cooking fail

[hudebnik]

shalmestere has been pining in recent weeks for black-and-white cookies -- that is, cookies that are basically black with cocoa, studded with white and dark chocolate chips. So last night I went out to the grocery, bought the chocolate chips, assembled the rest of the ingredients, and made a batch. As I dolloped them onto the cookie sheet, I thought "these don't look very black", and "this dough is on the thin-and-sticky side". Indeed, I added a few tablespoonfuls of flour before dolloping the second cookie sheet. I put them in the oven, then started cleaning up the kitchen, putting measuring cups and spoons in the dishwasher, hand-washing mixing bowls... and I found the mixing bowl I had used for the dry ingredients, still full of flour and cocoa. Which would explain why the dough wasn't very black, and wasn't as thick as I expected.

I pulled the cookie sheets out of the oven, where each cookie had spread out into a good-sized pancake with a desegregated pile of chocolate chips in the middle. Since things hadn't cooked for very long yet, I was about to scrape it all back into a mixing bowl and add the flour and cocoa, but shalmestere said "no, it's already cooked; just throw it away." Then, on second thought, she suggested scraping the stuff into custard cups, baking them in a bain-marie, and pretending they were chocolate custard or flourless chocolate cake. So we did that, giving them about 40 minutes at 350°F in a baking tray with water halfway up the sides of the custard cups. The result was a little too sweet, not the greatest texture, but not bad with vanilla ice cream.

I saved the flour-and-cocoa mixture in a Tupperware container; I guess today I buy more white chocolate chips and try again.