The Munchies Blog

I felt like baking the other day, so I made chocolate crinkle cookies from a recipe at Anne’s Food.

It feels a bit strange to make them: most of the moisture comes from melted chocolate and butter, and they have to stand in the fridge overnight. Then you form small balls, roll them in icing sugar, and put them on a cookie sheet — almost like baking chocolate truffles…

The cookies look very good (I was actually quite impressed — I have this unfortunate tendency to mess up things that are supposed to look good, but this time things went really well). I’m not that happy with the taste though. It feels like something’s missing. Maybe it’s because they do look a bit like christmas cookies, but there isn’t even any cinnamon or something in there. I think next time I’ll try adding some chopped almonds or something.

After reading a posting on Chocolate & Zucchini about a cookie baking mix that is sold in glass jars, layered up like those “colored sand in a pictureframe” things, I decided that this would make a good present.

The cookie recipe I used is this one (I basically used the first one from allrecipes.com that looked okay and didn’t ask for raisins or anything like that).

Of course I had to try the cookie recipe first. What a good opportunity for my new cookie jar (from IKEA). I just fear they won’t last long — I really like them. Andreas doesn’t, though (”too much salt, too much butter”). But maybe that’s a good thing ;)

I don’t know if it’s actually going to work out with making cookies from this mix. After all, the original recipe says to mix the butter with the sugar first and add the other ingredients afterwards. But I guess with a food processor that doesn’t matter too much.

If I ever hear what happened to the jar I gave away, I’ll write about it.