one of my more public mistakes was making a 'cookie cake' for a family baptism party. Visiting my parents' so pulled the stuff out of her kitchen. Easy, peasy...same house I grew up in so everything is still in the same spot. the problem arose because mom switched from butter to 'light margarine' (what IS that stuff anyway?). I did not notice so after baking the nice large train shaped cookie had turned into a thin, greasy, hard, blob thing. With no time to rebake, i cut to shape, decorated and put it out. Once the kids saw it and took pics, mom trashed it and we served store-bought sugar cookies. "That stuff" is usually a combination of a token amount of oil, a lot of water and some gums or starches to hold it all together. No wonder it did unauthorized things to your poor cookie! Susan

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