A Fierce Competition

Last weekend we invited our friends Bill and Stepper down for a double date - a cookie bake-off. They accepted the challenge and came down fully prepared to compete for the honor of baking the best cookies during a date night (this is big folks, promise).

So here is the idea: Each couple brings a recipe and ingredients for their cookies, then we swap and make/bake. The couple who makes the best cookies wins. I needed to switch things up a bit however ... so not only did we swap recipes but the wives read the recipes while the husbands did the mixing (for a couple of reasons 1. our hubbies don't bake so I knew this would be amusing and 2. I cannot compete with Stepper's baking skills so this would even the playing field!). The reward would be 2 hours of babysitting time (what parent doesn't want THAT?!).

We chose a chocolate-chocolate chip with Andes mint frosting ... they picked sugar-molasses. WOW - the recipe we had to bake was much more involved!! I told you they were fierce competition. Here are the pictures ...

Jeff and I looking very domestic in our aprons.
It's all fun and games until the real work begins.
The men seriously discussing how to get started ... they were very helpful to each other and then would remember they were supposed to be "competing" needless to say it was much nicer competition than say Fantasy Football is (thank goodness!).
First step ... wash hands ... check!
Jeff measuring and mixing ... check out that concentration ...
The final product sitting on our game of Nerts.
The outcome? Both were very tasty ... so we'll just swap some babysitting time and call it a tie!