This week's Baked Sunday Mornings recipe is "Cream Cheese Chocolate Snacking Cookies," a cookie Matt and Renato describe as a departure from the traditional Baked repertoire. It's an easy recipe to make. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar, and brown sugar; add eggs, cream, and vanilla; add dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder); added melted bittersweet chocolate and chocolate chips; chill, scoop; and bake. I used a #24 scoop and I got 32 cookies from each batch of dough.
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I have made these cookies before and the first time I thought I had not baked them long enough -- they were fully cooked, but quite soft and crumbly. So this time I made a deliberate effort to bake them for a bit longer. Still, my cookies ended up soft and crumbly. The texture is strange -- it's like there simply isn't enough holding the cookie together. When I layered the cookies neatly between sheets of wax paper in a rigid container, I didn't have any problems. But when I put one in a Ziploc bag and threw it in my lunch bag, it arrived at the office broken into bits.
The cookie tastes like straight chocolate, and while it was tasty, I thought the flavor was one note and not that interesting. I found myself wishing that these were mint chocolate chip cookies instead (fortunately, Baked Elements has a recipe for Chewy Chocolate Mint Cookies!). The chocolate chips add a lot of interest and if anything, I think the recipe would probably benefit from more chocolate chips.
While these cookies have been very warmly received both times that I've made them, I don't see the appeal of this recipe. The taste is flat. The texture is just odd. I had some leftover cookies and I stuck them in a Ziploc bag so I could stash them in the freezer for a future occasion when I need chocolate cookie crumbs; I gently kneaded the bag with my hands and the cookies just fell apart. But I'm looking forward to the time when I get to use the crumbs for a delicious chocolate cookie crust!
Recipe: "Cream Cheese Chocolate Snacking Cookies" from Baked Elements: Our 10 Favorite Ingredients, by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Recipe available here at Baked Sunday Mornings.
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The cookie tastes like straight chocolate, and while it was tasty, I thought the flavor was one note and not that interesting. I found myself wishing that these were mint chocolate chip cookies instead (fortunately, Baked Elements has a recipe for Chewy Chocolate Mint Cookies!). The chocolate chips add a lot of interest and if anything, I think the recipe would probably benefit from more chocolate chips.
While these cookies have been very warmly received both times that I've made them, I don't see the appeal of this recipe. The taste is flat. The texture is just odd. I had some leftover cookies and I stuck them in a Ziploc bag so I could stash them in the freezer for a future occasion when I need chocolate cookie crumbs; I gently kneaded the bag with my hands and the cookies just fell apart. But I'm looking forward to the time when I get to use the crumbs for a delicious chocolate cookie crust!
Recipe: "Cream Cheese Chocolate Snacking Cookies" from Baked Elements: Our 10 Favorite Ingredients, by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Recipe available here at Baked Sunday Mornings.
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