The Great American Cookie Cookbook is one of my favorite cookbooks. If you’ll look closely, you can see in the pictures where it is held together with packing tape! My favorite cookbooks tend to look like this one. It comes from heavy use.
The Great American Cookie Cookbook
Today I have decided to try a new recipe. On page 44, you’ll find the recipe for Malted Dream Drops. This is the one I’ve decided to try. All the needed ingredients are in my cabinet so I’m good to go. The dough is easy to mix & not at all time consuming. It needs to sit in the refrigerator for an hour so I work on other things.
As you can see, this cookbook is held together by tape.
It’s 2 hours before I get back to working on the cookies. I notice that dough is still a very soft dough in spite of being chilled. Fill the first cookie sheet & set it in the oven to bake. As I pull the baked cookies out of the oven, I see a potential problem. The cookies have spread out a great deal instead of being a nice puffy cookie as the photo in the book shows. The first thing I do is check the recipe to see if I made any mistakes. This could be quite a problem as the difference in spread will not only affect the appearance of the cookie but also the taste. The cookie dough goes back into the refrigerator for another hour.
Malted Dream Drops are flat & spread out instead of puffy like they should be.
When the first batch of cookies cool off, Sarah & I taste them. This is our sworn duty & we take it seriously. The Malted Dream Drops are ok but nothing spectular. They have a nice malt taste but just don’t impress. We decide to reserve judgment until tasting the next batch. After an hour is up, I throw another batch of the cookies in the oven. The dough is a bit stiffer but still pretty soft. Again, no surprise here, they spread out on the cooky sheet. Again the taste test shows them to be an alright cookie. Our definition of an alright cookie is one that tastes as good as you get out of the box or bag off the grocery shelf in the store. If we’re taking the time to bake them, we expect more!
They didnt come out quite like they should have & still were decent, so eventually Ill come back to them & try again. If I can figure out why they were spreading too much, I know it would make a lot of difference in the taste. Perhaps then, Sarah & I would have a different opinion of them.
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