My second cookie challenge is Chocolate-Molasses Cookies from Martha Steward site.
Normally I experiment when I’m cooking. Baking is no exception, I can’t help but to tamper with original recipe ingredients – I replaced butter with apple sauce, and semi-sweet chocolate is now 60% bitter-sweet chocolates.
I brought a few finished cookies to work to share with Lara, a talented studio artist also a baking veteran. She tasted it and was able to tell I didn’t follow the recipe exactly.
The cookie was more densed than she expected. She explained when butter was swapped with apple sauce, the protein in the recipe was taken away, therefore affected the texture of the cookies.
As for me, I liked the cookies. Then again I never not like anything I made. Ktula didn’t like it though. The taste is “too healthy” for his liking. Fine, I’ll use butter next time.
Living in the Seattle area, Smelly is a user experience designer by day, a running, cycling, gardening type of girl when she wasn't wearing the designer hat.
