The Fool This April Is Me (Trying to Make Vegan Sugar Cookies)
The following text is the initial draft of my “script.”
Welcome to this week's Mixed Media with Mikkel. Today we are making vegan brown sugar cookies.
Why are we making vegan brown sugar cookies?
Because much everything in my life, a series of unrelated circumstances have been inexplicably linked in my head and have formed into a cohesive narrative and now we doing things to record such an incident.
So, perhaps more pressingly? Why video? Well, back in 2020 my dear friend Adam Segal and I reconnected during the pandemic and restarted our collegiate writing group in the form of a Zoom meeting at first and then a discord shortly after that, and then the writing group became more of a general hang out where we'd discuss things, like... SMART goals. And while looking up smart goals, I made the mistake of finding a version of the acronym where the A stood for assignable and was assigned the resolution of taking a shower with my clothes on.
And for whatever reason, I take these things super seriously and proceeded to take a shower with my clothes on first thing of 2021. We made a calendar out of it. No, I'm not kidding.
In any case, in 2024, we started doing resolutions and I personally don't believe in resolutions for myself, but when given one I apparently take it super seriously and I was instructed to make a YouTube.
Incidentally, as we celebrate the five year anniversary of e-nklings, Adam slips in another resolution that I need to make cookies, so here we are. Making cookies.
Now, why vegan and why sugar cookies?
Well, it's vegan because a nontrivial amount of my friends are Vegan (hey Em) and they're sugar cookies because my friend Steenz is allergic to chocolate.
So I found the simplest recipe that I could find and that's
2 sticks of unsalted butter
2/3 of sugar
2 cups of flour
This has been a year where I have been trying things whether it's clay working at Laumeier Sculpture park, drawing fan art of one of my tabletop campaigns at the encouragement of my friend Kat, water coloring at Betty's books, helping out with SLICE (the St. Louis comics expo). Not with the intent of become a master, but just... trying things.
There is a certain degree of arrogance required when you're a creative. And when the arrogance is earned we call it confidence. And when that arrogance is unearned, well, we still call it arrogance, but there is also the tacit acknoweldgemet of this may not work out exactly like you hope, but you still got try.
So, on March 30, I am making brown sugar cookies to make content for my newsletter that comes out on Tuesday, and the first tuesday in April just happens to be April's Fools, so why not embrace the major Arcana and try something. Like... a semi scripted video while making cookies. The picture will be with the newsletter.
