Any bakers online? I need some help. Many thanks in advance

[janet-in-nc]

I just made the following cookie recipe from Cooking Light. A prize winner, they say. I followed in exactly and the "dough" hardly sticks together to get in on the cookie sheet. The cookies are awful, INMHO. I used the good cherries I brought back from France too. Anything I can add now to ressurect these things into a decent cookie?

Chocolate Cherry Heart Smart Cookies

1/3 C white flour

1/3C whole wheat flour

1.5 C rolled oats

1/2 t salt

1 t baking soda

3/4 C brown sugar

1 C dried cherries

1 t vanilla

1 egg beaten

6 T butter melted

3 oz choc chips, chopped

 

[curious1]

Don't you hate it when that happens? I checked out the reviews on line and they're actually quite

good. I scanned them, didn't see any mention of your problem or a way to solve it. But here's the link, in case you want to take a look. Good luck!

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=showRatings&forwardAction=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000001949710

 

[janet-in-nc]

I can't believe the reviews. I have re-read the recipe several times and

I did exactly what it said. One reviewer did say she couldn't take them to a pot luck because they were falling apart. That's what mine did. The only good thing I can say is that they taste good.

 

[lizzy]

Maybe use it as an ice cream topping?

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

Can you grind them and use them as you would graham cracker crumbs? Use them...

...as a crust for a cream pie?

Michael

 

[janet-in-nc]

Thanks Michael and lizzy but I had a hissy fit while trying to bake the rest and

pitched it down the disposal and made orange/pecan biscotti, a tried and true, instead. Now I feel better. smileys/smile.gif

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

There you go...

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

It's bad karma to try and bake healthy cookies, methinks.

 

[cheezz]

especially during the holidays

 

[sylvia]

Looks like there'snot enough butter in the recipe. Of course, with more butter, the cookies won't be

heart healthy. I'd add another 4 T of butter to the mix.

 

[melissa-dallas]

I'm voting with you on this one.

 

[erininny]

I just made a cookie like this... Followed the rec. exactly, but it wouldn't bind--

The recipe recommended chilling the dough for 30 minutes, but that didn't work, either, and I knew the cookies would crumble. So I added enough cold water to make the dough stick together, then re-froze the dough, and that produced cohesive, slice-able cookies. (But, being a prone-to-disaster baker, I figured I'd just have gloppy cookies; instead, they turned out ok.)

For reference, these were the Cranberry Coin cookies from the Martha Stewart Holiday Cookies special issue. (Don't mock me, please.) smileys/wink.gif

 

[angak]

LOL