I am craving oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and I have everything in my recipe except for brown sugar. waaa!!! anyone know the importance of the brown sugar and what would happen if I *accidentally* left it out? Suggestions?

Brown sugar is white sugar with a bit of molasses....

Here's a handy common baking ingredients emergency substitutions chart:

http://www.joyofbaking.com/IngredientSubstitution.html

HTH

Your name thing is hilarious!

Hi, my name is Lisa... and I am a Cake Central addict.

I guess I can add to that as well. My name is Celeste, and I too, am a Cake Central addict.