Pinbusters – Testing Pinterest’s too-good-to-be-true recipes and crafts

Picture from Pintrest showing 90 second chocolate chip cookies.  Courtesy Art
Picture from Pintrest showing 90-second chocolate chip cookies. Courtesy Art

By Taylor Griffin
Arts & Entertainment Editor

I’m always down for unconventional ways of making recipes. As soon as I found Lauren Conrad’s 90-Second- Cookies pin a while back, I knew I had to test it out.

Clearly, that was a monumental mistake. Not only did the cookies not turn out at all like the photo, On top of that, it took some time and a lot of elbow grease to finally get rid of the burned cookie residue.

The point of the recipe is to have quick and easy cookies in under 90 seconds. To me, it would have been a lot less trouble to simply pop them in the oven for a few minutes longer.
Lauren Conrad, your cookies were a travesty.

Name
Lauren Conrad’s 90-Second Cookies

Disaster struck when attempting to try out the 90-second shocolate chip cookies in a waffle iron by A&E Editor Taylor Griffin. Taylor Griffin | A&E Editor
Disaster struck when attempting to try out the 90-second shocolate chip cookies in a waffle iron by A&E Editor Taylor Griffin.
Taylor Griffin | A&E Editor

Originally pinned from
laurenconrad.com/blog/post/sweet-tooth-90-second-cookies

Originally pinned from
laurenconrad.com/blog/post/sweet-tooth-90-second-cookies

What went wrong
Not only did the cookies burn on the bottom, but the dough in the middle barely cooked. Even letting them bake for a few more minutes only made them worse.

Final consensus
Tweaking the recipe might work in this case. The way I see it, the only way to make it look like the photo from the website (or at least make it work) would be to add a bit of pancake batter to help them fluff up. As of now, I’m convinced that’s what Lauren Conrad did. I tried different amounts of cookie dough several times as well, to no avail. In the end, all I had were inedible, sad-looking cookies.