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A holiday miracle
Dec. 24th, 2021 06:13 pmI got around to making some of the aforementioned cookies (just) before Christmas, quite a success. It feels as if it takes much of the afternoon though, ranging from the initial thinking to the final washing up, also vacuuming because flour gets everywhere.
It's years since I made cookies, so I took my usual approach of starting with a simple recipe that I can use as a baseline. In this case, I went for 160g butter and sugar, 240g flour, half a teaspoon of baking soda, an egg, and 100g-ish of finely chopped chocolate. To the dark chocolate mix I added a couple of peppermint tisane teabag contents, to the white chocolate mix I added chopped macadamia nuts.
The dark chocolate cookies turned out well, the white chocolate were a bit too thin, and fell apart easily until they had cooled. Perhaps I needed less butter in those, given the oiliness of the nuts and the white chocolate. Overall, quite a success. Experiment suggests that baking at 325°F for around twenty minutes might work well. Oddly, my nice oven is conventional, not a convection oven. Coming from Britain, I didn't know that it was even still easy to buy the older kind here.
It's years since I made cookies, so I took my usual approach of starting with a simple recipe that I can use as a baseline. In this case, I went for 160g butter and sugar, 240g flour, half a teaspoon of baking soda, an egg, and 100g-ish of finely chopped chocolate. To the dark chocolate mix I added a couple of peppermint tisane teabag contents, to the white chocolate mix I added chopped macadamia nuts.
The dark chocolate cookies turned out well, the white chocolate were a bit too thin, and fell apart easily until they had cooled. Perhaps I needed less butter in those, given the oiliness of the nuts and the white chocolate. Overall, quite a success. Experiment suggests that baking at 325°F for around twenty minutes might work well. Oddly, my nice oven is conventional, not a convection oven. Coming from Britain, I didn't know that it was even still easy to buy the older kind here.
