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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.

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Date: 2008-12-19 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cirdan-havens.livejournal.com
Taste good is all that matters! :D Sounds very tasty.

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
They are, indeed. ;)

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Date: 2008-12-19 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistry89.livejournal.com
Taste (and the names!) are what matters - appearances are for Visitors, not Family *g*
And your score is on the winning side!

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
It is, isn't it? Go me!

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com
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*

I'd still eat them! :D

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I would gladly share them, for it would mean to meet you in person. :)

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com
Aww that's kind.
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: 2008-12-21 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
The best defence is attack right? *g*

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com
Definitely. Anyway, we weren't exactly sure what it should look like :DD

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Date: 2008-12-19 11:49 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Ilija Sleeper Cell)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Well, if you don't want them, I volunteer to relieve you off them :P

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Date: 2008-12-19 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Well, come over and be welcome!

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Date: 2008-12-20 08:49 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Awww, I would love to if I could! :)

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Well, we're not *that* far apart. We should be able to arrange something - perhaps next summer?

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Date: 2008-12-22 09:26 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
That'd be nice.

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Date: 2008-12-19 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lissas-elves.livejournal.com
They all sound delicious - and such exotic names. lol

>>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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Date: 2008-12-19 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I wonder myself about the reason. Perhaps they roast and salt all of them, that's why you can't get any natural flavoured ones.

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Date: 2008-12-21 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ithilwen.livejournal.com
Since they still taste good, I'd only count that as half a disaster. :)

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Mum says they're excellent. IMO they're not bad, but considering how expensive the ingredients were, they ought to be a lot better. Even in a ruined shape. *is angry*
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