More failures and sugar cookies

posted by joeli under cookies

Before I started this blog, baking was a bit easier. If things came out bad, it was alright. My husband and I ate whatever it was and no one had to know about it. Now when this happens I either have to pony up and write about it or figure out something else to make and blog about. There were also no pictures to take so things were often eaten straight out of the oven. I'm still not quite used to taking photos and despite some earlier success I've been having trouble lately taking good photos. I am going to blame this on the fact that it is December and my little town in England is permanently gray. The other trouble is that, like so many others, my husband and I spent the past two weeks feeling very poorly. I made some sugar cookies though to try and cheer things up!

As mentioned I've been having trouble with the whole baking things and then writing about them. Here are some things which were made earlier this month but didn't get their own post:

At the beginning of the month I made an apple pie. I took a photo before it went in the oven:

It smelled so good though that we ate it as soon as it came out of the oven. It was delicious. The crust is just a basic crust (200g flour, 100g butter, dash of sugar) and the filling was just chopped apples with a bit of butter, sugar and cinnamon.

I also made éclairs. These came out ugly but quite tasty. I tried and tried to get a good photo but simply could not for the life of me do it.

What they look like from the outside:

What they look like on the inside:

Seriously, they came out looking like funky burger buns:

To see how they should look and for the recipe go here.

I made also shortbread biscuits which I didn't like but my husband said they were ok. They came out...spotty. I have no idea why this is but they look diseased to me.

Finally, I made sugar cookies last night which came out okay. At first I thought they weren't that good because they were a bit crunchy (I think I may have over cooked them slightly). However, they seem to have benefited from a good night's rest. This morning they were soft and chewy, just the way I like my cookies. The recipe is here (the only change I made was to halve it).

Here they are all decorated with plain powdered sugar icing:

And then here they are all prettied up with red icing gel:

Things still to make this month: Iron Cupcake entry, Daring Bakers (and boy is it a doozy this month!), Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars, and hopefully some festive gingerbread men.

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