when good recipes go bad?

[nageov3t]

anyone else have some pre-christmas cooking they need to vent about?

before she died, my aunt used to make hershey kiss peanut butter cookies every christmas. this year, I thought it would be nice to whip up a batch for my cousins... so I call my mom on thursday, ask her to email me the recipe, and lo and behold, as of right now, no recipe.

so I decided just to pull up a recipe from the internet that seemed more or less the same. http://www.hersheys.com/recipe...Page=true#content_area

so I go out, do my shopping, come home, spend some quality time in the kitchen making the cookies, and wtf... I followed the recipe to the letter and the "dough" is like a fine powder. :| there goes like an entire afternoon (not to mention the last of my cooking supplies) wasted.

/facepalm

 

[IronWing]

Add milk or egg white to get it to stick together more better.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Add milk or egg white to get it to stick together more better.

I was right about to try butter, but thanks for the suggestion :thumbsup:

I do indeed have extra milk.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Did you use shortening or did you substitute something else?

 

[nageov3t]

I'd like to nominate ironwing for elite

1 dollop of milk and the dough was like insta-win. I'll update after the first batch comes out of the oven. :milk;

Did you use shortening or did you substitute something else?

shortening... I added like a sliver of butter when I added the milk for the hell of it, figuring the recipe's already ruined, what more harm can I do? lol.

 

[Pepsei]

happens to me before.. but i was trying to make something complicated like cream puff. you have to cook the custard just right or it'll turn into brick (overcook), or slush (under cook). sure you can probably take a short cut and use custard powder instead...but it doesn't taste as good.

 

[spidey07]

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[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: spidey07
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:heart:

/hug

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: spidey07
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:heart:

/hug

Thanks dude.

I'll see if i can't rustle up a family secret.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I'd like to nominate ironwing for elite

1 dollop of milk and the dough was like insta-win. I'll update after the first batch comes out of the oven. :milk;

big success, btw :thumbsup:

they didn't come out perfect, like if I had used the recipe I wanted to, but they were certainly salvageable.