September 2010 Archives
This recipe came from Martha Stewart's Cookies cookbook, and it's
great. The black pepper might sound scary, but it adds a nice bight
with a little hint of berries or fruit. The pepper flavor is not overly
noticeable, many people could not identify the flavor, but liked the
richness of the chocolate in the cookie.
The Little Chef helped
me make these cookies, first he wanted to roll them in some smoked
paprika, but I managed to steer him to the colored sanding sugar. After
a little discussion about how much of the confetti sugar he could eat,
we got to business rolling the logs in the sugar.
After a stint in the freezer, we cut the cookies and baked them up. He was 'taking a nap' when these baked, and devoured a few warm ones when he woke up. When we were playing at the neighbors house, every time he went inside the house, there were more cookie crumbs on his mouth. I think he ate 4 or 5 cookies that afternoon. He also loves the sugar sprinkles, I think I could put them on anything and he would eat them :D Anyways, if a four year old likes these cookies, anyone will. At work, they were a big hint. Many people asked what the flavor was because it is a little hard to place.
The Little Chef helped
me make these cookies, first he wanted to roll them in some smoked
paprika, but I managed to steer him to the colored sanding sugar. After
a little discussion about how much of the confetti sugar he could eat,
we got to business rolling the logs in the sugar.After a stint in the freezer, we cut the cookies and baked them up. He was 'taking a nap' when these baked, and devoured a few warm ones when he woke up. When we were playing at the neighbors house, every time he went inside the house, there were more cookie crumbs on his mouth. I think he ate 4 or 5 cookies that afternoon. He also loves the sugar sprinkles, I think I could put them on anything and he would eat them :D Anyways, if a four year old likes these cookies, anyone will. At work, they were a big hint. Many people asked what the flavor was because it is a little hard to place.
Continue reading Chocolate Black Pepper Cookies.
Today we have a light,
fluffy, and child fearing peppermint cookie. I
loved the cookies, all the parents liked the cookies, the kids, they all
hated them. No rhyme or reason, they just took
one little bight and then put them back. they taste like peppermint candy canes - all the kids eat them, but apparently not in cookie form... As for
the cookies, some were sandwiched in chocolate, and others were plain.
The plain ones were bight size and best taken in one bight. They disintegrated when you bit them, an explosion of
sweet and peppermint on the tongue, and not much else was left in the
mouth. The chocolate ones were even better. The ganache was a rich dark chocolate and complimented
the peppermint very well. IT added a depth of
flavor that was completely missing from the ones without the chocolate. A hint of bitterness and saltiness toned down the
peppermint and created a wonderful morsel of goodness.
I got the color in the
cookies by painting a few streaks down the side of the piping bag. The
only issue I had was getting the chocolate ganache to cooperate with me. I was a little impatient with the cooling process,
then forgot about it. So it took some massaging
to get it to leave the piping bag without taking the tip with it.
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