Recipe pls!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 04:00 (eight months ago) link
worth experimenting with ratios but basically
1/2 cup room temp butter (~1 stick)1/2 cup condensed milk (~half adorable lil can of the stuff)~1 cup corn starch
350 for 10-15mins, 15-20 cookies
have been eyeballing the corn starch, erring on the conservative side yields a spread out/crispy caramelized edges thing while bumping it up makes a tighter dough, shortbread/Pfeffernusse territory
lately I split the dough in half, dash of lemon/almond extract/sliced almonds with a lemon juice/confectioners sugar icing on one pan and then vanilla extract/spoonful peanut butter/crushed peanut/chocolate on the other
― Florin Cuchares, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 04:52 (eight months ago) link
So I figured I haven't done anything weird in a while, and so I decided to try to make chocolate chip cookies with prunes.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:00 (three months ago) link
i would eat those! (i love prunes) how did they turn out?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:10 (three months ago) link
Texture was off and they weren't quite sweet enough, but not bad considering it's a first attempt! They weren't very airy so I'll probably reduce the number of prunes or bump up the baking soda. I was inspired by a base/crust I made once with prunes and walnuts, which I remember being pretty chewy.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2024 05:58 (three months ago) link
Did you purée the prunes or just dump them in whole/chopped?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:41 (three months ago) link
Pureed. Chopped would've been like big raisin chunks.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:01 (three months ago) link
Which I think I would like actually!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:38 (three months ago) link
prunes cut into small oieces would help the cookies to rise more, puree would make them too moist imo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
Moisture of chopped pieces giving off steam and creating air pockets?
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
roll em in flour
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
I tried making these at my wife's request (she saw the recipe online): https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018450-pistachio-rose-and-strawberry-buns
Did not get the dough to come out right, it didn't rise as much as it should. Still tasted OK, and the filling is very good. Two things, though — to some degree it just tastes like a fancy peanut-butter-jelly sandwich; and there is evidently no way to puree pistachios for "pistachio cream" and not have the resulting mix look kinda like poop lol.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
One question, one observation.
I've seen various blogs say that tahini is an acceptable substitute for yogurt, but after a bunch of attempts, I've grown quite skeptical, because the final product (muffins, or snickerdoodles) often end up brittle and crumbly. At the very least, a simple 1-1 substitution doesn't work.
The question: I've been having trouble getting bakes that have recipes with high moisture content to cook fully through -- IIRC attempts at a carrot cake, a blueberry cake, and a hot milk cake all were underbaked in the middle, and all used (metal) 9x9 pans. Strangely enough, though, banana breads and stuff in my glass 9x5 loaf pans have come out more fully baked. I've used a toaster oven for all of these, so temperatures shouldn't be the problem (right?). Any ideas?
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:36 (two weeks ago) link
Leee why are you trying to susbtitute tahini for yogurt? They seem like very different substances to me.. If you need to be dairy free you could try soy or coconut or cashew yogurt?
If your bakes are underdone I'd suggest a higher temp. And a real oven (any reason you're not using a real oven?)
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:55 (two weeks ago) link
for baking, you’d have better luck substituting yogurt with silken tofu or applesauce. tahini won’t really behave in the right way at all
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2024 23:25 (two weeks ago) link
Leee why are you trying to susbtitute tahini for yogurt?
Probably some leftover attempts at veganism, even though nowadays I end up using dairy (albeit sparingly). Yeah, I think I'll try using tofu or mashed bananas (the wonder ingredient!) instead.
I left out that my underbaked cakes are underbaked in the middle -- they're definitely cooked (sometimes overcooked) on the surface. I'm not using a gas oven because I don't feel like using it (preheating), but also now we're getting into summer.
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Friday, 31 May 2024 00:42 (two weeks ago) link
you may have to adjust (lower) baking temp by 25 degrees … if its cooking on top but underdone in the middle it’s cooking too fasttoaster oven much smaller & tend to cook hotter than standard oven or just, yknow, use the actual gas oven & get a better result tbh imo i think you are making yr baking life difficult unecessarily but that is just my humble opinion <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 May 2024 00:52 (two weeks ago) link
good advice from VG!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2024 08:33 (two weeks ago) link
i just made Devil's Food Cake for the first time today, having not really known what it was before. it was like my favourite chocolate Guinness cake except fluffier and not sour. good, but think I prefer the Guinness cake maybe?
― kinder, Friday, 31 May 2024 18:51 (two weeks ago) link
Low and slow seems to have worked better: 1:40(!) at 325, though I cranked the toaster oven back up to 350 for the last 10 minutes because I was getting impatient.
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2024 03:02 (two weeks ago) link