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Cookie Unit
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Our class just finished the cookie unit where we learned how to make classic chocolate chip cookies, healthy chocolate chip cookies, specialty cookies, and bar cookies.
After baking then tasting both the chocolate chip cookies using the original Toll House recipe and the healthier chocolate chip cookies, I learned that healthy versions of recipes can be just as good- if not better- than the original. We substituted egg whites for whole eggs and cut down on the amount of butter and chocolate chips added. I loved the taste of the healthy cookies and knowing how much better they were for you than the originals made them even better!
Another of my favorite recipes we made during this unit was the snickerdoodle specialty cookies my group chose to make. We found a recipe online and modified it by following the given directions for the dough then inserting a caramel piece into the middle of the cookie so that it would melt while in the oven. During the process of creating these cookies, we learned how to roll the balls of dough in the cinnamon sugar mixture before placing them on the cookie sheet and how to recognize that snickerdoodles are done baking once cracks can be seen on the face-up side of the cookie. Our end product was delicious!
When my group made our Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip biscotti, we ran into a time issue. Biscotti must be cooked once for about 25 minutes, taken out and cut, then cooked again for another 8 minutes or so, but because of the length of the class period and the fact that we put our biscotti in later than planned; they did not get the full time to cook. Our biscotti were only in the oven for the first 25 minute session. We decided to take the cookies out and eat them as they were because they were cooked all the way through, just not as hard as the traditional biscotti. The cookies were still yummy!
I thoroughly enjoyed this cookie unit because of all the units we have completed, I am most likely to make cookies at home. Learning these new recipes will add some variation to what I normally bake. (Marissa T)
After baking then tasting both the chocolate chip cookies using the original Toll House recipe and the healthier chocolate chip cookies, I learned that healthy versions of recipes can be just as good- if not better- than the original. We substituted egg whites for whole eggs and cut down on the amount of butter and chocolate chips added. I loved the taste of the healthy cookies and knowing how much better they were for you than the originals made them even better!
Another of my favorite recipes we made during this unit was the snickerdoodle specialty cookies my group chose to make. We found a recipe online and modified it by following the given directions for the dough then inserting a caramel piece into the middle of the cookie so that it would melt while in the oven. During the process of creating these cookies, we learned how to roll the balls of dough in the cinnamon sugar mixture before placing them on the cookie sheet and how to recognize that snickerdoodles are done baking once cracks can be seen on the face-up side of the cookie. Our end product was delicious!
When my group made our Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip biscotti, we ran into a time issue. Biscotti must be cooked once for about 25 minutes, taken out and cut, then cooked again for another 8 minutes or so, but because of the length of the class period and the fact that we put our biscotti in later than planned; they did not get the full time to cook. Our biscotti were only in the oven for the first 25 minute session. We decided to take the cookies out and eat them as they were because they were cooked all the way through, just not as hard as the traditional biscotti. The cookies were still yummy!
I thoroughly enjoyed this cookie unit because of all the units we have completed, I am most likely to make cookies at home. Learning these new recipes will add some variation to what I normally bake. (Marissa T)
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