Learning how to make cookies made me avoid them

Circa 2018 – I think… One of my teammates (hello, ate Dana) brought a bag of chewy cookies the size of my palm with rock salt on top of it. We ate it at 9 pm starting our shift with sugar rush as we go through the night shift, doing our best to work well, and get through it with our sanity in tact. I know it wasn’t stress, and I also know it was the best chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever had in my life. I had the honour to taste it again a few weeks later, but since, she left the team, and I left the company, I never found another cookie that had the same taste, the same feeling. Since then, I’ve been ordering cookies from wherever. Whenever I see a small cookie stall by the mall, I make sure I get some. Still, nothing beats the original. When I had the chance to learn how to make cookies, thanks to my husband and his baking family, my first thought right away was to attempt to bake cookies. I learned the recipe. I read different ones to be sure. I watched countless videos to see how…