Cookies of the Devil!
Posted by Elizabeth on 02-17-2010 at 12:25 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on an assignment from How Baking Works that involved making sugar cookies with different kinds of flour. I won't go into the details on why that makes a difference, but I thought it was interesting.
Unfortunately, all of the recipes in the exercises in the book are given in weight, not volume. This is really a good thing, I suppose, since weight is a more accurate measurement of flour, among other things, than volume, but I do not have a kitchen scale, and converting from volume to weight (or number) leads to problems with things like eggs. In other words, I needed a regular sugar cookie recipe.
None of the ones I had made me particularly happy, so I went cruising for recipes on the internet.
Food Network was one of the first stops, and they let their viewers review the recipes that they have tried.
The Classic Sugar Cookies Recipe came fairly highly-rated at 4 stars, but I wanted to read the reviews anyway.
Imagine my surprise upon learning that they are in fact the Cookies of the Devil. I can't link to the review directly, so let me re-post it for you here:
WORST COOKIE DOUGHHH I HAVE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF EXPERIENCING
If you wanted a cookie made by the devil this would be it. This dough was terrible and dry and gross. I have made 10000s of cookies. I lvoe making them for my neighbors during the holidays. I tried to use fancy william sonoma cookie cutters on this dough. IT SUCKED. It was bad dough and it tasted like what a cookie santa pooped out would taste like. I tell you this was the nastiest thing i have ever tasted. Don't let the title classice sugar coookied decieve you; these are satan cookies. Satan himself would not eat them. If you have the misfortune of making these cookies add some chocolate, coconut, and walnuts, and butter and then more chocolate to them and eat them at 2:30 am. OKay they are bad dont make
I am too lazy to put a (sic) after all those spelling mistakes, and I am not sure if they are supposed to be Santa-poop cookies or Satan-poop cookies. I doubt it matters much.
At this point, I felt morally obligated to make this recipe in particular.
They look fine to me. I even made some butter-cream frosting!
Most of them went to the D&D game I was playing that day, which is just as well. I certainly do not need to eat that many frosted cookies by myself.
In the course of all of this, I also discovered that plain butter-cream frosting is what my Grandma used to put on angle-food cakes for picnics when I was little. I didn't know I could remember tastes that clearly.
Anyway, I suspect the issue that the above reviewer had was that s/he used salted butter. That might explain some of it. Also, I doubt that using fancy cookie-cutters by default makes the dough any better, but what do I know?
Unfortunately, all of the recipes in the exercises in the book are given in weight, not volume. This is really a good thing, I suppose, since weight is a more accurate measurement of flour, among other things, than volume, but I do not have a kitchen scale, and converting from volume to weight (or number) leads to problems with things like eggs. In other words, I needed a regular sugar cookie recipe.
None of the ones I had made me particularly happy, so I went cruising for recipes on the internet.
Food Network was one of the first stops, and they let their viewers review the recipes that they have tried.
The Classic Sugar Cookies Recipe came fairly highly-rated at 4 stars, but I wanted to read the reviews anyway.
Imagine my surprise upon learning that they are in fact the Cookies of the Devil. I can't link to the review directly, so let me re-post it for you here:
WORST COOKIE DOUGHHH I HAVE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF EXPERIENCING
If you wanted a cookie made by the devil this would be it. This dough was terrible and dry and gross. I have made 10000s of cookies. I lvoe making them for my neighbors during the holidays. I tried to use fancy william sonoma cookie cutters on this dough. IT SUCKED. It was bad dough and it tasted like what a cookie santa pooped out would taste like. I tell you this was the nastiest thing i have ever tasted. Don't let the title classice sugar coookied decieve you; these are satan cookies. Satan himself would not eat them. If you have the misfortune of making these cookies add some chocolate, coconut, and walnuts, and butter and then more chocolate to them and eat them at 2:30 am. OKay they are bad dont make
I am too lazy to put a (sic) after all those spelling mistakes, and I am not sure if they are supposed to be Santa-poop cookies or Satan-poop cookies. I doubt it matters much.
At this point, I felt morally obligated to make this recipe in particular.
They look fine to me. I even made some butter-cream frosting!
Most of them went to the D&D game I was playing that day, which is just as well. I certainly do not need to eat that many frosted cookies by myself.
In the course of all of this, I also discovered that plain butter-cream frosting is what my Grandma used to put on angle-food cakes for picnics when I was little. I didn't know I could remember tastes that clearly.
Anyway, I suspect the issue that the above reviewer had was that s/he used salted butter. That might explain some of it. Also, I doubt that using fancy cookie-cutters by default makes the dough any better, but what do I know?
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