{"id":598,"date":"2021-02-06T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2021-02-06T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T21:07:33","slug":"chaotic-cooky-kitchen-5-in-which-the-wheels-start-to-come-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/chaotic-cooky-kitchen-5-in-which-the-wheels-start-to-come-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic Cooky Kitchen #5 – In which the wheels start to come off…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome back to the Chaotic Cooky Kitchen, where I’m still trying to get back on track here. But this time, I brought in a ringer recipe, because I can’t pass these up when I have the opportunity to make them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t have to do anything crazy like jump ahead at all, just move on a couple of pages to:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Molded Cookies<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

OK, this is a recipe in the\u00a0Cooky Book<\/a>*<\/sup> that I know and love via my mom. It’s not something that she makes constantly, but they are always good:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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They seem harmless, right?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As usual, the roundup: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really glad we got the larger-sized spice containers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You start off creaming the fat and sugar together with the molasses. I probably skimped on this a bit because I’m trying to keep the tools closer to what they likely would have been in most houses the early 60s, so I didn’t use a stand mixer. (And I’m massively out of shape….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yin, yang, and… hydrogenated fat.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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You’re supposed to beat the wet ingredients until, er…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I kept going a bit after taking the picture below, but I can’t claim it was super-fluffy at that point. I’m not certain that this is where it started going sideways, but there’s a chance you’d be better off getting it really <\/strong>light and fluffy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you fluffy enough?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, time for the dry ingredients. I didn’t sift this time, which probably didn’t make a difference, but if I were you I’d do the exact opposite of what I did from here on out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, maybe sift it all together. And probably go with maybe 90% of the suggested amount of flour to start with? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And yeah, it really is a fantastic amount of the spices.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then everybody goes in the pool, at which point I realized something I’d missed from before: this is intended to make 7-1\/2 dozen cookies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’re going to need a bigger bowl. Or two.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Looks a bit crumbly up there, doesn’t it? Yeah, it did to me too. I went ahead and chopped and added the almonds and made an attempt at forming the required refrigerator-cookie logs, but, well…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slightly disappointing.1<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It really didn’t want to mesh into a dough, and at that point I realized that either I should have done a better job creaming the sugar and fats, or kept a bit of the flour back. (More likely the latter, I’d think, because adding air doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to hydrate more flour…?) Possibly both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I wasn’t about to give up on that amount of ingredients, so into the refrigerator it went. The next day, magic had utterly failed to happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yup, still crumbly.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You’re supposed to slice them into 1\/4-inch rounds, but that wasn’t going to happen. I could slice a few into something closer to 1\/2-inch cookies, but most of the dough I had to press together into vaguely disk-shaped lumps with my hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Into the oven, saying a few prayers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And out they came, looking… well, not that great, but at least edible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And tasting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Verdict: A+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Oof. These are kryptonite for someone trying to do a low-carb diet.2<\/sup> They’re always excellent, but if you have a chance to buy high-quality unsweetened chocolate3<\/sup>, do it, and absolutely use it in this recipe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Links to the Cooky book are Amazon affiliate links that theoretically could earn a teensy amount of money for the site.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>Thank goodness for the almonds, or else it could be mistaken for something else.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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