Save the Cookies

December 18, 2008 9:30 PM

Christmas Cookies Disasters filter: I was making Aunt Sis's Strawberry Tart Cookies, Gourmet's favorite from 1993. They spreaded into flat disks.

Same thing happened to this person.
Luckily, I didn't fill them with jam. So, now I have bunch of ugly, but tasty cookies. They are not really presentable, so I don't want them in my Christmas Cookie Box. I was thinking of blending them, and use the cookie crumbs in another recipe. Or something like that. What do you do with your unfortunate cookies?

posted by leigh1 to Food & Drink (7 answers total)

Mash them up and sprinkle them over ice cream.
posted by coppermoss at 9:45 PM on December 18, 2008

Keep them for myself.
posted by longsleeves at 10:05 PM on December 18, 2008

You can use the crumbs in other holiday recipes like rum balls.
posted by Bella Sebastian at 10:14 PM on December 18, 2008

I eat the ugly cookies. It just means more cookies for me.
But you could dip yours in chocolate to make them look better.
posted by moonshine at 12:12 AM on December 19, 2008

npr had a cloying segment on how to prevent these cookie problems, some good info though.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98275947
posted by flummox at 6:18 AM on December 19, 2008

from flummox's article :

Corriher also suggests making cookie batter the night before, a method adopted for the original Toll House recipe. Overnight, the proteins and the starch soak in liquid, the enzymes break the starches into sugar and big sugar breaks down into smaller sugar. Small sugars brown well, she says.

This works like a charm for me. Leave the dough in the fridge overnight. When they bake, they keep a nice, globular cookie shape.
posted by Afroblanco at 8:10 AM on December 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

spread more jam on a cookie, top with another upside down cookie. Dip in chocolate, let harden on wax paper.
posted by oneirodynia at 11:40 AM on December 19, 2008