Ugh......
For the first time in at least 6 years, I've had a batch of cookies come out wrong. Badly wrong.
Last night I whipped up a batch of snickerdoodle dough (which has to chill before you can cook it). This is the first time I'm making snickerdoodles for the holidays, but not the first time I've made them.
For those of you who don't know, snickerdoodles need to be rolled in a cinnamon/sugar mixture prior to baking. And I thought it'd be a wonderfully festive idea to use dyed sugar so I could have red snickerdoodles and green snickerdoodles. So picked up some red and green sugar, mixed up two bowls of the mixture (using some regular sugar and some of the colored sugar) and started making cookies.
What I SHOULD have done was make a test cookie to see if the colored sugar idea would work, but I didn't think it'd be a problem, so I went ahead and coated all 3 dozen cookies before putting any of them in the oven.
So imagine my surprise when the colored sugar mostly melted off the cookies and started sticking to the pans. Making matters worse, the sugar on the bottoms also stuck to the pan, which pretty much meant that every single cookie was damaged as it came off the pan. Lots of them broke. Of 40 cookies, only ONE came out properly.
While they still taste great, they are falling apart, misshapen, damaged, and just look weird.
Obviously, dyed decorating sugar isn't intended to be baked in an oven.....
I think next time (I still have batches to make for work and for my mother's side of the family) I'll try putting a small pinch of colored sugar on the top of each cookie, and if that doesn't work, just make standard, non-colored snickerdoodles.
I suppose I could put some food coloring in the dough if I really want colored cookies, but I don't have any, and I don't really feel like dicking around with that.
Oh well. At least the oatmeal-raisin-craisin cookies came out perfect.
So, if anyone else has a cooking disaster, post it here!
For the first time in at least 6 years, I've had a batch of cookies come out wrong. Badly wrong.
Last night I whipped up a batch of snickerdoodle dough (which has to chill before you can cook it). This is the first time I'm making snickerdoodles for the holidays, but not the first time I've made them.
For those of you who don't know, snickerdoodles need to be rolled in a cinnamon/sugar mixture prior to baking. And I thought it'd be a wonderfully festive idea to use dyed sugar so I could have red snickerdoodles and green snickerdoodles. So picked up some red and green sugar, mixed up two bowls of the mixture (using some regular sugar and some of the colored sugar) and started making cookies.
What I SHOULD have done was make a test cookie to see if the colored sugar idea would work, but I didn't think it'd be a problem, so I went ahead and coated all 3 dozen cookies before putting any of them in the oven.
So imagine my surprise when the colored sugar mostly melted off the cookies and started sticking to the pans. Making matters worse, the sugar on the bottoms also stuck to the pan, which pretty much meant that every single cookie was damaged as it came off the pan. Lots of them broke. Of 40 cookies, only ONE came out properly.
While they still taste great, they are falling apart, misshapen, damaged, and just look weird.
Obviously, dyed decorating sugar isn't intended to be baked in an oven.....
I think next time (I still have batches to make for work and for my mother's side of the family) I'll try putting a small pinch of colored sugar on the top of each cookie, and if that doesn't work, just make standard, non-colored snickerdoodles.
I suppose I could put some food coloring in the dough if I really want colored cookies, but I don't have any, and I don't really feel like dicking around with that.
Oh well. At least the oatmeal-raisin-craisin cookies came out perfect.
So, if anyone else has a cooking disaster, post it here!
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