I found out tonight that good Christmas Music does wonders to increase cookiebaking aptitude and morale. First, I mixed up a batch of snickerdoodles and popped them into the fridge to chill.
Remember the dough from last night? Hard. As. A. Rock. Luckily, with a lot of rough kneading it softened nicely. I decided to break in my new Wilton snowflake cookie cutters. The first batch went in the oven at 9:00, and although they were supposed to be in for 7-8 minutes, mine didn't look done yet, so I left them in for 12. I added an extra egg last night, so maybe that was a factor.
Both trays came out well, to my delight. Removing them from the cookie sheet posed a small challenge. Here's what I learned. If you try to slide your spatula underneath one skinny protrusion (could be an 'arm' of a snowflake, a point of a star, a leg on a gingerbread man) chances are it'll break off. If you slide the spatula underneath more than one 'point,' the pressure is displaced more evenly, and breakage probably won't occur.
Once they were done, I took the snickerdoodle dough out of the fridge. To finish them off, you roll them into small spheres, and roll the spheres into a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. But, to my horror, I had no cinnamon in the house!
So I popped them back into the fridge to bake tomorrow night. The snowflakes were still warm, so I didn't want to frost them yet. That'll wait for tomorrow night as well.
The 8:00 time worked well for me, because I didn't feel like I had to rush home and jump right into the kitchen. I'll probably stick with that time for the duration.
Tomorrow's shopping list: Cinnamon, molasses, butter
Tomorrow's start time: 8:00pm EST
1 Comments:
CookieCam seems to be a hit again. You look awesome in the Santa apron! I thought there was a snapshot of you singing while you were baking!
Tommy
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