Epic baking fail

So when I posted my BEAUTIFUL (if I do say so myself) Caprese salad of the other night, I did NOT post the other item created that evening.  Mainly because it was burnt to a crisp - some of it was totally inedible.  Did I mention that this item was supposed to be for the neighborhood party?  It's why we ended up bringing a gorgeous yet slightly rushed Caprese salad instead.

I tried to make peanut butter cookies with our glorious new Kitchen Aid mixer.  Here are some shots of the cookies-in-progress:

The real problem here was neither the recipe nor the Kitchen Aid (which, by the way, is AWESOME), but the fact that I am so inexperienced in the baking department that I kept burning them.  I need to stop worrying about them being undercooked; I'm obviously leaving them in there more than long enough.  I'm going to keep at it, of course; though I think my next Kitchen Aid project will be cake (or cupcakes!!) and frosting from scratch.  Stay tuned!