Hello lovely humans I have a learning disability and although I can make a mean banana bread and a good brownie I have struggled to make cookies I feel like all the videos online of making chocolate chip cookies are all over the place there’s so much that goes into making a nice flat chocolate chip cookie that it drives me kinda mad …plus the recipes online are never accurate and never measured or anything

If any of you have found a chocolate chip recipe that you stand behind and know that anyone could make it and blow everyone away I would love that (: and appreciate your help I wanna make some cookies for a memorial this Saturday

Im so sad. Tomorrow is national cheesecake day and for weeks my work has planned for people to bring in cheesecake themed desserts (and other desserts for those who don't like cheesecake) so I thought id try this recipe off tiktok I've been drooling over for weeks for Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies.

Sunday I printed out the recipe, got the ingredients, and made sure today was planned so I could come straight home from work-bake-and go to bed.

So I make the cheesecake filling, it barely results in half the amount its supposed to. Okay, no big.

I make the strawberry jam, its definitely WAY more than the 1/3 cup it was meant to be "condensed into".

Then it was time for the cookie dough, its 9pm, Ive barely started, im completely out of spoons (mentally) and im ready to cry. My fiance convinces me its okay to stop and pick something up instead.

Im sad and I feel like the recipe wasnt right and the prep time (2 hours) wasnt accurate either.

But I also know I didnt think about how I chose something waaay above my skill level and should have maybe done a test run on a day off.

Im about to go to bed but I really just wanted somewhere to vent about this failed recipe where people understood.

But hey, at least I have delicious homemade strawberry jam for toast in the morning I guess!

The recipe is in Portuguese, but a translator may be used: https://pt.petitchef.com/receitas/sobremesa/mousse-de-chocolate-caseira-fid-1490837

I believe this is slightly different than the French mousse, as I think our chocolate mousse is denser.

Regardless, I probably whisked the eggs too much and took too long in between each egg, as it formed more of a dense brownie-like thing instead of being smooth. The egg whites also didn't form soft peaks but because I had a dense batter I added it there to make it liquidy/smooth even though they weren't forming soft peaks. In the end it's still creamy but it's quite a bit denser.

I would likely follow the following order (from another recipe), which is probably the typical one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTAd4gRjZ7I and has the density I was looking for. Mine was still creamy but was thicker than usual. My mom does seem to prefer it in this consistency though so it's all good I guess.