{"id":624,"date":"2021-02-12T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2021-02-12T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T03:51:47","slug":"chaotic-cooky-kitchen-6-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/chaotic-cooky-kitchen-6-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic Cooky Kitchen #6 – Back on track"},"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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Slightly underwhelming-looking? We’ll see.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our ingredients look fairly familiar, although adding a couple of eggs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two, two different sugars!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Side note<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Last week<\/a> I mentioned that I’d been doing these recipes with hand-mixing only because of the time at which the cookbook was released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the not-even fine print!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A reader (hi Mom!) mentioned quite correctly that there were plenty of electric mixers out there (certainly even in the 50s, let alone the 60s). I didn’t know how prevalent they were, and in my defense, here’s the “what you need” picture from earlier in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my non-defense… yeah, the text next to it says “or an electric mixer” or something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’m basically just punishing myself by not using one. But at least I’m making fewer dishes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Onward<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mix the sugars and fats! No need to cream them, so naturally I wasted the above space on something that doesn’t apply this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Add your eggs and, you know… mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe the blog should be called “Mixing.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And yeah, this’d be your usual wet\/dry recipe. Given last week’s semi-disaster in Refrigerator Cookie Land, I decided that the flour for this recipe would be weighed. 5oz per cup is the general rule, and it usually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only one spice this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And, well, you guessed it: mix them, too. It tells you to do it by hand, but I can attest that this results in hard-to-resolve “club fingers.” Works quickly, though, and probably doesn’t develop too much gluten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lump o’ dough!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As you can see, this time the dough actually came together like, well, a dough, so it was easy to work with. Time to roll it for refigeration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tube o’ dough!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then in the fridge overnight. When that’s done, cut them up into 6 dozen cookies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easy-peasy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, these are a ton easier to cut, so I could actually make them into the number of cookies prescribed in the recipe. I was expecting them to bake up D-shaped, because even after re-rolling them into cylinders, cutting them compressed one side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I had a brain wave (or something else): why not try an egg slicer? It would make them even, thin, do it quickly, and…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… a big mess<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So I wouldn’t do that if I were you. Back to the knife I went, and baking for less than 10 minutes gave me fairly well-rounded cookies that expanded more than you might (well, more than I might) think. And so, you get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of tasty twins.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\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

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