Ichigo

I feel for you, m'dear. XDD Personally, I find that working Christmas Eve is worser off than Christmas Day. And Boxing day to be worse than them both. For me particularly, the night of Christmas Eve is the one where the family spends a warming evening together :D It'd be a shame to have to miss out on that. Dont' forget, it's not just the hospitality industry that works ungodly hours. The corner convenience store by my house opens early, closes late unfailingly almost 365 days a year. Kudos to all you hardworking souls. <3 I'm very glad I"m not of working age yet.

I tried baking a couple of different types of cookies I've found. All of them are drop cookies since I heard they were the easiest of them all. What exactly are insulated cookie sheets? I've always thought cookie sheets were the big silver pans that you put cookies on. Since you're mentioning sheets... I'm wondering if cookie sheets are actually pieces of paper (?) similar to aluminum foil?? Thanks for all the replies :D I'll know what to watch out for when I bake again.

I just joined this forum... and I'm pretty very inexperienced and I just recently found an interest in baking. But I've been finding that for one reason or another, I've yet to have a batch of cookies turn out right. They're always burnt on the edges and on the bottom before the center of the cookies themselves are done. I thought my oven might just be too strong as all my attempts are always thouroughly brown well before the suggested baking times. So I tried lessening the temperatures (50, even 75 degrees) to no success. The edges still burnt (even though the bottoms were fine). Any ideas on what I can do?? oh... another note. I usually halve or even quarter the recipes. Since I just don't want to bake that large a batches of cookies. Might that have anything to do with it?