Wednesday, January 20

To the Family Bakers

I have a confession: I never baked any Christmas cookies. I will understand if I am disowned. At some point in the holiday madness I promised Tim his favorite holiday cookies: Rich Filled (page 85 in the family cookbook). As I attempted to make good on that promise tonight there was one error after another. I know my Mom wanted to know the outcome, but figured the rest of the cookie baking crew might be interested in the improvisation as well.

The problem started when I decide to halve the recipe. I of course didn't remember to halve all the ingredients as I added them so I scooped an arbitrary amount of baking powder and baking soda out after adding the full amount. Blasphemy! Then I immediately messed up again by adding the full amount of sour cream. Oops. So, I added a bit more flour to attempt balance it out. Who says baking is an exact science? The cookies were (predictably) too sticky to roll out as is tradition. Instead I made these (amazingly unattractive) lumps filled with jam, rather than two neat rolled out circles filled with jam. They were delicious!
Then I got tired of rolling sticky jam balls & decided to try the mini muffin tin, fashioning the dough as tart shells:Some jam filling, some chocolate chips, some nutella! They turned out a bit more cakey tasting but quite good as well. Looks like all those food science classes might have helped out! Although I suppose I should still owe Tim the cookies I promised since these weren't quite up to standard. Or maybe I will just make my person Christmas favorites instead, the chocolate pudding raspberry cookies!

5 comments:

Lori / Gordie said...

Who cares what they look like, as long as they taste good!

Mom said...

At least you didn't make camping cookies at Christmas, that is the ultimate family breach of contract!

Anonymous said...

Awesome story! Could have been me!!! Frusl

Anonymous said...

I massacred macaroons and am still in the family so I think your safe

Jess Butler said...

Rich filled are my favorite too! I think I ate about 300 of them at Grandma's house over the holidays. And sacher tortes are a close second Kris :-)