The Baking Disaster from Tuesday
Dec. 18th, 2008 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, on Tuesday I decided that it was time to bake something again. I found a very interesting - not to mention fairly expensive - recipe, which required 150 grams of ground hazelnuts (darn hard to get over here) and the same amount of ground dark chocolate, among other things. I followed the recipe religiously, rolled the little balls, shoved the baking tin into the oven and waited joyfully for the results.
Ten minutes later, the baking tin was filled with a homogenous mass that blubbered like lava before the eruption of a volcano. I yanked the tin out of the oven before the dangerously alive mass could in fact explode. It deflated at once. The result, instead of beautifully rounded Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies are flat biscuits that I cut from the cooled mass with a knife. They taste delicious, but it looks like shit. *is sad*
The other cookies, Husarenkrapferln, Maronenstangerln and Granny's special Todánfánk, which is made with walnuts, turned out great, though. So, seventeen sorts of cookies made, one ruined... actually, not that bad a result.
Ten minutes later, the baking tin was filled with a homogenous mass that blubbered like lava before the eruption of a volcano. I yanked the tin out of the oven before the dangerously alive mass could in fact explode. It deflated at once. The result, instead of beautifully rounded Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies are flat biscuits that I cut from the cooled mass with a knife. They taste delicious, but it looks like shit. *is sad*
The other cookies, Husarenkrapferln, Maronenstangerln and Granny's special Todánfánk, which is made with walnuts, turned out great, though. So, seventeen sorts of cookies made, one ruined... actually, not that bad a result.
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Date: 2008-12-19 07:31 am (UTC)And your score is on the winning side!
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Date: 2008-12-19 09:43 am (UTC)I'd still eat them! :D
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Date: 2008-12-19 09:53 pm (UTC)I remember my mum trying to make chocolate cake which ended up as something halfway between a brownie and a biscuit and looked like a road traffic accident. It tasted lovely, so she pretended it was supposed to come out flat :DD
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Date: 2008-12-19 07:33 pm (UTC)>>a homogenous mass that blubbered like lava before the eruption of a volcano<<
Ooooh! Sounds rather traumatic - but I'm glad they taste fine, after all. Wonder what in the recipe caused the seismic activities?
>>hazelnuts (darn hard to get over here)<< Really? Hazels grow wild around our yard and in our 'forest' (but unfortunately, some bug usually gets to them before us and eats 95% of the nuts).
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