Cookie-rock

My second time ever attempting making chocolate cookies - and probably the last. The first time I tried making them was 3-4 years back - why do they make the recipes look so enticing ? I measured, and poured, and mixed and finally dropped spoonfuls on the cookie sheet. Go to see 10 minutes later and instead of beautifully formed cookies - I had ONE big giant cookie blob where all the cookies had joined up. The edges of that gi-normous cookie got hard while the middle was undercooked.

This recent attempt was better - the cookies remained separate (yes I try to learn from my mistakes.....), but took longer than the recipe stated to cook. They look horrible, but the taste straight out of the oven was yum. But now 24 hours later they are as stiff as rocks :-(.

And of course C2 who wanted chocolate cookies, which inspired me to make them, will take 2 bites of a cookie per day. Which means these will end up either as trash or as cellulite on you-know-whose-you-know-where........