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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Hungry Jenny Faux Pas: Pearly There Coconut Cookies

*sigh*

It happened again. Tried to bake one thing, and it came out as something else.

So what happened this time?

These were meant to be Soft Pear and Coconut Cookies.

Well, they came out as So-Soft-They-Almost-Break, Banana Coconut Cookies.

Eh?

Ok, I should point out that I intended these to be healthy - as in no butter, no sugar, no flour and no egg. Should have smelt trouble from that thought alone, I suppose.

Now, banana is a common egg substitute but often overpowers other ingredients in baked goods. So my logic to counteract this was to use a bit less banana, and er, a bit of oil to compensate. Clearly, this wasn't enough of a binder anyway because the cookies just set in the most pathetic way possible - they crumble at the sight of a hand reaching out to them.

The other issue I had was with the pear - well, to be honest, I didn't know I had an issue with it until the cookies came out tasting nothing like pear at all.  I had used overripe pears - ones I'd bought a week ago and left in a paper bag and everything to get them mushy-ripe - so figured they'd be super sweet and pear-like. But no, that damn bit of banana simply Took Over.

On the plus side, they did taste like coconut. So half a success at least?

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