However, next time I'll follow another reviewer's advice and
chill the butter before creaming.
Not exact matches
Hi Salina,
before chilling the dough will be slightly sticky, but not so much that you can not form balls (if you didn't let the
butter cool completely it will be too sticky).
I use all
butter and I
chill my dough
before baking - and EVERY time, I get the most perfect, soft, chewy, moist snickerdoodle cookies ever!
I used Dakatine all natural peanut
butter, used only 250g insted of 355g of light brown sugar, and
chilled the dough in the fridge
before scooping into 1 Tbsp balls that I cooked for 20 minutes at 180 °C (356 °F).
For the record of the natural peanut -
butter camp: I used 1 3/4 c of Trader Joe's creamy salted natural peanut
butter and 2 T of flour to stiffen the dough up a bit, then
chilled them in the fridge for 15 minutes
before baking; they turned out gorgeous, tender, and dome - y, like Deb's.
If the pieces of
butter are large enough, even if they melt a bit as you work the dough, they'll firm up when you
chill the dough again
before baking.
If you decide to substitute
butter for the shortening, for a nice chewy cookie, I would
chill the cookie dough
before cooking to help the cookies keep their plump shape and not flatten out on the cookie sheet.
They call for only a handful of ingredients, require no oven, stovetop, or candy thermometer, and request a modest 15 minutes of
chilling before you can coat the creamy peanut
butter balls in chocolate.
Take care that the
butter remains cool and firm: if it has softened or become oily,
chill it
before continuing.
If the dough's
butter softens too much while you are stirring,
chill dough until firm
before putting the biscuit in the oven.
So using a simple,
butter - sugar - egg - flour refrigerator dough (note: refrigerator doughs have to
chill for at least an hour
before you use them!)
Chicken and stock ingredients: 1 (3 1/2 pound) frying chicken 1 carrot 1 celery stalk 1 small onion, halved 2 teaspoons salt Pie crust ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all - purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick)
chilled unsalted
butter, diced into 1 / 2 - inch cubes (best to
chill cubes in the freezer for at least 15 minutes
before using) 1/4 cup vegetable shortening,
chilled 3 to 4 Tbsp ice water
I
chill my brown
butter a bit to re-thicken it
before creaming with the sugars.
Pro tip: Using
chilled butter and freezing the cookies
before baking encourages clean, tidy edges.
Menu highlights also include Hot Catfish, fried and covered with hot spice and chili oil and served on a bed of collard greens with tartar sauce; Grilled Shrimp & Grits, served with charred scallion - jalapeño
butter and fresh scallions; Smoked Pulled Pork, smoked for 17 hours
before being pulled, seasoned and coated with BBQ sauce; and Bacon N Biscuits, smoked and braised in onion and celery,
chilled, cut thick and grilled three times, then served with buttermilk biscuits, grilled onions and pimento relish.
This dough must have time to «
chill» out in the refrigerator
before its oven time or else they will spread and you will be left with these huge weird looking shaped peanut
butter cookies.