Bake a new type of cake or cookies you've never tried before.

“So, great idea. Horrible execution. I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into. [...] 1. Find sugar cookie recipe 2. Attempt to make sugar cookie recipe 3. Realize sugar cookies are actually pretty hard to make 4. Contemplate how the bakers at Target make it look so easy 5. Blame the oven for the sugar cookies spreading into unrecognizable blobs (that's an "I"???) [...] 12. Attempt to make and use royal icing and piping bags for the very first time ever 13. Lament at what a horrible mother, woman, human I am 14. Why did I go to college? I can't even get a piping bag to work! 15. Go back online and try to find anyone who can make these for me instead [...] 18. Use new royal icing recipe. This one is better...meaning I can actually pipe some semblance of a straight line and the icing is only a little lumpy”

“These cookies had another ingredient that I had never heard of before, almond extract. It gives the cookies just that little extra nut flavor atop the roasted pecans that works beautifully. [...] These bad boys are big and fluffy so don’t be worried you’re making them too big. I thought there was no way these were going to cook thoroughly but I promise they do! [...] My oven took 20 minutes until the cookies were golden brown. I wasn’t sure if they were baked all the way through but trusted in the recipe!”

“So I ordered the custom street sign, cut out gross amounts of paper products (cupcake wrappers, invitations, party favor tags, etc.), and got some matching balloons. And then I lost my mind and decided to, for the first time ever, make the dessert. [...] The cookies, however, were a different story. First of all, I had to have the whole Sesame Street theme going [...] So, great idea. Horrible execution. I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into. All I knew is I had a little almost two-year-old girl who couldn't wait to have her birthday cookies and I had no backup plan.”