Page dear, we love you, you know that but sometimes you need to stop and think about what you say. Your question makes it seem as if you think there's something wrong with Marty's cookies. There isn't. That's how he bakes cookies and it sounds as if the person he baked them for will be very happy to have them.
My guess Page, would be that like most ovens Marty's heats unevenly. As long as I can remember when Mum bakes cookies at the halway point in baking she will rotate the tray 180° and move it from the lower rack to the upper rack so they will bake evenly. Her mother did the same. It's a matter of taste and how you were taught.
I have say. I cast my vote with Page on this one. Mum would make them occasionally in the fall. There's a local Amish/Mennonite bakery that makes apple cider doughnuts in the autumn.
Was okay. Got to the faire at 8am to prep the shop. At 9am the children arrived. A moderate crown of four thousand were expected. They were well behaved. Most are youngsters from summer day camps. At a bit before 2pm a rainstorm arrived and lasted about 20 minutes. At 3pm we closed the shop. We sold $19.50 worth of buttons.
There is shopping and there is buying. Shopping does not need to include the expenditure of funds. This is something we tell folk who wander into the shop at faire. Yes we would like if they buy things but we want them to enjoy there visit so we encourage them to touch and try things on, to frolic about. It is afterall a festival day.
I made mongolian beef with jasmine rice for dinner. I tweaked the recipe a bit and used tenderlioin tips instead of flank steak and added some radish and roasted broccoli. It was tasty.