“Suite” Cookies

Yeah I wrote that on purpose. Cause when you make cookies in a hotel room, it’s a totally different experience then just doing them at home in your own little kitchen with all those wonderful tools we take for granted. I made cookies and I had to just laugh. I just had to share my story with you on how to make “Suite” cookies…

The sad fact that even if a hotel has a “full kitchen” that does not always mean they have all those great tools you would like to use when your cooking. So it’s time to get inventive.

First off you don’t have measuring cups or teaspoons, so pull out one of those small glass cups from the hotel (they’ll measure close to 1 cup), and pull out from the recycling bin a blue top cap from your morning water bottle (a bottle cap will be close to 1 tsp). and while these items may not be spot-on to being the same measurements as your trusty urban tools, they’ll get you close enough to make it delicious.

You don’t have a mixing bowl, but you DO have a small soup-pot. So you’re going to be mixing your wet ingredients in that. using your glass cup scoop out 1-glass cup of sugar and 1-glass cup of brown sugar. Poor out 1 tsp of vanilla (you can just use the vanilla bottles cap for that) and crack 2 eggs into your soup pot, and your 2 sticks of room-temperature butter.

Now you don’t have a blender to get this all mixed, and a wooden spoon just doesn’t mix well enough for this… so roll up your sleeves, wash those hands well think of your pioneer roots and mix that sugar-butter with your hands! And the best part is when you’re done, you can lick away your hard efforts. Then it’s back to the sink and wash well again.

Now I’m a firm believer of mixing your flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt TOGETHER BEFORE adding it to the sugar-butter mix… but your out of soup-pots so what are you going to do? You pull out that small black bucket used for holding the hotel ice. The maids will have left a plastic trash bag in the ice bucket, make sure it’s laid in the bucket well. Scoop out 3-glasses of flour, use your bottle caps to get 1-bottle cap each of baking powder, baking soda and salt and add it to the flour. Pull out you plastic bag and spin it in the air to temporally tie it, and start to shack and mix the flour mixture together.

Now you slowly add small amounts of your trash-bag-flour to your soup-pot sugar butter and now you can use your spoon to mix it all together the best you can. Add the chocolate chips to your mixture. You wont have a fancy cookie scooper so do it the way your mom showed you and just use your spoon and scoop and roll up 2 inch big balls.

Place them on the cookie sheep and in the oven at 350 for 15-18 minutes. When it’s done you’ll need to pull them out… but wait, you don’t have a hot-pad-mitten either so get the hotels bathroom towels and remember layer it thick like to make sure you don’t burn yourself. Tell all the kids to stand back and pull out the cookies from the oven.

Now you don’t have a cookie rack to cool the cookies off, so go to your closet and get the ironing board, take off the cushion padding. The metal base of the ironing board has venting holes so it’ll work out just fine. Make sure they’re all cooled before giving them to the kids cause hot-chocolate chips WILL burn. And there you go. You’ve just survived how to make “Suite” cookies.