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When you rush through a recipe, you might just end up making it wrong. Or in my case, make a completely different recipe all together which is how I unintentionally baked Milk Bar’s Chocolate-Chocolate cookies.

I had every intent on making the Milk Bar Compost Cookies as my final Milk Bar recipe but I accidentally made these Chocolate-Chocolate cookies instead, which means, I’ll still have one final Milk Bar recipe to share at a later date.

But for now, let this be a lesson in reading the recipe.

As I was saying, I fully intended on making Compost Cookies a few Sundays ago. I skimmed the recipe ingredients, made my grocery list and headed off to buy everything I needed to make these cookies — butterscotch chips, pretzels, potato chips.  And upon returning home I got to work making my compost cookies.

Except, as I skimmed through the recipe one more time, I noticed a call out for graham cracker crumbs. I hurriedly read a little further into the recipe and realized that in order to make the Compost Cookies, I first had to make the Milk Bar Graham Cracker crumbs.

And on top of that, I didn’t have any graham crackers for the Milk Bar Graham Cracker crumb recipe so I hauled myself out to the grocery store one more time to grab a box of graham crackers.

I came home, hurriedly swiped to the graham cracker crumb recipe (swiped because I was using the ) and knocked out the required graham cracker crumbs.  I quickly swapped back to the Compost Cookie recipe and began mixing.

In went the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, melted chocolate….

And it’s here where I should have paused..

As I added the melted chocolate something in the back of my mind though ‘Wait, there wasn’t any melted chocolate in the Compost Cookies’ but I brushed it away and continued onward.

I added in the flour, the salt, and baking powder and then read ‘add the chocolate cookies crumbs’

Again, everything came to a halt and I thought ‘Chocolate cookie crumbs? What? I made GRAHAM CRACKER CRUMBS? What the heck are chocolate cookies crumbs?’

And that’s when I swiped to the beginning of my recipe and saw that in my hurry to make the Compost Cookies after baking the graham cracker crumbs, I accidentally opened the wrong cookie recipe.

I was about 90% of the way through making Milk Bar’s Chocolate-Chocolate cookies so I hit pause. Knocked out MORE cookie crumbs, this time chocolate, and finished the batch of cookies.

So what was the end result?  A salty, chocolate cookie that I was gloriously unimpressed with.

To be honest, Christina Tosi does note that these cookies are salt-forward but for me, they were too heavily salted resulting in an unenjoyable cookie.  However, I do have leftover chocolate cookie crumbs that are delicious a top vanilla ice cream — one of the perks from my Milk Bar blunder!

The other perk — at least the graham cracker crumbs can be frozen and are now ready-to go the next time I’m inspired to make Milk Bar’s Compost Cookies.

Have you ever had as similar experience where you missed ingredients or made the wrong recipe? I’d love to hear about it just so my own ego doesn’t feel quite as bruised.