she's going to express her love for him in these cookies (even though he'd never know). And then she gets a sugar rush, either from the embarrassment of thinking of expressing her love to him, being around/close to him, or (a funnier one) zones out too much and puts too much sugar. This poem is very open to creative interpretation for readers. I even thought about connecting this poem to another work I've done, specifically Lily and Lucas from Snow In Autumn. I actually have another story I wrote about them when they were still students but I lost it after my high school deleted my Gmail when I graduated.
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SONG CHOICE
I chose Teenage Dream by Katy Perry as the poem's song as one of the few songs I think could represent this song. When I wrote this, I thought of what kind of songs would the two be playing through the radio, speakers, etc as they baked, since I always play music when I bake. I was envisioning early 2010's, since I (for some reason) have a thing of writing poems from the past and finishing at the present. So I made a playlist! I envision Lily as one of those girls who enjoys a lot of romance/sexy pop (that's not too obvious), so there's a lot of nostalgic songs with that in mind.
