One of the most fun parts of cooking is when you hear a tip (or come up with one yourself) that makes the cooking easier. Adam at The Amateur Gourmet was dismayed recently when he discovered that he his friend Diana took her cookie sheets with her when she left, and he didn't have any like hers, that were flat and didn't have any sides to them. So he came up with this idea: use the back of the cookie sheet.
He puts parchment paper on the sheet and then uses an ice cream scoop for the cookie dough. He then flattens them a little bit with his wet hand and cooks them a little less than usual, which is something I've always done with my cookies too. He loved the results.
There was a time, when I was between the ages of 9 and 12, when I ate an entire Sara Lee Butter Pound Cake every week. In one night, by the way, with either ice cold milk or ice cold Pepsi (yeah, I like the combo). So I can understand The King's love of pound cake.
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