{"id":91,"date":"2008-12-18T21:34:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/when-a-good-cookie-goes-bad\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T21:34:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T02:34:56","slug":"when-a-good-cookie-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/when-a-good-cookie-goes-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Good Cookie Goes Bad…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I did my Christmas (cookie) marathon, constructing and
\nbaking 4 different batches of cookies through the week, and another 4
\non Saturday.  It’s not like there’s  a lack of other things
\ngoing on this month — I just broke them up into stages and wove the
\ndifferent stages (dough, shaping, resting, baking, decorating) in and
\naround other things.<\/p>\n

Usually, the star performer in my Christmas cookie plate is Alton
\nBrown’s Chocolate
\nPeppermint Pinwheel<\/a>.  I’ve been known to (have to) make more
\nthan one batch of them in a season.<\/p>\n

This year, it was a good cookie gone very, very bad…<\/p>\n

\"gone<\/p>\n

Note how the chocolate layer is broken\/breaking off. <\/p>\n

\"one<\/p>\n

\nI’m still not really sure what happened, though I have a
\nsuspicion.  The cookies are made by making one batch of butter
\ncookie dough, splitting it in half, adding peppermint flavouring to
\nhalf of it and chocolate to the rest.  I.e., the base cookie dough
\nis the same in the whole cookie.<\/p>\n

When I went to roll the doughs out, the chocolate dough was hard<\/span>.  It actually clattered
\nwhen it hit the counter.  This was straight out of the fridge, so
\nI waited to see if it would behave any better when warmed.  My
\nsuspicion is that I didn’t split the dough evenly enough, and that
\nthrew off the ratio of melted chocolate to dough in the chocolate
\nsegment.  So, it was hard chocolate hitting the counter.  I
\nwound up having to heat the dough in the microwave (for 30 seconds) to
\nbe able to roll it out — but it never behaved like a cohesive whole,
\nas is witnessed by the broken bits above.<\/p>\n

Oh, well.  Still tasty.  But I don’t think I can put them in
\nChristmas cookie gifts!<\/p>\n

The beauty of doing 8 batches is that, for every failure such as the
\nabove, there are successes… The raspberry
\njam-filled, chocolate dipped <\/a>ones seem to have come out okay.<\/p>\n

\"jam<\/p>\n

\nAnd, the ginger bread condescended to let me roll it out and cut it
\nthis year.<\/p>\n

\"ginger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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