I had to share this, as if there are other “try hard” bakers out there like myself, you might make this same horrendous resulting baking mistake.

I whipped up a batch of what looked like delicious vanilla & oat cookies, they puffed up nicely, looked the right consistency, smelled luscious, until I served them up on a plate… luckily just to Martin, only to find they had this serious salty taste to them.  I couldn’t understand how it could happen, there was no ingredients that contained salt, no peanut butter, nothing.

Then I thought, perhaps it’s the ground flax seed (it was my first time using it ground, I thought that might just be the taste) but then I thought “no, can’t be” I’ve been using the flax in my pancake mix and that doesn’t taste salty. Then I remembered that the recipe I had seen said 1 tablespoon of baking soda, which I did think was excessive at the time, but I followed it.  Now having googled too much baking soda, guess what, yep, too much makes your cookies salty nasty tasting. Me thinks that perhaps it should have been 1 TEASPOON of baking soda!

So I am going to try again, this time with the much smaller measure of baking soda and see how I get on.

Bless Martin, he ate those cookies… I’m seriously thinking I’ve impaired his taste buds over the years with my concoctions.

I’ve put a photo of my cookies so you can see how looks can be deceiving, looks good but eughhhhh!