Well I just have to say that I am SO glad next week's Tuesdays with Dorie is NOT a cookie! I have never made so many cookies in my life... Personally I prefer really simple cookies so the addition of all these nuts and fruits over the past couple of weeks has meant that they have not been getting eaten (by me anyway... S is another story). So I wasn't really surprised when I tasted a chocolate chunker and didn't really like it. I should have halved the recipe as it ended up making more than I thought it would. We (and by we, of course I mean S) ate about a quarter of them, the other quarter went in the bin and I have a freezer full of left over cookies to be baked sometime in the future! I'll probably bake them and palm them off when I can next.
Now I am all for 'playing around' as Dorie calls it, but S won't have a bar of it! I really wanted to add dried sour cherries or dried cranberries instead of the raisins but being the purist that he is, he wouldn't allow it. He even saw that Dorie's picture had white chocolate chips and insisted we use them- we both strongly dislike white chocolate... Instead of peanuts I also wanted to use toasted pecans but really I was fighting a lost cause. I'm sure I would have enjoyed these more with those substitutes.
I don't like giving away up coming Tuesday with Dorie recipes but I am in a bit of a pickle about the next one. A recipe has been chosen which requires summer fruits, but it has only just hit Spring here so we don't have anything available yet. I have some idea's for a substitute so hopefully it works!
The chocolate chunkers were chosen by Claudia of Fool for Food.
Now I am all for 'playing around' as Dorie calls it, but S won't have a bar of it! I really wanted to add dried sour cherries or dried cranberries instead of the raisins but being the purist that he is, he wouldn't allow it. He even saw that Dorie's picture had white chocolate chips and insisted we use them- we both strongly dislike white chocolate... Instead of peanuts I also wanted to use toasted pecans but really I was fighting a lost cause. I'm sure I would have enjoyed these more with those substitutes.
I don't like giving away up coming Tuesday with Dorie recipes but I am in a bit of a pickle about the next one. A recipe has been chosen which requires summer fruits, but it has only just hit Spring here so we don't have anything available yet. I have some idea's for a substitute so hopefully it works!
The chocolate chunkers were chosen by Claudia of Fool for Food.
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