FrekeChild
Super_Ideal_Rock
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DKS! I'm shocked that no one has commented on your presence here. Welcome back!!!!
...stepping on soapbox...
I'm just going to throw this out here--a bit of a rant if you will--I don't see the point in making baked goods healthier. To me, that defeats the purpose. Cookies and the like are meant to be indulgences. Making them healthier makes you feel better about eating them, but it's my opinion that the taste goes down, and you eat more of them to compensate for not getting the *good* stuff you're craving. There have actually been studies about this regarding poor quality chocolate (ex: Hershey) and higher quality (ex: Valhrona), and that a small amount of higher quality product quells cravings faster and better-in the end you eat fewer calories. So I'll take the full quantity of butter, heavy cream, sugar, the whole nine yards, in my baked goods. But I'm a purist, and I don't like uber processed food. My mantra for food in general is that if my great great grandma wouldn't recognize it, I probably shouldn't be eating it. Doesn't stop me sometimes, but it does with baked goods.
...stepping off my soapbox...
Mara Don't mess with the biscochitos recipes! There won't ever be anything like the original (although I never use lard-always butter). And besides, that's a pound of butter to 6 cups of flour. That'd be 1 stick of butter to 1.5 cups of flour, which really isn't that abnormal for any cookie recipe.
Rum Balls
Ok, I've been banned from posting some of my favorite cookie recipes (by FF), and so I have no cookie recipes to share. Not to mention we don't really have any cookie recipes for the holidays anyway because my mom is an awful baker.
However, I really really love to make rum balls for the holidays, but I don't have a recipe, and I've never used one. Basically I just save up old cake from the rest of the year (Gwen will remember the nutella mess cakes) and then crumble them up (I like to use frozen yellow cake and frozen chocolate cake, frozen because then they don't just mash together and make light chocolate cakey stuff), add some rum, and some chocolate, nuts are optional. Then goal is to get it to a consistency that can be rolled into balls (sometimes I'll refrigerate them or freeze them to help make it go faster) and then roll them in melted dark chocolate. So depending on the quality of the chocolate (it's actually best to use worse quality chocolate for this because you don't have to temper it) you have a stiff texture on the outside, and a soft velvety texture on the inside. And RUM!
And old cake works best because it absorbs more rum. And no one ever argues with that!
...stepping on soapbox...
I'm just going to throw this out here--a bit of a rant if you will--I don't see the point in making baked goods healthier. To me, that defeats the purpose. Cookies and the like are meant to be indulgences. Making them healthier makes you feel better about eating them, but it's my opinion that the taste goes down, and you eat more of them to compensate for not getting the *good* stuff you're craving. There have actually been studies about this regarding poor quality chocolate (ex: Hershey) and higher quality (ex: Valhrona), and that a small amount of higher quality product quells cravings faster and better-in the end you eat fewer calories. So I'll take the full quantity of butter, heavy cream, sugar, the whole nine yards, in my baked goods. But I'm a purist, and I don't like uber processed food. My mantra for food in general is that if my great great grandma wouldn't recognize it, I probably shouldn't be eating it. Doesn't stop me sometimes, but it does with baked goods.
...stepping off my soapbox...
Mara Don't mess with the biscochitos recipes! There won't ever be anything like the original (although I never use lard-always butter). And besides, that's a pound of butter to 6 cups of flour. That'd be 1 stick of butter to 1.5 cups of flour, which really isn't that abnormal for any cookie recipe.
Rum Balls
Ok, I've been banned from posting some of my favorite cookie recipes (by FF), and so I have no cookie recipes to share. Not to mention we don't really have any cookie recipes for the holidays anyway because my mom is an awful baker.
However, I really really love to make rum balls for the holidays, but I don't have a recipe, and I've never used one. Basically I just save up old cake from the rest of the year (Gwen will remember the nutella mess cakes) and then crumble them up (I like to use frozen yellow cake and frozen chocolate cake, frozen because then they don't just mash together and make light chocolate cakey stuff), add some rum, and some chocolate, nuts are optional. Then goal is to get it to a consistency that can be rolled into balls (sometimes I'll refrigerate them or freeze them to help make it go faster) and then roll them in melted dark chocolate. So depending on the quality of the chocolate (it's actually best to use worse quality chocolate for this because you don't have to temper it) you have a stiff texture on the outside, and a soft velvety texture on the inside. And RUM!
And old cake works best because it absorbs more rum. And no one ever argues with that!
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