Smoke alarms & edible cookies

Every time I bake the smoke detector goes off. Honestly. EVERY time... maybe I'm not used to it because in my old house we neither had a fan or a smoke detector, so the idea that the house may burn down because of my attempts to make gluten-free chocolate chip cookies didn't even cross my mind. Nevertheless, the trusty smoke alarm was there to remind me my cookies were burning - which they weren't by the way. They taste alright. Not spectacular.
I was lazy though, I only used ingredients I had because it's raining and cold and I'm in jogging pants and don't particularily want to go back outside. So I substituted baking soda for baking powder (mistake #1) and didn't put in any vanilla (mistake #2). So now I have puffy, tasteless cookies that cook faster on the bottom than anywhere else. BUT lets not forget the silver lining in all of this: I have cookies!!!