The stove I ordered had to go back as it wasn’t the stove I thought I had ordered. I wanted dual fuel, gas on top, electric oven, and what was delivered was gas on top, gas oven.

I am not sure if you’ve ever baked with gas. Let’s just say it isn’t ideal.

Back to drawing board.

I picked out a new stove and they are supposed to keep the deliver/installation charge from the first stove.

Confused? Because the installation people are. I have a phone call in to them.

Guess what? The holidays are mucking up the timing.

New stove #2 will be delivered to my house on the Saturday after Christmas. It would be ideal if I could get the installation worked out before the end of the year.

Don’t worry, I will be calling them back.

So no new stove to try out for the last Cookie Thursday is a Thing of 2025. Instead I will hopefully be ringing in 2026 with a new oven.

Fingers crossed.

I mean, the airfryer is an airfryer/toaster oven combination so I am not totally in the weeds.

But still.

This left me cookieless on the last CTIAT of the year.

I pulled out a recipe that I’ve been wanting to do for No-Heat August for literal years.

It is 5 bags of chocolate chips, 2 containers of peanuts.

In hindsight, it makes entirely too much candy.

Like way too much.

Like who at the hospital can I give the excess to too much.

If I make this again, I will halve the recipe and use half bags of chips and 1 container of peanuts.

It is a good empty out the baking pantry recipe though.

The 5 bags were

1. caramel chips
2. semi-sweet chocolate chips
3. white chocolate chips
4. butterscotch chips
5. milk chocolate chips.

I used the crockpot to melt the chips, added the peanuts, heated it some more and used my cookie scoop to portion out the candy. And portion out the candy. And portion out the candy.

I placed the candy scoops as close as I could on 3 parchment paper lined cookie sheets and I still ended up with 3 full to the bursting sheets of 5 chip peanut clusters.

Did I mention it was a lot?

I took an entirely full cookie containment device to the hospital. And portioned out 2 full smaller containers for the other at the 0700 meeting.

I still have an entirely full sheet of peanut candy.

I will be handing these out to other units.

But I really should’ve realized I was in trouble when the chips and the peanuts filled up my entire crockpot.