Coming Home to a Plate of Berry Cookies

Excelsior!

After a long battle in the Mists, what's better than coming home to a nice plate of cookies? Not much, statistically speaking...

A personal favourite are the berry cookies, the really simple ones, Strawberry Cookies, Blueberry Cookies, and Blackberry Cookies.

While the traditional way of doing these cookies is to make a jam of your berries and top them with that, I just love fresh fruit. Sometimes when I'm back in Metrica Province, I'll pick some blueberries, while I often find strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries on my travels, and my ears are they ever a refreshing way to top a simple cookie!

Here's how I made them:

First, we need a cookie dough, a simple sugar cookie dough will do:

Ball of Cookie Dough

- 1 Egg per
- 1 stick of Butter per
- 0.9 cups of Flour
- 0.4 cups of Sugar
- baking soda in a reasonable quantity scaled to the above


First setup your wet and dry ingredients, and leave your egg to the side. Flour and baking soda in one bowl, mixed to a nice even distribution. In the other bowl, your butter and sugar.

If you are having trouble measuring the quantities, just think roughly a cup and roughly half, but not quite.

Mix the butter and sugar until it forms a grainy, yet creamy, consistency. Sugar may be wet, but hydrophilic things don't dissolve in hydrophobic things, so expect it to stay grainy no matter how much you mix. Statistically speaking, you can blame the Inquest if it doesn't stay grainy.

Mix in your eggs, using one per scale of butter and sugar. Its the ratio of butter to sugar to flour that really matters, eggs you can be more flexible with.

Now add dry ingredients to wet bowl, mix till you can't, then work it out with your hands.

The Cookies:

Shape dough into balls, about what would fit into an Asura's hand size wise, and place evenly spaced on cookie sheet.

Press down doughballs with a finger, or a knuckle in a glove if you are a Charr. Fur can be nice, just not in food.

Bake at 463.15 K (190C or 375 F, for my human readers) for roughly 9 minutes, +/- 1 to account for local climate.

On taking the cookies out, use your finger or gloved knuckle to press down again in the center, to ensure that the dimple remains. Don't be afraid of the heat, you want it still hot when you do this, as once its cooled, its too late, and you'll have to start over again.

Instead of a jam, I used a thickened syrup made of my fresh fruits, and since I lost the remainder of my strawberries to the toxic spores in Kessex, I've subbed in raspberries. Any fruit with a same fruit syrup or jam will work, and traditionally it would just be a jam or jelly of the fruit anyways.

See my Tribute to Eevee post for the syrups I used.


Blackberry Cookies:

- Ball of Cookie Dough (you should have already finished the dough into the cookies)

- Blackberry (jam or syrup, and fruit)






Strawberry Cookies:

- Ball of Cookie.. plate of finished cookies
- Strawberries Raspberries prepped








Blueberry Cookies

- Cookies from earlier
- Blueberries, prepped




For each of the above, simply use a dispenser to put just enough syrup/jam/jelly to mostly fill the dimple (or completely if you are from the College of Statics), and add a piece of fresh fruit to the centre (or not)


Serve on a nice plate for all your friends to enjoy! They'll definitely thank you after coming back from a hard fought battle to a plate of fresh fruit cookies

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