Only Make One Dozen Cookie

C 1968 by Jim Brooks

This occurred after Darlene and I had been married about six months.  Darlene mentioned that she was going to make some chocolate chip cookies.  Before I went off to work, I reminded her that I was on a “light” diet, so requested that she only make one dozen cookies (none of my diets ever excluded any of Darlene’s cookies).  So she immediately began putting things together to make a batch of dough for the cookies.  She was about to bake them when she realized that she had made a triple batch of dough with chips – intended for 3 dozen cookies.

When I got home I asked how her day went and she replied, “Well I made your cookies and I only made one dozen.”  I said, “Great, let me take a look.”  And there they were, twelve cookies, about sixteen inches in diameter.  I looked surprised for a moment and then kissed her for her cleverness.  Her cookies met specifications – only twelve.  No-one specified how large they should be.  They were so large she said that they had to be cooked one at a time.  And they tasted great!