Such a list of plans I had for today! And. honestly it all started off pretty well. Last night after telling one son the pants size of another backwards I worried all night that I had ordered 32" W and 36"L instead of the other way around on the order I placed yesterday morning! When I checked this morning I had done it correctly so I was reassured I had lost only part of my marbles!
I proceeded to throw a load of fabric in the washer so I can sew this afternoon. Then made a few necessary phone calls. Actually it was moving right along. I had washed and dried my cookie press last night to be ready this morning so I proceeded to mix up the dough. It has been a couple of years since I have had this cookie press out so I opted to use the cookie recipe enclosed for and Italian Biscuit to be sure things would go smoothly. I headed down and looked up the recipe conversions from grams and pounds to cups and was ready to roll.
Ingredients for Italian Biscuits (Cookies):
4 C. all purpose flour
1 C. + 2 T. sugar
1 C. melted and cooled butter
pinch of salt
4-6 T. milk
3 egg yolks
2 t. cocoa (optional)
Place the flour, sugar and salt into a bowl and whisk together. Make a well in the center and beat the egg yolks adding the cooled melted butter and stir together with a fork. Using your hands add the milk a few droplets at a time until the dough is formed and holds together. Form into sausage like rolls about 1 1/2 -2 " wide to fit into the shaft of the cookie press.
Press the cookies through into desired shapes, sprinkle with sugars, and bake 12-15 minutes. Cool and store in an airtight container. Yield 6 dozen small cookies.
So away we went BUT ALAS after 2 pans of cookies the press LOCKED UP and would not budge! A broken cookie press did not fit in my plan! First I decided to forget it and put the dough away in the refrigerator. Then I thought no I don't want to clean up the same mess twice.....So, (HELPFUL HINT) I poured decorative sugar in a paper plate and rolled each log until it was coated and just sliced them off and baked them. All is well that ends well I guess! They taste fine and while they are not as pretty as I had hoped they still have a bit of Christmas Spirit about them.
Could you flatten the dough and use a cookie cutter?
ReplyDeleteI thought about that but I was so frustrated at that point this seemed easier and less trouble. I make a cutout cookie I really like and will do next week. Thanks for the suggestion though. My patience was shot for that day.
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