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You know, there’s a certain fallacy to the no-bake cookie.  I’d like to spend a moment talking to you about that.

I like no-bake cookies.  I like them a lot.

But no-bake cookies imply a certain ease of preparation, I think.  I mean, the whole idea is crazy.  A cookie you don’t have to bake!  That’s just lunacy.  But then there they are, and they’re very tasty cookies.

So you have this idea that creating no-bake cookies are easier than making up a batch of any normal cookie.  It’s right there in the title.  With the regular cookies, you’ve got the mixing the batter and the scooping it out and the baking it, which means you have to oil the sheets and use the timer, and isn’t that so much work? 

But the no-bake cookie?  You don’t have to bake it!  You can just mix the dough and then you’re done!  No baking?  You could make them now!

You’re all ready for the no-bake cookies, aren’t you?

Then you realize that you have to refrigerate the no-bake cookies overnight.  And that’s where your love affair with the no-bake cookie ends.  Because why would you want to wait a whole night for the cookies?  You might as well just bake them after all.  The baking, what does that take?  Twenty minutes?  Or you have to wait twelve hours for the no-bake cookies.

You lose on the instant gratification issue, but also you have to clean out your fridge because no way are you going to get cookie sheets in your fridge like it is now.  No way.  That’s even more work.  Clean out the fridge just to make cookies?  This is becoming a huge project now, isn’t it?  All of a sudden, that trouble with the oiling and the timing and the baking, that’s not so much trouble, is it?

And that’s what I’m saying here: the no-bake cookie lies to you.  It implies an ease to the cookie-making process that just doesn’t exist.