Raison Drop Cookies

DISASTER! I was intrigued by this recipe because of the ingredient Mace, which I blogged about earlier. Mace is the red coating over the nutmeg nut. I purchased some to make this recipe. Also this was one of the mystery fat recipes. So I mixed a batch of dough, using butter for this first try. Using the ingredients exactly as they were written, I thought the dough seemed a little runny. The recipe did say to refrigerate until the dough was cold which I thought would help the consistancy. After about four hours I took the dough out and dropped them by teaspoonfulls onto a cookie sheet. The recipe also states to flatten them slightly with a fork dipped in flour. You definitely needed the flour as the dough was quite sticky. I put the cookies into the oven to bake and when the timer went off I went to take the cookies out. They were so flat, they had run together and looked like one big cookie. I tried taking them off, but were so soft they just mushed together, so I just ended up with this "pile" of one big lump of cookie. The second pan looked the same, but I thought maybe I should let them cool before I took them off the cookie sheet. That turned out to be a big mistake also and they had now adhered to the pan. I could barely scrape them off the cookie sheet. Needless to say this batch of cookies hit garbage can almost immediately. There's always next weekend!