I've started the Christmas baking for the season. I'm planning on 9 batches, that's how many I did last year and that was just about perfect. However, it has started disastrously. I'm hoping this isn't a sign for the rest of the Christmas baking.
The first batch, a timeless slice and bake, is looking like it might just be a wash. As long as we can taste it, and judge it, then I don't care. I spent an hour and a half today assembling the cookie (it has to refrigerate overnight, so I haven't even baked it yet). It started badly. The recipe calls for chopped pistachios. So I'm in the grocery baking aisle. I see chopped pecans, macadamias, slivered almonds, chopped peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, but no pistachios. I can only find pistachios in the snack aisle. Did you know pistachios come in shells? So today I had to unshell enough pistachios and then chop them up in order to get 1/3 of a cup. Other than my thumbs being sore, that went well enough. The recipe then called for dividing the dough in half and in one half, putting the pistachios with milk and green food coloring in. I was supposed to stir it in. It called for 9 drops of food coloring, but it didn't change color. I had to put in about 30. I stirred, but the dough remained crumbly. The other half (consisting of raspberry jelly and red food coloring), mixed very well (I used the mixer). Then I had to take the two halves and make a rectangle.
To shorten this up - the two rectangles are made, they are stacked and they are in the refrigerator. The red half looks great, the green half looks like a crumbly pistachio green speckled bread. So we'll see how those turn out.
#175 Fudgy Walnut Brownies
I made these about 3 weeks ago for Old Lady Game night. It had a walnut crunch topping, interesting addition to a brownie. Needless to say, Mike loved it. It was a hit at old lady game night - but Megan agreed with me - they're just "enh". Of course, I don't actually like walnuts, so that might have had something to do with it.
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