Breakfast + Cookies = YES
Our 2nd recipe to review from Bake the Seasons is on page 124; Harvest Breakfast Cookies.
When you can eat cookies for breakfast, it is a win-win.
Ingredients
Please weigh your ingredients
- all-purpose flour= 170 grams
- oats = 80 grams
- sugar = 100 grams
- baking soda = 2.5 grams
- cinnamon = 2 grams
- butter = 185 grams
- vanilla = 6 grams
- almonds = 46 grams
- cranberries = 50 grams
- coconut = 75 grams
- dark chocolate - I changed to 60 grams
- I added 100 grams semi- sweet chocolate chips
- I added 50 grams of chocolate covered pineapple
- I added 1 egg yolk
- I added 1 teaspoon/4 grams cookie dough extract
Blooming your Spices
When it comes to baking, most of us just whisk ground spices into the dry ingredients without a second thought. But there is another way: the spice-blooming technique.
Heating the spices in butter works well because the flavor compounds in certain spices are fat-soluble. That means that hot fat (oil or butter, usually) will extract those compounds, flavoring the fat. This well-flavored fat can then be dispersed throughout a dish better than a teaspoon of dry, crushed spices can.
The Bake
Do you ever why so many cookie recipes call for resting the dough in fridge before baking. Here are three reasons why this is a really important step.
1. TASTE
- the flavour becomes more concentrated
- as dough chills, it loses moisture: this in turn, concentrates the remaining ingredients
2. TEXTURE
- when dough rests, it’s sugar levels become more concentrated as excess moisture is absorbed
- the higher the percentage of sugar in the dough, the more likely your cookies will turn out chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside
3. SHAPE
- chilling the dough solidifies the fat, making the cookies less likely to spread during baking
**NOTE**
At the bakery our cookie dough always rested for 48hr minimum
Using a cookie scoop will give you uniform cookies.
The Results
My rating of this recipe is 5 out of 5. The perfect kitchen sink cookie recipe. Make this cookie your own by substituting the add-ins to your taste.
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