March 15, 2008: Chocolate Raspberry Sandwich Cookies

giving me the mixer was a no-brainer;

I'd live assist a belated birthday dinner for Marty midweek;

We owed Tracy together with Lee thank you lot for lending us camping ground gear for Golden Plains; and

Mike's birthday was equally good coming up!

With this much going on, I decided to brand a double batch of chewy chocolate-raspberry cookie sammiches from last fourth dimension I used it;

I replaced the shortening inwards the icing amongst to a greater extent than margarine, since I couldn't detect it (nor copha) at the shops;

I replaced the soy milk amongst rice milk.

My results were mixed. I don't intend the crude oil type made whatever departure to the cookie dough, together with I was happy to escape the perfume of bitter almond. However my cookies, i time cooled, were crunchy together with non chewy, genuinely quite difficult on the teeth! (By hence I'd baked the entire mix together with couldn't modify my baking times.) I went to simply about endeavor non to overcook these (I whipped them out of the oven earlier the bases could colour upwards at all) hence I tin solely emphasise that they request real footling oven fourth dimension at all.

Margarine doesn't bring the firmness of butter, together with hence this icing doesn't harden from its just-whipped spreadable state. As a consequence, it struggles to back upwards the superlative cookie during storage together with eating. Squishy, fifty-fifty melting, icing everywhere! I suspect that using simply about shortening or copha would amend on this. As it was, I tended to H2O ice the correct pose out of cookie sandwiches a few hours earlier giving them away, hence popping them inwards the freezer to theatre upwards earlier boxing them upwards simply earlier I dashed out the door. It was a reasonably successful strategy.

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