Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Sugar Ain't Always Sweet

Last weekend was another at-home baking experiment; a vanilla sugar cookie mix from Williams-Sonoma.

As usual, it called for your typical ingredients, but after all the mixing, it said to roll the dough into a log shape and keep it in the fridge for at least three hours! At the time I was baking this, I didn't want to wait the three hours, so I skipped those steps altogether. Instead, I took golf ball-sized pieces of dough, rolled them into a ball and patted them on the baking sheet.

They emerged from the oven like this...

Eh, they were OK; not as sweet as I expected with the big bag of sugar in the kit. Adding frosting and sugar crystals turned them into this...

Mucho better. I'm not sure whether skipping the log rolling and refrigerating made any difference, but at about $10, I don't think I'd buy this kit again.