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So.
... My Ghost is terrorizing the parrot. This is not actually all that unusual.
Moving right along.
Today I experimented with cookies. Specifically, I made (as in "baking as we speak") a batch of thumb-print butter cookies with cranberry curd
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Cranberry Sunbursts (version 1.0)
2C whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 C potato flour
1/2 C icing sugar
1C butter
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Mix the above into a dough that sticks together easily but doesn't automatically coat your hands with gunk.
Roll the dough into balls.
Put them on an un-greased cookie sheet (should hold about twelve) and flatten them out (to about 1cm thick). Put a thumb-print depression in the middle of each cookie (they should now look a bit like nests).
Into each depression add:
1/2 tsp cranberry curd (or the jam of your choice -- sour cherry is a good one, but peach/apricot or raspberry or strawberry or red currant (we're aiming for sunny/warm colours here) will work nicely as well).
Bake in a 350F oven for 10-15 minutes (or 20 minutes if, like me, your oven only has a "broil" setting due to the bottom element never having worked).
Allow to cool (yes, really, the cranberry curd will be hot and kind of spurty, or so I'm guessing), and then serve with hot apple cider or similar. YAY! :-D
Makes... probably about 18 big (but not enormous) cookies.
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Here's hoping they taste good and don't fall apart. (Note: The tasting good is not really a worry in this instance. It's hard to screw up shortbread. If they fall apart, though, I'll be adding 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla, and maybe a quarter cup more flour of one sort or another).
... My Ghost is terrorizing the parrot. This is not actually all that unusual.
Moving right along.
Today I experimented with cookies. Specifically, I made (as in "baking as we speak") a batch of thumb-print butter cookies with cranberry curd
*~*~*~*~*
Cranberry Sunbursts (version 1.0)
2C whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 C potato flour
1/2 C icing sugar
1C butter
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Mix the above into a dough that sticks together easily but doesn't automatically coat your hands with gunk.
Roll the dough into balls.
Put them on an un-greased cookie sheet (should hold about twelve) and flatten them out (to about 1cm thick). Put a thumb-print depression in the middle of each cookie (they should now look a bit like nests).
Into each depression add:
1/2 tsp cranberry curd (or the jam of your choice -- sour cherry is a good one, but peach/apricot or raspberry or strawberry or red currant (we're aiming for sunny/warm colours here) will work nicely as well).
Bake in a 350F oven for 10-15 minutes (or 20 minutes if, like me, your oven only has a "broil" setting due to the bottom element never having worked).
Allow to cool (yes, really, the cranberry curd will be hot and kind of spurty, or so I'm guessing), and then serve with hot apple cider or similar. YAY! :-D
Makes... probably about 18 big (but not enormous) cookies.
*~*~*~*~*
Here's hoping they taste good and don't fall apart. (Note: The tasting good is not really a worry in this instance. It's hard to screw up shortbread. If they fall apart, though, I'll be adding 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla, and maybe a quarter cup more flour of one sort or another).
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