We headed to Lider to begin our shopping adventure. Katie wanted to make Nutella brownies, and all she needed was nutella, eggs, and flour! So that was easy. I was not sure what I wanted to make, but I didn't want to have to buy a ton of stuff. I decided I wanted to make smore's bark! It is simple, easy, 3 ingredients, and very United States! However, that did not work out so well. I was able to find marshmallows, but only jumbos. Oh well, I can cut them. However, they do not sell graham crackers at all! So that was a bust. FAIL 1. My next thought was to make cookies, because I do it all the time so I have good experience, and I love them! Next challenge, they do not have brown sugar here. Laura had told me this, but I refused to believe her and we searched and searched. She was right. No brown sugar. FAILED AGAIN. Then I decided I would buy a cake mix and make cute cupcakes! As I was picking out the mix, I realized I do not have a cupcake pan. FAIL 3. I surrendered and bought a cookie mix, which only needed butter and eggs added, so I decided I could handle that. We checked out with our goodies and headed back home.
We got everything set up and ready to begin! I had to wash most of the big bowls and the pans because they hadn't been used in forever and were super gross. Here we are!
We started going, but it was a bit of a struggle even from the start. Obviously Chile uses the metric system, and I am really not as proficient at metric as I should be. Ha. I know Chemistry measurements, but that's about it. So we got out our converters and it was all good. I needed 1/3 cup of butter, which is easy in the states when the butter has measurement lines on it, but not so easy here. Luckily, I found some gram measurements and made it work. We were each putting our own thing together. Katie was struggling because she needed to get the Nutella out of the jar and we did not have a spatula. In case you ever find yourself in this predicament, microwave the nutella for about 15 seconds and it is miraculously more runny and cooperative. I encountered another issue with my dough, because I was only supposed to add 1 egg and 1/3 cup of softened butter to the mix. No oil, no water. So obviously it was just a crumbly mix of ingredients, so I decided to add some milk so it would actually stick together.
We got our batters/dough ready and lit up the oven. The oven proved a challenge as well, because it is gas and has to be lit with a match, and it only heats from the bottom, so the bottom of the pan/desserts are obviously way hotter than the top or sides. It also has no heat degree controls so we just had to watch and hope it would work! Luckily, Katie's brownies turned out great!! We took them out to cool and began the cookie adventure. We don't have a cookie sheet, but I just used a round cake pan and only made 5 cookies at a time. They cooked and got super fluffy! Haha. I think it is because I added milk. The bottoms were getting dark so I took them out. They tasted super good, but were more of a cupcake texture! Ha. I continued making my 5 cookies at a time, and it all worked out. I also tried making one in the toaster oven, since that cooks from the top and the bottom. It actually turned out really well! There's a first time for everything.
Even though we had some struggles, we made it work and ended up mostly successful! They were not the best they could have been, but they tasted good! :)
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