Do you follow me on twitter? If you don't, you should (twitter.com/hteac)! If you do, you saw my tweet earlier about my Valentine's Day cookies and my promise of an interesting story. "Interesting" isn't exactly the right word. "Heart-breaking" would be more appropriate (as well as ironic, seeing as how these are Valentine's Day cookies)! I spent somewhere around 4 hours making these beautiful cookies from start to finish yesterday. I took a few to work this morning, but I left the prettiest at home so I could get a good picture when I had time to blog. While I was at work I got a text from my mom. The text read, "I guess I don't need to tell you what happened to your cookies. WRINKLES happened to your cookies. Sorry." Wrinkles is our dog. HE ATE MY MOTHER FLIPPIN COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!! Sure, I left them on the table, covered in THREE SHEETS of plastic wrap. But he's a beagle, and his nose could smell the tiniest crumb a mile away! My text back to my mom read, "Kill him." :(When I got home, there was a container on the stove that held the few cookies he apparently couldn't fit into his drooling, disgusting, gluttonous mouth. Some of them were worthy enough for a photo, but none of them were worthy of eating. Who knows if any of his slimy, dripping spit got onto any of them. They had to go in the trash. But I'll have you know, the uncontaminated cookies I ate yesterday were DELICIOUS! Thank you to Amanda for making them on her blog and giving me the idea! And big ups to Smitten Kitchen's mom for being the original holder of this recipe! ;)
See this post for Royal Icing recipe.Brownie Roll-Out Cookies
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Whisk dry flour, salt and baking powder in bowl and set aside. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa in mixer. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour.
Roll out cookie dough on floured counter. (I rolled mine between two sheets of plastic wrap. It was buttery enough that it didn't need any flour to keep it from sticking.) Cut into desired shapes, brushing extra deposits of flour off the top. Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for 1/8-inch thick cookies, the latter for 1/4-inch cookies) until the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed. (My cookies were 1/4-inch thick and they only needed 9 minutes in the oven.)
Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
31 comments:
Aw no I'm so sorry to hear about your doggy disastor! I still think they look beautiful, shame about not being able to eat them :(
You're dog is awesome.
At least you know they went to a good place :D
Oh... that dog... Another good reason why I don't have one. It would only take one of those "accidents" for me to fall out of love with a dog. Reeeal quick. :)
But aren't these cookies good?! And I love your super sweet decorating. It's adorbs.
P.S. The Valentine edition of your blog is great too. I love the hearts on the sidebar and such.
Love the new blog layout :) And sad face for the cookies...was Wrinkles okay, though? No tummy ache?
i must admit...that's the good thing about an english bulldog, not much of a smeller, and they don't jump! sad that you missed out on the yummies!
It would be nice if my mom knew how to text..haha.
Those cookies look so pretty! It can be so hard to find a good roll out cookie recipe.
This in my first visit to your blog! I think your dog is honestly lucky to be alive! Seriously!!!!
My cat once pulled an entire cooling rack of cupcakes on the floor.. He was in trouble for a few days! But these look really good! Glad they came out great and at least it wasn't the whole batch!
Oooh the dog eating the goodies, happens to the best of us. multiple times. Totally sucks though! Look good, now I just need to find all my heart cookie cutters!
Your cookies are beautiful, and I'm glad you got to eat some before they were devoured! I was planning on making mini angel food cakes for my vday party but I'm thinking I might make these instead...
Oh no! Silly doggy (I hope he was OK) - the cookies are beautiful!
Oh man that's a bummer :( I will never forget I had a dog as a kid who ate my birthday cake one year...that sucked! Needless-to-say, all my friends weren't to happy about it either LOL But your cookies were adorable!!
These look delicious! I am a huge dog lover but man oh man I might have to kill him! At least you got to try them though!
awe beagles! mine would have done the same!
those look awesome!
I love the new layout!
Gotta luv doggies! And gotta love these cookies - they look awesome!
Aren't chocolate bad for doggies? Hope he's ok.
I made these cookies last night - delicious! What frosting recipe did you use? I made royal frosting but didn't turn out like yours...
You did such a cute job on these and I bet they were tasty!!!
These are really cute! I cannot imagine baking another cookie this week though, as yesterday I spent 5 hours baking waaaay too many cookies for a charity drive at Husband´s workplace. Oh, how I love brownies..and cookies. Someday, when the thought of rolling dough is appealling again, I´ll definitely try these! Thanks for sharing.
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Oh, that's absolutely tragic!
But on the bright side, lesson learned. No matter how much plastic wrap you use, it won't save cookies from hungry beagles.
How sweet these are! I love that you used a chocolate cut-out recipe instead of the ol' vanilla ones.
Bad doggie!
Oh, snap! I would have flipped out. That's just another reason to give my babygirl as to why I don't want a dog. All that work gone. They were so pretty, too!
Happy V-day!
~ingrid
Hey I made these today! Was your dough SUPER dry? Mine was, but I blame myself haha. I am anxious to decorate these, yours came out really cute. Sorry about your dog, my Westie was definitely eyeing up the dough as I was rolling them out! Thanks for sharing :)
My dog totally did the same thing! Just with freshly baked bread...oh yeah I was mad. Real mad.
Anyway they look great and so does this new layout of your blog!
frickin' dog! If he got a stomach ache it serves him right! Notice my lack of sympathy? b/t 4 cats and 4 dogs, this happens at our house ALOT! Sadly I've yet to win the battle.
I never include in my recipes "pinch of cat hair", but inevitably it ALWAYS ends up in there!
i made these today! but i wasnt at all pleased with the texture of them :( i thought they would actually be like brownies in cookie form. is that what they were supposed to be? because if they were, boy i screwed up.
Arshia, they are slightly chewy like a brownie. Not crisp like a regular roll-out sugar cookie. But I wouldn't say it tastes like a brownie in cookie form. Sorry if the name was misleading.
Aww! Too bad what happened with Wrinkles! Was he ok, though? And anyhow, you managed to get some great pictures, because those look amazingly delicious!
these were absolutely amazing! i made them with bailey's cream frosting for st. patick's day and everyone wished there were more to go around. check it out on my blog: http://thisiswhyktcishot.blogspot.com/
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