Step 1: Follow Instructions
Posted in Life on 04/08/2006 01:25 am by enjanerdHow is it that I’ve been baking, like really baking, for over 4 years and I still remain clueless as to the unit of measure one stick of butter is?
This is the fourth time I’ve made peanut chewies and I screwed them up *again* by adding the wrong amount of butter. Fortunately, I realized it before I put them in the oven. Unfortunately, I realized it after I started mixing. The consistency was all wrong, so I looked at my pile of discarded ingredient wrappers and lo and behold… too much butter. The worst part was that I had already doubled the recipe, so if I were to compensate at that point, I would have 4 batches of these things. And, while I do enjoy desserts, that is just too much.
On the bright side, I was planning to make chocolate chip cookies after I finished with the peanut chewies, so I was able to salvage this fiasco. Split the dough in half, re-doubled the peanut chewies recipe in one half, and turned the other half into chocolate chip cookie dough. Weird, I know. But it actually worked out alright. It also worked out that I needed to add more egg yolks to the peanut chewies, so with the leftover whites, I was able to create “whole” eggs in the chocolate chip cookie dough. Granted, they were half free-range and half regular Giant brand. But I don’t think the cookies knew the difference.
Another day that I’m glad math is on my side. Yay cookies! :) -j.
Edit: Ok, so the doughy part of the peanut chewies came out weird. I just tried a piece. The topping is still good though. Maybe I’ll just pass them off as peanut-y rice krispy goo. Mm… goo…