Month: May 2008

So they’re now done. Yeay! I have a bunch of sugar cookies, a bunch of shortbread cookies, and a bunch of gingerbread cookies. The sugar and gingerbread cookies are frosted with icing. I thought it’d taste like those cookies from the Torrance Bakery, but they didn’t. They’re much better. 8D I still think Smerty’s sugar cookie taste much better than the sugar cookie I made, but I think each has their own merits. (I’m very much into the chewy cookie.)

For the frosting, I used egg whites, lemon juice, and powdered sugar. Instead of cracking an egg open, I bought a jar of pasteurized egg whites. This way no one at work will blame me for their food poisoning. Heh.

Baked a ton of sugar cookies. Baked a ton of gingerbread cookies. I’m not 100% sure if the cookies are supposed to taste the way they are right now. Tomorrow I’m going to be making the frosting for it. The type of cookie I made calls for royal frosting. I don’t think I’ll have time to make cupcakes tomorrow. Oh well. Maybe cupcakes will be next weekend.

Dinner was pork and chicken okonomiyaki. We used up all the pickled ginger in the house. The aonori was of questionable age… My mom wanted to put squid in the okonomiyaki, but I said that it’s made the way I like it, not the way she likes it. (Okonomiyaki means “cooked the way you like it”.)

Shortbread cookies came out well this time. I used a lot of flour when I was rolling out the dough. ^_^.v They still taste yummy, too.

So I decided to make shortbread cookies. Flour, powdered sugar, salt, butter, and vanilla. Sounds easy enough.

Batch 1. I only found expired flour. I figured I’ll give it a try anyways. I suck at rolling dough out. And it came out nasty. Yeah, expired flour is no good. :|

Batch 2. I prepared the dough yesterday, and I baked them today. Not quite there yet with the prefect cookie. While I was trying to roll the dough flat, it kept on breaking up and then sticking to the silicone mat (which I floured). Someone online said that I need to use A LOT of flour when I’m rolling out dough, and that I have to make sure that it doesn’t get too warm otherwise it’ll get sticky. :\ I ended up patting them into roundish cookies with my hands instead. They taste better than the first batch of cookies. I’ll try again over the weekend. Batch 2 will go to my coworkers. The good cookies (hopefully in batch 3) will go to my friends.