Intrusive thoughts won. I present chocolate chip cookies baked with butterscotch sauce.
Posted by Efeyester@reddit | shittyfoodporn | View on Reddit | 42 comments
I made more regular cookies than these failures at least. These butterscotch ones smell bad but don't taste bad, just blander than the regular cookies.
Taolan13@reddit
Love the cookies, but I hate the internet's vapid misuse of "intrusive thoughts"
you didnt have an intrusive thought, you just had an idea. You need to iterate on this a bit more and find out the ideal ratio of extra dry ingredients to compensate for the extra wet infredients.
or, mix your chocolate chips 50-50 with butterscotch chips. that's how I do my otmeal cookies.
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
Yeah I got a crash course in the comments about intrusive thoughts. Honestly I see you attribute the Internet but my use of intrusive thoughts came from how my social circle uses it, though admittedly they probably got it from the internet.
I never knew it was some sort of OCD or psychiatric thing. I do feel bad for misusing it. I thought I was just making a joke of doing a clearly bad idea that I knew was bad - baking with butterscotch sauce on top of cookies - and making it a joke about how it's a much scaled down version of how I thought (before today) intrusive thoughts were about imagining about murdering everyone around you or raping someone walking by before you just shake your head and move on. Kinda like "oh your intrusive thoughts are about rape and murder, but I have intrusive thoughts about ruining cookies everyday", granted I have both.
Honestly I genuinely thought these thoughts, the rape and murder ones, were what intrusive thoughts were, but I found out today I was wrong. Now I have no idea what to call my random thoughts of murdering people, but that's a Google search for another time.
But you live and you learn, so I'll probably never call anything an intrusive thought again.
Also, I think I've typed thought enough for a week with this comment...
Taolan13@reddit
The fuck? no, random thoughts about rape or murder still count as intrusive. its not exclusive to ocd/adhd/psychosis.
What makes the thought intrusive is it being a departure from your social normalcy, both externally to societal norms and internally to your own character.
Having an idea for an addition or substitution to a recipe, even if you think it might not turn out so great, isn't an intrusive thought. Unless it's pineapple on pizza that's practically a war crime.
Randomly thinking "if I nudge that guy standing on the edge of the road he'll fall down the cliff" isn't necessarily intrusive, it depends on tone. Could be your brain making a note to avoid causing doom unto others. Could be a homicidal fantasy.
thinking "I should dox this random redditor for misusing psychological terms and violate their lower intestines with a baseball bat" is hella intrusive.
Everybody has intrusive thoughts. Most people just don't notice them because they get caught by subconscious filters that develop over our formative years. Where it becomes a problem is when you find yourself dwelling on intrusive thoughts, where they endlessly resurface. The same thought coming up again and again. Breaking free of that sort of obsessive loop can be difficult for neurotypical people, and virtually impossible for certain flavors of neurospicy.
liberatedhusks@reddit
Next time you would butterscotch or caramel inside your cookie, buy those individually wrapped caramel, make cookie ball, stuff in cookie and bake that. It’s great. I usually do an apple spice cider one with the caramel inside
canolafly@reddit
What is this magical recipe? I must make.
RinTheLost@reddit
Not OP, but here's a few cookie recipes that do that so you can get an idea of the process. It's really that simple, and should work with just about any drop-style cookie dough or candy that melts with heat.
Grand-Cap-7072@reddit
You could use butterscotch chips in the cookies. They have them in the baking aisle
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
Oh I know, I just let my curiosity get the better of me. I debated trying the sauce for days before just doing it today.
I have like 3 bags of butterscotch chips in my pantry.
catsgoprrrrr@reddit
Butterscotch comes in chocolate chip form. They're called butterscotchies, and they're the best way to add butterscotch to cookies.
Which reminds me, I need to bake some butterscotch cornflake cookies.
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
Oh I know, I just let my curiosity get the better of me. I debated trying the sauce for days before just doing it today.
I have like 3 bags of butterscotch chips in my pantry.
MoveSavings1199@reddit
I'd trim them up with scissors and quietly eat them all immediately, and feel very pleased about it.
Putrid-VII@reddit
That's not what an intrusive thought is
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
I called it intrusive because I knew it was a bad idea, and I knew it was a bad idea a few days ago but did it anyways.
KoreKhthonia@reddit
To give you some more context.
People who experience intrusive thoughts as a psychiatric symptom -- in the context of mental health issues, with OCD commonly associated with them -- often aren't thrilled by people using the term "intrusive thoughts" as casual vernacular hyperbole.
Intrusive thoughts, in the proper clinical sense, are a very distinct and often very distressing phenomenon to experience.
Disclaimer: I cannot personally speak for people who experience true intrusive thoughts, and am basing this on sentiment I've often seen expressed by those people, both publicly (e.g. on social media) and in private conversations.
Mutchneyman@reddit
A good example of an intrusive thought (as someone who gets them) is "I have the compulsive urge to use a brick to smash the skull of the person next to me" rather than "Let's cook a quirky dish"
AdministrativeEnd168@reddit
Thank you for saying this because I’m really sick of having to read these people continuously rave about their OCD and intrusive thoughts like it’s a fuckin joke. I have severe OCD and I have been having horrible symptoms the past few days. It really sucks seeing other people use it as a silly way to make fun of themselves like thanks for making what I go through a fucking joke to everyone.
KoreKhthonia@reddit
Np! I think people say stuff like OP's title bc they're just not aware, or don't realize, that it's kind of offensive because the psych term they're using as a casual joke is a real and awful thing that other people live with.
Same with "psychotic," at least imo. I feel like it's problematic to throw that around how people do, especially because it's so often used (casually/vernacularly) toward people who aren't good people, or are doing something morally wrong.
onceapotate@reddit
I don't typically mind the "I'm so OCD, all my pens have to be in order" type schtick but for some reason the wording of this post really irritated me and I think you put that into words. Intrusive thoughts are not a fun, cookie-baking-experiment time 🙃 I'm glad a comment pointing that out made it to the top.
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
Interesting,
I had no idea that intrusive thoughts heralded from mental health issues. I just assumed it came from how sometimes people regularly think about violently murdering everyone around them, or maybe raping a passerbye before they shake their thoughts away knowing that they wouldn't even enjoy the act. At least, that was my understanding of them
snekhoe@reddit
You are correct. Your cookie idea was not an intrusive thought, but the definition as you understand it is correct.
sillygoofygooose@reddit
Well not quite, what characterises intrusive thoughts is their chronic nature. So yes, terrible distressing thoughts - but not in passing. Over and over and over again until you’re not sure what’s you any more.
Dragonfucker000@reddit
What you are looking for is IMPULSIVE thoughts, the urge to do something that you know is a bad idea but isn't causing you distress (cutting your hair yourself, pressing a fire alarm just because, etc.). What you describe are indeed intrusive thoughts, but the issue is that, as the name suggests it, people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder tend to get obsessed with said thoughts in ways that can create anxiety spirals, which is not a nice experience.
Disclaimer, I do not have OCD as far as I'm aware.
TsundereStrike@reddit
Honestly every day I see someone saying something about intrusive thoughts when they mean impulsive. If you correct them you get downvoted, it’s absurd.
Putrid-VII@reddit
We don't do "facts" and "logic" round here
TsundereStrike@reddit
you got me 💀
dananotdana@reddit
Yeah, this is called "having an idea"
suhhhrena@reddit
A pretty normal idea too lmao
NewsOdd3064@reddit
A pretty GOOD normal idea
f36263@reddit
The intrusive thoughts won, I just had a glass of water
Putrid-VII@reddit
Intrusive thoughts won, woke up this morning (because of the alarm)
Imahorrible_person@reddit
I'd grab a few
Yodzilla@reddit
I’d fuck up that whole tray
lxghtbringer@reddit
I’m coming over to eat all of these right now
sheik-@reddit
they are bleeding
El_Grande_El@reddit
I think you would like these: https://tasty.co/recipe/brown-butter-toffee-chocolate-chip-cookies
PoopTransplant@reddit
What exactly is shitty about these?
thelectricrain@reddit
They're weirdly flat, for starters.
xiipaoc@reddit
Yeah, I know, there isn't even a hot dog in the picture.
Candytails@reddit
I once made some and didn't use parchment paper and they stuck like gorilla glue to the pan and I learned a valuable lesson that day.
Efeyester@reddit (OP)
I guess the smell made it a bit more shitty tbh. Or I guess the picture makes it look less terrible. Looking at them they look soggy and pockmarked up close
PhonyPython@reddit
Why didn’t you just drizzle it on top afterwards 😭 butterscotch is basically caramel, which can in fact burn and taste awful
triple7freak1@reddit
This looks good to me maybe it‘s bc i‘m high af 😅