I want to tell you about the cookies I made today to take to the emergency department. These cookies were wonderful but could never be recreated. Let me tell you why.
I was organizing my cupboard and was embarrassed to find a few things I really wanted to get rid of so I decided to put them in cookies.
1. Almost a pound of See’s Bordeaux. These are my wife’s favorite. I bought them for her for her birthday. She enjoyed a few then renewed her dietary determinations and never ate them. After six months, they were hard and not fit to eat.
2. A bag of Cadbury caramel-filled chocolate eggs. I guess I bought them on sale after last Easter. After almost nine months in the cupboard, something needed to be done with them.
3. Half a milk chocolate-bacon bar. I bought this on a lark. Even though it was good chocolate, I didn’t like it enough to finish it off.
4. A blob of left-over filling from the Chocolate Chipotle Cookies With Smoky Salted Caramel that I recently posted.
So, I had my goodies identified. What recipe to put them in? I went to my blog and took a look at all the recipes I have posted to find a good candidate. As if happens, the first recipe on the list is $250.00 Cookies. They are pretty basic oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but they also call for shredded milk chocolate. A great target for my creative cupboard cleaning.
I mixed up the butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla, just like usual. Then I chopped up the caramel-milk chocolate eggs and the bacon chocolate bar. I threw the Bordeaux into the food processor and, since they were dry, they ended up almost powdered. I then threw the chopped eggs, the bacon chocolate bits, the powdered Bordeaux and the blob of left-over filling into the butter mixture. I then mixed them in really well.
I followed this with the powdered ingredients, then the chocolate chips, as usual in the recipe.
I scooped them and baked then as recommended in the recipe.
They came wonderfully. They are good looking cookies. They are very sweet and have a nice chew. And, they can never be reproduced.
This is one of the reasons I like baking cookies so much. You can follow a recipe exactly for the exact result every time. Or, you can scheme on something crazy and see how it turns out. What fun!
I love that you did that and even more so that they turned out. Good job!
Thanks! You are too kind!
Please tell your wife that she can send me her left over Sees Bordeauxs. they are my favorite too.
Will do!
You have good taste!
I wish that I were closer to your kitchen!
I could never leave a of Bordeaux sitting around so I probably couldn’t make these, but it is fun to read about your experiment!