And another post!
This one should be short and sweet.
And very cute.
Wanna know why?
Because it's TURTLES!
Seriously, who doesn't love turtles?!
These are called 'icebox cookies', I don't know why, maybe it's because there's a freakish amount of chilling involved when making them.
Because I'm lazy, and I wasn't originally going to make this into a post, I don't have photos of my baking process.
'Black magic' is usually accepted as my baking technique.
What I do have, is a link to the original website, so here it is:
Their cookies are far tidier, cuter, and better lit than mine, so head there and check out their step-by-step cooking guide.
I seldom have time to fancy-schmnacy my photos, I know I'm procrastinating, but there's a limit.
All I can really offer here is a little guide on what I did differently, so here goes.
1. Instead of using matcha powder, which I have no idea how to procure, I simply added about a teaspoon of cocoa powder and some green food colouring, to roughly the same effect. I'd also add just a dash of milk to the greeny batch too, as mine got rather dry.
2. I found it useful to roll both dough logs out to the same length, and then flatten the green one. Just makes it easier.
Gimpy ones go to family members, usually the ones you like least.
3. I'd wash the inside of the green dough with a little milk, just to help it stick to the plain dough.
4. The recipe calls for something called 'black nonpareils', I couldn't be bothered finding them, so I just used extra chocolate to dot the eyes.
This little dude almost looks surprised, 'You're sticking me WHERE?!'
5. You might notice the heads and limbs on mine are rather a lot bigger than the originals, I didn't quite realise this at the time, and so I ran out of plain dough. If you prefer your turtles with bigger extremeties, make some extra plain dough for them.
6. I didn't have a teeny cookie cutter or a straw, but I found that the inside of an icing bag coupler of about the right size worked pretty well for the heads. For the limbs, I'm pretty sure you could just mould pieces with your fingers to about the right shape.
Chubby little turtles obviously can't reach the sea before being eaten.
These cookies weren't actually all that hard, and were a big hit.
Because obviously tasty + cute = success
Like little turtle-y soldiers, lining up to meet their fate.
So, turtle cookies = awesomeness, and a few well spent hours.
Procrasti-baker out.
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