Thursday, September 03, 2009

I DID IT and YOU CAN TOO!!!

 
I am so excited. They worked!! I was thinking at a couple of points they would not work. First I found a recipe in my cookbook Betty Crocker Cookie Book. Then got to work on making them. But when they were done they did not look quite right. Dry and crumbly. But I thought maybe if I squish it together with my hands then it will be fine. I thought though I better double check the recipe that I added everything. Well would you look at that. I forgot to add the egg. Oh brother.  Well good thing I found out now. So I added that and everything came together beautifully. So now to get out the cookie press. I read the instructions how to use it, tthen proceed ahead. I take a bunch of dough and shape it into a log, then shove the log inside the press. pick a shape and screw on the top. Then we are good to go right? I start to press the dough out but nothing happens. It comes out but in a jumbled mess. What is this. Oi! Doesn't work why did I try again. So I phone a friend who bakes alot maybe she has used on of these before. But to my luck she is not home. Then I get a brillant idea. Youtube! They have a video for everything. So I check and sure enough they had a video on how to use a cookie press. I watched 3 videos and went to work. To my delight it WORKED!!! You have seen the picture as proof. Hurray!! I can make spritz cookies. Woo Hoo!!!! I am tickled pink. Well off to making the lemonade. Lemonade and Cookie stand opens at 3:00pm and as it is 2:30pm I better get going.

6 comments:

  1. So, Deborah, you didn't share what you did wrong - after discovering you missed the egg. I was kind of waiting for that... ;o)

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  2. After all that work I didn't even try a sprinkle cookie...sorry- the chocolate wins out every time.

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  3. charlotte I am not sure what you mean? I will have to go back and reread what I wrote. Then I can give a proper response.

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  4. The egg is what I did wrong. Not remembering it. But then I did remember it. I think that's it. Does that make sense Charlotte?

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  5. No, what I meant was that you wrote that even after you added the egg, it wasn't working for you and you had to check out some YouTube videos. So I was just wondering what you did wrong since the batter came out in a "jumbled mess"?

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  6. Ah! thanks for clarifying. Once I added the egg the batter turned out. But I could not figure out how to use the press. So that is what I went to youtube for. The instructions said one or two presses and the cookie would pop out. But it just was a jumbled mess coming out. Then on youtube I figured out how to do it properly. The press is suppose to be flush with the pan. Which I was not doing. Then with a bit of playing around I got them to work. Different shapes come out differently. But I will definately use the press again as I loved these cookies. They tasted so good. Kind of a cross between a shortbread and a sugar cookie.

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