Musings & more….
These cookies are featured in SiftingRealities Episode Four: NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE (more info in post below). They are super easy. No mixmaster needed. Just mix everything in the pot that you use to melt the butter.
Melt the butter, remove pan from heat, and mix all the ingredients straight into the pot by hand – easy!
Batter. Mixed? Check!
Fresh from the oven (note the parchment paper covered cookie sheet). These are soft, chewy cookies – YUM!
As seen in SiftingRealities: Episode Three: ZOMBIE IN THE GARDEN (see post below for more info) Belinda, not knowing what to do with Annie once she has rescued her from the back yard, defaults to her comfort zone: baking, specifically, she bakes gingerbread cookies. Here is the recipe I (therefore she) uses:
The dough (ready to be plastic wrapped and chilled) and a traditionally shaped (not the one I used for the episode) gingerbread man cookie cutter:
Naked gingerbread people cooling and getting ready for decoration:
Decorated cookies (still from Sifting Realities, Ep. 3):
**Note: it took an entire bottle of red food colouring (and a couple of drops of blue) to make the icing “blood” THAT red. The yellow noose (middle top) is made out of string licorice. The cookies on the right are decorated with the more “traditional” look I usually use.
These cookies are “soft” gingerbread and super tasty… the crew eyed them all day while we were shooting and eagerly gobbled them up after we’d wrapped. There was some disbelief that they were whole wheat, which I take as a compliment to the cookies. Eliza, who plays Annie, preferred the licorice “guts”, of course.
These are the cookies featured in SiftingRealities: Episode Two: GUN IN MY TOILET (more info can be found in the previous post). In the episode, Rich thinks Belinda is presenting the cookies as a peace offering of sorts, but ends up just stealing her plate of comfort food. The macaroons in the episode are sans ground almonds.
Above: egg whites (4 in this case as I am doubling the recipe), medium unsweetened coconut, ground almonds, sugar and pure vanilla.
Whip eggs and vanilla until soft peaks form, which look something like above.
Still beating eggs, slowly add the sugar and then continue to beat until (fairly) stiff, glossy peaks form (as shown above). Some times this magic just doesn’t happen, make the cookies anyway, they won’t be pretty, but they’ll still be tasty!
Fold in the coconut and ground almonds, until just mixed.
Drop rounds tablespoons approx. 2 inches apart on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake.
And… enjoy!
In lieu of the 2nd Baking with the Director episode (which we decided to not shoot so we could launch episode 2 of SiftingRealities) here is the recipe for the cookies that are featured in episode one: MAN IN MY BED (more details in previous post). Of ALL the cookies I bake these are my absolute favourite. This is my go to recipe, for every occasion (except maybe Christmas):
The finished cookies look something like this:
And the taste? Like sex for your taste buds… at least according to Lise in SiftingRealities.