Week 8

This week I decided to make maraschino cherry chocolate chip cookies. This was something completely new to me as I have never tried to bake anything before with maraschino cherries. They turned out super delicious.

While I was making them My dough looked a little dry and crumbly and I was scared tat the cookies wouldn’t turn out well, while I’m still confused as to why my dough turned out like that (I followed all the measurements properly) the cookies ended up working out anyway.

What I would change the next time I make these:

• I would get actual red food dye so I can dye the batter –> when I went to the store they didn’t have any red food colouring left so I tried using this red piping gel however it wasn’t pigmented enough and so the dough didn’t get very pink/red
• I would flatten the cough balls out –> I had realized I forgot to flatten the cookie dough and so they ended up baking in ball form this means when I took them out they hadn’t expanded and were tiny little cookie balls
• I would add more maraschino cherries and less chocolate chips –> I wasn’t sure how the taste of the cherries would work with the batter and if I would like it so I added less then the recipe said (big mistake) I wish I had added more. Now for the chocolate chips I think I added too many and so the chocolate almost over powers the rest of the cookie and makes me think of a regular chocolate chip cookie