Baking disasters and other funny things

[wiseheart]

I was baking today. Yeah, surprising, innit? I tried out the gingerbread cookie recipe I wanted to bake with the kids before Xmas. Guess what? We won't be baking it. I could not get the dough to a consistence that would have enable me to roll it out in the first place. Of course, what can you expect from a recipe that requires 4 tablespoons of butter? Not melted butter, mind you, just regular butter. Now, how on Earth am I supposed to measure butter with a tablespoon? (A colleague of mine suggested using a bomb, but that was too radical for my taste.)

Clearly, I couldn't get the amounts right. The dough fell apart like Hungarian economy, and let me tell you, that's a spectacular fall! So I made little buttons and baked them, and then painted them with eggwhite and rolled them in coloured sugar. Even so, they are slighlty bitter. 3 teaspoons of ginger were too much. I never listen to the recipe again.

OTOH, I also baked the honeycake house from the Dr.Oetker package, and it turned out great. Even the sugar icing from the tube worked. It's a lovely little thing, my Knusperhäuschen, Mum is happy with it.

Other than that, I wrote a lot of Merlin stuff (4 pages of Chapter 11) and watched some TV. "Richterin Barbara Salesch" und "Panda, Gorilla & Co". I need to nurture my German a bit, too.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ja das ist wahr. Die Dinger schmecken nicht mal übel, sie sind halt bloß keine Kekse sondern Knöllchen, und das war wirklich nicht der Sinn der Sache. Ich wollte sie als Christbaumschmuck verwenden.

Das Knusperhäuschen aus der Dr Oetker Fertigpackung ist aber sehr gut gelungen, und es war auch extrem einfach. Wir haben es heute zusammengestellt und sind sehr zufrieden mit ihm.