The cookies don't taste like my mom used to make...

Hey reiny! It probably is just your imaginiation! I'll bet they do taste like your Mom's and you just don't think so because you made them. Try hers and see if you think there is a difference. I know when I cook stuff that my Mom made it does taste like my Mom's stuff. It reminds me of hers as soon as I taste it. But, sometimes when you spend so much time cooking or baking something you kind of get full and lose your taste for a minute. You know what I mean? That's kind of like when I cook a big meal like on Thanksgiving. I can barely stand to look at the turkey, nevermind eat any of it after spending all day cooking it. I bet when you compare it to your Mom's it does taste the same.

I know what you mean! My mom made some of the most awesome cookies ever! She'd cater my dad's office party and boy was that amazing! She was a professional (although never did anything with it) cake decorator - back when they decorated cakes the hard way with frosting and not easy fondant like they do today. But she had the talent! And her cookies at christmas time - I think Martha Stewart learned from her! But as she hands her recipes down to me and I make them, they just dont taste as I remember them. Now granted, those tastes go back 25 years or so, so I might just have that conotation in my memory banks, but still - just isn't the same. Maybe because I made them and not her - maybe it is just something where the two things go together. Mine are good and I have lots of compliments on them, but to me... Mom's will always hold the title!

I have come to the conclusion that it is not the recipe it is the love that is put in to the recipe. I make macaroni and cheese and when my sister makes it just like I do it does not taste as good to her son. I think it is because it has Auntie's love in it. He also loves my meat loaf better than hers even if she uses my recipe. I know that is is the love there. I think the cookies have your mom's love and yours do not.

Is that a actual picture of the cookies you made? If they are they look awesome! Yeah sometimes we can be our own worst critic,maybe your cookies are as good as moms. Years ago I made a recipe for no-bake cookies because I missed the no-bake cookies my mom use to make, but the recipe I had was different then the one my mom used when she was alive. Well needless to say after slaving over those cookies for awhile they came out pretty crappy. They wouldn't even hold a shape and were gooey and falling apart and they didn't get hard after they cooled,nothing like moms. But luckily 3 years ago My sister gave me mom's original no-bake cookie recipe and when I made them they came out perfect, just like moms

I never can make anything that tastes as good as how my mom makes it. I don't know if it's mental or not. We just grow up on good cooking and find mom's shoes hard to fill, I guess. The cookies do look delicious though!

lol!!! I have that some problem! My mom has always been a great cook so I measure everything by her cooking/ baking. The cookies look delicious!!! :)

Mom's cooking is ALWAYS better no matter how hard we try. My mom showed me how to make various things. I do exactly as she did and they still don't compare to hers. It's all part of lifes mysteries is all. No one tops moms cooking ever. EVER! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Well they say 1/2 the taste is the looks and if that's so they should taste great! I think it is a mental thing but never the less nothing tastes like mom made it!