Good Cookies, Bisquick Makes Not

During Typhoon downtime, Super-Xpat suddenly got a hankering for chocolate chip cookies, but good ones are hard to come by in Taiwan, much less during a Typhoon.

Fortunately Super-Xpat had a box of Bisquick in the home and remembered a catchy commercial that said something to the effect of, "Bisquick can be used to make anything!" So Super-Xpat thought, "Cookies are anything, therefore Bisquick can be used to make cookies."

Bisquick cannot be used to make cookies.

Non-believers and the curious may read on for pictures and the recipe for cookie disaster.

This was the recipe Super-Xpat found here.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
An easy Bisquick chocolate chip cookie recipe

* 1/4 cup butter, softened
* 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
* 1 egg
* 1 1/3 cup Bisquick
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
* 1 package (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips, or 1 cup other chopped sweet or semisweet chocolate


Mix butter, sugar, and egg. Stir in Bisquick, chopped nuts, and chocolate chips or chunks. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375° for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Makes about 3 dozen chocolate chip cookies.

This is the result:

Everything looks good from this angle right?

OMFG!? What is this?? They're like 2 feet tall!

The texture was cake-like! Super-Xpat wanted cookies. If Super-Xpat wanted bad weather and scones, Super-Xpat would be in England. Can anyone give a little help here?