Oh Dear

I have a cookie recipe (from Jamie Oliver) that is written in grams (because of Jamie Oliver!) so it asks for, for example, 250 grams of whatever instead of a cup amount.

I have made these cookies a good amount of times since I found the recipe and I was about to make them this weekend when my kitchen scale ran out of batteries.

Batteries that I *knew* I was out of but didn't see a rush to get more so.... I didn't.

I did find a small flashlight that uses the same kind of batteries (triple As) but ironically they were low power too (or so the scale said) (and yes I know this might mean the scale itself is dying but I do think it's just two sets of low/old AAAs) so I was S.O.L on measuring by grams.  Bugger.

I had managed to get the butter measured before the scale gave out but I still needed to measure the sugar and flour (the chocolate chips we just do by heart... as in I always over measure so just use the half of the bag that is left from the last time I made the cookies!)

I texted my neighbour to see if she was home but she wasn't and turns out she has neither a kitchen scale nor any triple A batteries anyway so I was packing things away when my brain reminded me that I could convert the gram amount to cup amount and it would probably be fine!  ("Probably" being the operative word here!)

So I used the old google and unfortunately got kind of unclear responses (some sites gave me different measurement amounts for sugar than for flour etc) so I made up the batter as best I could, knowing it wouldn't likely be perfect and I did give it a quick taste test and it was a bit on the sweet side but I figured I could live with that?

Off they went into the oven and at the proper time I checked on them and... um... well the measurements were NOT accurate y'all!

Instead of the cookies I am used to I opened the oven to discover super spread out and thin discs.   D'oh.

I kept them in the oven a bit longer (almost burning one batch... ahem) and I'll be putting them in the freezer (as I always do with cookies) and I'm hoping they're edible if a bit weird and I'll be going to pick up some batteries in the next couple of days!

So yeah, I made "chocolate chip discs" of some kind, oops!