Now, with Chelle’s food adventure that she’s been on, I’ve been exploring ways to make treats that she can enjoy. We all remember the brownies that I recently tried that weren’t a great hit, but I had high hopes with this one. I made the dough, and it looked really sticky. I put together two cookies, and it was really hard to keep them together, and I couldn’t really do anything with it except get it all over my hands. So I thought, I know what to do! And decided to mix up the recipe myself. I added about a half a cup of coconut flour, and about a quarter cup of oil, and mixed it up, and it looked a little better, I thought. I rolled the dough into balls, and then cooked them. When I pulled them out of the oven, they looked really good, and I was actually really excited to try them. So, I put half a cookie in my mouth, and...HOLY COW it was a moisture-sucker! Every single bit of moisture in my mouth was sucked dry; it was REALLY hard to eat the cookie. I tried a piece of the regular cookie, without my additions (because I still baked the two I got out) and wouldn’t you know, besides it being the crumbliest thing ever in the world, it was pretty good. Maybe I should have kept it the way it was, but I couldn’t get the cookie to work! But now, my lesson is learned. Don’t try to fix a recipe because it doesn’t look the way you think it will. Here’s a pic of the cookie:
So now, I know how it works, and know how to make it better, and know well enough that if someone has made the recipe, maybe I should try theirs before I pretend I know better.
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