I Failed The Dreamwidth Litmus Test

[jpegghost]

One funeral later, I have the rest of today and tomorrow off. Yay! Time to devote it all to school or Animal Crossing.

Unlike the rest of Dreamwidth's userbase, I am terrible at baking. I can cook just about anything and do it well, but baking is too exact a science for me. Candy-making even more so.
I have been gleefully collecting recipe cards from my family for a while now because I enjoy the antiquity of recipe boxes, and a few days ago my cousin from the Austrian side of the family had unearthed some ancient cookie, kolachy, and stöllen recipes from my grandparent's basement. Alex immediately got excited for the spice cookies, and I warily accepted the task of ruining relations with my deceased grandmother.

Let me explain myself. The archaic card said I should roll those bastards into 'walnut sized balls' and put on a baking sheet. I don't eat a lot of walnuts. I don't know how big walnuts are. I never crack open a cold walnut with the boys. I put some circles on the sheet and when I pulled them out of the oven ten minutes later, they were all merging and i had to quickly divide them. They became square.
Beforehand, Alex grabbed a maybe-walnut-sized ball of raw dough, shoved it in his mouth, then proclaimed "It tastes like the old country!"

Thank you for your input, sir.

Regardless of my boyfriend's antics and my inability to foresee cookies spreading and morphing together like one large brick, they are extremely delicious and Alex and I have been shoveling them into our faces.

Comments

[jpegghost]

Oooh, you're right! I think I will do that right now. Here you go buddy, sorry grandma:

- 3/4 cup of butter, room temperature
- 1 cup or sugar (white or brown)
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 1 egg
-2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp powdered cloves
- 1 tsp cinnamon

1. Mix butter and sugar until the large lumps are gone, then add the egg and molasses
2. Add flour, baking soda, and spices, mix
3. Roll into """""walnut sized balls""""
4. Dip into granulated sugar (I recommend getting a bowl of sugar and throwing them in like I did)
5. Bake 10-12 minutes at 375F

It took me about 20-30 minutes total to make it, it was fun. I recommend really spacing out the cookies, they spread like crazy once they're exposed to heat. This should make you two cookie sheets worth. The taste reminds me of ginger snaps, but the texture is much softer.

[8hyenas]

I made the cookies! Well, I have never followed a recipe in my life so they were more "inspired by" but the Ginger Cayenne Old World/New Cookies are great! I tried the chilling them thing and they still spread out but I only made eight so mine are round but huge. How sad for me ))))

First thing in the new oven!

[jpegghost]

YES!!!

I'm so happy you like them! They spread like crazy no matter what, it drives me bananas!

Yay the new oven has been christened!