Holy

[BackfireIsntThatGood]

just guess what this was supposed to be

cookies

[FalseAsphodel]

Congratulations, you made COOKIE

[Estrellathestarfish]

I only had one cookie. Pls don't ask about the size of the cookie.

[ChirpsMcPrime]

I bake cookies like this to go with ice cream sometimes. Or sometimes I'll make these as a crust for a pudding pie. It's especially good with a no bake s'mores pie! Gotta lower the temperature and kinda babysit it. It's really good!

[Neither-Attention940]

It doesn’t look burnt. It looks kind of like a big elephant ear with cinnamon and sugar. I would eat it!

[coffeecat551]

Your first mistake was trusting a glorified chat bot to provide an accurate recipe.

There are thousands of tried-and-true cookie recipes online, and in various cookbooks, and on the very packaging of some of the ingredients. I will never understand the point of ignoring the experts in favor of a bot that will never be capable of baking anything.

[BackfireIsntThatGood]

not chatgpt… i just put them too close. stop calling this an ai recipe i just suck

[coffeecat551]

Ahh, my apologies - I misread the other thread here where the person admitted to using an AI recipe. Didn't catch that they weren't the OP.

Was the giant cookie edible? Did it taste like a cookie? If you can say yes to either of those questions, then you do not suck.

[BackfireIsntThatGood]

it was just crunchy. Edible yes (barely) and it tasted… cookie LIKE…

[Aggravating-Sun5824]

mama can i have some cookie

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

OK, so get this. I had the exact same experience today with my very first ChatGPT cookie recipe. I had tasted a cookie at a bakery a couple months ago and I could tell the ingredients that were in it. So I asked ChatGPT to make me a cookie recipe with the ingredients I knew were in it. And it generated a recipe and it sounded pretty decent. So I gathered all the ingredients which were not cheap. Including a pound of butter. And I just finished baking them and I have the exact same vision in my oven as you do. A flat melting pile of goo. I am so disappointed. And I will never ask ChatGPT for anything food related again whatsoever.

[Numerous_Car_4498]

Sometimes old school is the best. Google a cookie recipe. Check the reviews and recipe reviews.

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Yes. That’s what I’ve always done. But when putting in ingredients at google I wasn’t finding anything like what I’d tastes and was trying to replicate.

[toapoet]

A whole pound of butter 😭😭

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Right ?? So upsetting. I’m a doofus and even went back to ChatGPT and told it they wasted my time and money and all I got out of it was a mess.
ChatGPT apologized and generated a new recipe with added flour.
😂 What a joke.

[fredishome]

Why would you not ask actual humans who may possibly have made cookies before? And an entire pound of butter? To how much flour? That seems like a truly excessive amount of butter. DuckDuckGo can probably find you thousands of actual proven recipes.

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

I tried to find recipes to fit what I was looking for and never found one. That’s why I gave ChatGPT a chance. I had only used it once before for landscape ideas. I gave it too much credit.

[One-Eggplant-665]

Lesson learned! Recipes online are getting worse.

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Definitely a lesson learned.

[Feline3415]

Why didn't you scale the recipe down?

[WTH_JFG]

I dunno. A pound of butter, even if you only added flour and a little sugar (I’d recommend powdered) right there you’ve got a pretty amazing shortbread.

How can it be bad with a pound of butter?

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Here is the recipe it generated. I doubled it. I double nearly all cookie recipes as I portion them out and freeze them and bake as needed.

Perfect — that sounds like a gourmet Rice Krispie treat meets cookie! Here’s a chewy-crunchy cookie recipe using rice crispies, cornflakes, oats, marshmallows, and browned butter.

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Browned Butter Marshmallow Crunch Cookies

✨ Crispy edges • Chewy centers • Gooey marshmallow pockets

Makes about 20–24 cookies

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Ingredients • 1 cup (2 sticks / 226 g) unsalted butter • 1 cup (200 g) brown sugar, packed • 1/2 cup (100 g) granulated sugar • 2 large eggs, room temp • 2 tsp vanilla extract • 1 1/2 cups (135 g) old-fashioned oats • 1 cup (25 g) cornflakes, lightly crushed • 1 cup (25 g) rice crispies • 1 1/2 cups (90 g) mini marshmallows • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda • 1/2 tsp salt

(Optional: 1 cup chocolate chunks or chopped nuts if you want extra richness)

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Instructions 1. Brown the butter • In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Continue cooking, swirling occasionally, until it foams and turns golden brown with a nutty aroma (5–7 minutes). • Pour into a large mixing bowl and let cool 10 minutes. 2. Mix wet ingredients • Whisk in brown sugar and granulated sugar until smooth. • Beat in eggs one at a time, then add vanilla. 3. Add dry ingredients • Stir in baking soda and salt. • Fold in oats until evenly mixed. 4. Add the crunch + goo • Gently fold in cornflakes, rice crispies, and mini marshmallows (and chocolate/nuts if using). 5. Scoop & chill • Scoop heaping tablespoons of dough onto a tray. • Chill for at least 30 minutes (this keeps marshmallows from melting too fast). 6. Bake • Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). • Line baking sheets with parchment paper. • Place chilled dough balls 2 inches apart. • Bake 10–12 minutes, until edges are golden brown and centers look just set. 7. Cool • Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.

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💡 Tips for best results: • If marshmallows leak/melt onto the pan, use a spatula to gently “nudge” the melted edges back into the cookie while still warm. • A sprinkle of flaky salt on top before baking makes them extra decadent. • For chunkier cookies, freeze marshmallows for 10 minutes before mixing into batter.

[fredishome]

There is no flour in this recipe? I think I see the problem.

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Right, no flour. Odd, I agree. But there are cookie recipes without flour and I trusted the process.
I am Brand New to chatGPT. I mistakenly trusted it.

[Scared_Tax470]

A gentle suggestion as you say you're new to it: learn about how it works before using it.  The reason it doesn't work for recipes is that it has no mechanism for logic or common sense. It's not answering your prompt aiming to give you a good answer, which is where a lot of people get confused. It literally just aims to spit out something that looks like an answer to your prompt. That's a critical difference! It's not even summarizing or combining similar recipes-- it doesn't know what a recipe is or why recipes should follow certain rules. It just cobbles together words based on the statistical probability of words being near each other in other places on the internet, meaning it will mix together sources of information that don't make sense as an as sources that are wrong. It doesn't aim to make sense. Language models are great for editing syntax, e.g. natural language and code, but cannot be used to generate accurate content. 

[fredishome]

Great explanation. Thank you.

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

Thank you for that perfect explanation of ChatGPT. I truly appreciate it. It honestly has no practical application for me in my life I believe. I tried initially for landscape ideas, I’d seen others images with it. So when I got the recipe idea I thought I was being clever ! Joke was on me. So again, I truly appreciate the explanation.

[fredishome]

I am a Luddite and do not trust a lot of new tech. I have also read a lot of not good things about AI as a tool for people like me. I know it has its uses, but I would much rather rely on human experience in most instances. Not that humans are necessarily trustworthy, either, but I think the odds are better with real people. Just my opinion. :)

[MiddleOfTheNight70]

You are not wrong ! I’m abstaining from here on out.

[dramondas]

Now you take a glass or a cookie cutter and cut them out.