Showing posts with label Cookie. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta!!!...continued

Since I wasn't allowed to bake before bed last night...I baked the Polvorones de Canele today...

Not sure what I did wrong...but the recipe said to "
stir [flour mixture] into the creamed mixture to form a stiff dough"...I didn't get any kind of stiff dough...it ended up looking like this...


It may be due to the "stirring" wasn't done by hand, but by a mixer...not sure though...

Because the dough wasn't "stiff," it was difficult to form dough into balls...so I just kinda mushed them together so they resemble some kind of 3D object...like this...



After baking them...they didn't look like the pictures from other people on the recipe. Other people's cookies were still in some kinda ball form (like tea cookies)...but mine flattened out...like this...




I tried one of the cookies and I'm not too sure if I like them. They were a bit too airy and buttery for me. Reviews on allrecipes says that it should be eaten when cooled, and since it was warm when I had one, I'll give it another try tomorrow.

Monday, May 04, 2009

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies

Stan & Philly came over to cook for us last Wednesday (Apr 29, 09). We got to eat Rib Eye Flambé...mmMMMMM. It was mesmerizing seeing the fire, although the smoke detector went crazy a bit. :P

After dinner, we (mainly Philly) decided to make Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies. We made the cookie part using this recipe (which is supposed to be for ice cream sandwiches), and the filling from this recipe.

We didn't have regular liquid food coloring, but only gel coloring. Because we don't know what the liquid to gel conversion was, we decided to add the coloring last. We combined everything except the coloring, and Philly thought the color wasn't right, and that it wasn't dark enough. So I went a little overboard and put (in addition to the 1.5 Tbsp in recipe) two big scoops (2 Tbsp-ish) of cocoa powder. So after that...it looked a lot more brown than red........

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