Pops De Milk

Not too long ago I acquired yet another baking book. It’s called 1 dough, 100 cookies by Linda Doeser. I hadn’t baked any of the cookies in the book until today because I couldn’t make up my mind on which recipe to try. I figured chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon would be a safe and easy way to start. I’ve adapted the recipe slightly:

Makes about 30-34 cookies

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup golden yellow sugar

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 semi sweet chocolate chips

salt

For the coating:

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375F. Mix the butter and sugar together until creamy, then beat in the egg yolk and vanilla. Sift together the flour and a pinch of salt into the mixture. Add the chocolate chips and combine. At this point I stared, confused, at the dry and crumbly “dough” in my bowl. It looked more like pie pastry before it’s kneaded together, which is what I decided to do. I had to knead the dough with my hands until it had the consistency of cookie dough. Once that’s ready, scoop out tablespoons of dough and roll into balls. For the coating, mix the cinnamon and sugar in a shallow bowl and roll the cookie dough balls around to coat. Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and flatten each ball slightly. The book says to bake for 12-15 minutes but I’d say bake 15-20 minutes, depending on how crappy or awesome your oven is. In my case I took them out after 20 minutes because they never changed their shape, I thought the butter would melt and they’d transform into flatter cookies. Instead they kept their original shape.

The first cookie I tried was kind of a let down. I was expecting a hard and crunchy cookie but it was just crumbly and the flavour seemed a little weird, like old oil. The next cookie I ate was a thousand times better, crumbly, sweet and full of cinnamon. So I’m thinking that maybe the first cookie touched a part of the Silpat sheet with oil residue? I’m not sure. Anyway, these things are a little addictive and I’ve eaten about 10 of them now, so be careful.

Cookies with a glass of almond milk.