#shortbread tutorial

[love-takes-work]

Teabag Cookies

Amethyst routinely eats used teabags. This is not good for humans, but if you wanna be like her, how about making your own edible teabags (well, as chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies)? Read on. . . .

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Ingredients:

1 teaspoon tea, any flavor you like

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

½ cup fine granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ teaspoon salt

6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate pieces (to be melted)

Directions:

Use a stand mixer or hand mixer to whip the butter on medium speed until it is fluffy; it will take about 3 minutes. You can use a spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl.

In a little dish, stir together the tea and sugar. (Variation idea: If you want to make different flavors with different tea, you can half the ingredients and make separate batches.)

Whip the sugar mixture into the butter mixture, and once it's fully incorporated, add the vanilla extract.

Then add in the flour and salt. You will want to turn off the mixer, fold it in with the spatula a bit, and then use a low speed to complete mixing it in. Don't overmix; you want this to be evenly mixed together but no more.

Flatten the dough into a disc. Wrap it up in plastic wrap or a reusable refrigerator wrap, and chill it in the fridge for 1 hour or more.

Once the chilling is complete, prepare a clean floured surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin to about half a centimeter/a quarter of an inch. Try to get it into a nice rectangle shape.

Using a nice sharp knife that makes clean cuts (or a pizza cutter), cut into nice little rectangles.

Use a spatula to lift the rectangles onto baking sheets lined with baking parchment. Space them with about a centimeter between them.

Then use the knife to chop two ends off each rectangle so they will be shaped like teabags.

Use a straw to punch a nice hole in each--not too close to the top. Make sure each hole goes all the way through.

Chill the cookies in the refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes. This will help them retain their shape and not let the hole close up too quickly; they will start to harden as they cook in the oven before the butter in them melts if they start cold.

While waiting for the cookies to chill, you can preheat the oven to 340º F / 170º C. When ready to bake, use the middle rack only (do two baking batches). Bake the cookies for 13 to 15 minutes and do not let them get brown--they should remain tan.

Cool on wire racks. Once the cookies are totally cooled, you can dip them. Use a double boiler to melt your chocolate pieces, stirring with a spatula to help combine lumps.

Dip the cookies halfway in to coat them with chocolate, and then put them back on their parchment to settle. You should chill the cookies again to help the chocolate solidify.

Now, for the strings (which really make the effect!), if you are already a tea-drinker you can save up tea strings and tags from other teabags you've used. This is especially cool if you are varying the flavors of the tea in the cookies and you can include matching tags. . . .

But if you don't drink tea, don't want to wait to collect tea strings, or just want to make your own, you can use dental floss for the strings and folded-over address labels as tags.

If you are serving these at a little tea party or at a gathering, you can always decorate these tags with names, symbols, stickers, or messages!

When you're ready to put it all together, just loop each string through the cookie holes and tie them.

It's pretty much required that you serve them on adorable dishware with dainty cups, right? They are perfect for dunking in tea!

Or you could just unceremoniously chomp them down, like a certain Gem we know!

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[sew-much-to-do]

DIY Halloween Spider Web Cookies

Making spider web patterns in icing is a really effective way to decorate cookies and cakes for Halloween and they're actually very easy to do, children will love making these too! Here is a recipe for making some simple shortbread biscuits, flavoured with cinnamon and spices as well as a tutorial on making the iced pattern…

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[jomiddlemarch]

The shapes a bright container can contain!

VII. It was a balancing act, looking after Hermione. On the one hand, he was well-aware she was an intelligent and competent adult witch, capable of making her own decisions, entitled to plenty of time and space to herself.

On the other hand, she rarely made decisions with her own best interest as the chief concern, she had never learned how to use leisure time for actual leisure or leisurely activities that weren’t productive and/or virtuous, and she had an isolative streak that made her choice of familiar understandable. There was only so much one could do for her and it was especially challenging for Draco to be the one doing.

However, he’d told her he’d look after her and no matter what anyone thought, he did not break promises or fail to fulfil the terms of an agreement.

Which meant that on a chilly Sunday morning, when he found her at the kitchen table with a towering stack of essays in front of her and another at her feet instead of tucked up in bed or lolling on the sofa with tea, pastries, and a chunky Muggle paperback, he didn’t hesitate.

“Accio Professor Granger’s essays,” he said, pitching his voice loud enough to call the parchment to him without startling her unduly.

“What do you think you’re doing?” she said. She was seated, so she could put her hands on her hips but the gesture was quite present in her tone. It was impressive. She was undoubtedly not startled in the slightest.

“Grading your fifth and, unless I’m mistaken, seventh year Arithmancy class mid-term exams. I don’t even know why you have a fifth year class, you were only supposed to be teaching that tutorial but I imagine Minerva did her version of begging with all the shortbread and her plaid robe,” he said. Hermione nodded. “You must have a rubric—”

“I must?”

“You’re Hermione Granger, you wouldn’t grade without a rubric,” he said.

“Did Neville tell you that?” she asked.

“Give me some credit. I didn’t need him to tell me,” Draco said. 

“So he did,” Hermione replied.

“Scorpius too. The students appreciate it, although the Slytherins and Gryffindors both feel the rubrics are overly detailed,” he said.

“I was frustrated by how arbitrary our educational experience was,” she said.

“It didn’t help how they all played favorites,” Draco said. “McGonagall obviously, but Snape was a terror.”

“He’d had a lot to answer for, if he hadn’t also been a double-agent Dumbledore was willing to manipulate within an inch of his life after failing him abysmally when he was a student himself,” Hermione said. “It doesn’t bear thinking about, how he treated Neville.”

“Agreed. Though you seem to be following in his footsteps when it comes to the length of your assignments. Merlin’s manky knickers, these essays are long,” Draco said.

“Manky knickers?” 

“Scorpius told me that was au courant, so to speak, but I admit, it may sound more appropriate from a fourteen year old,” Draco smiled.

“I don’t tell them they’ve got to give me twelve feet. I just say that they may,” Hermione said.

“They have done, most of them it would seem,” he said. “You’ll run yourself into the ground grading these—”

“I’m fine,” she said.

“You’re not and you won’t. I’ll see to them,” he said. He was hoping his expression and tone would convey a respectful but conclusive end-of-discussion, but Hermione was used to being the one ending discussions and looked at him skeptically. Her color was better though—it seemed she found arguing with him invigorating.

“How will you get through them? You don’t even know what they’re about,” she said.

“I’ll run a few charms, apply the rubric, leave a few pithy Professor Granger-esque comments,” he said. “I’m thinking along the lines of Extremely detailed, good use of references, tickety-boo.”

“I have never and would never write Tickety-boo on a student’s essay,” she said. “In a fit of whimsy, I might say it was Excalibur, a little pun on excellence and caliber—”

“I got it,” he said. “It’s painful. A Weasley wouldn’t even make a pun that gruesome. Maybe you should start writing tickety-boo.”

“It seems I’m not writing anything at the moment,” she said. “I’m not sure what to do with myself in the meantime.”

“I am,” Draco said, fishing a small bundle from his vest pocket, setting it an arm’s length from Hermione on the table, and flicking his wand in its direction. “Engorgio liborum.”

“Cleopatra’s alembic,” Hermione breathed. Draco grinned. He’d been hoping for awed surprise as her response. “What did you do?”

“Rather, the salient question is what have I procured for you?” he said. “Books. An excessive number, none of them relevant to your work. Leisure reading, it’s called.”

“There’s so many,” she said softly.

“Yes. I started with classics, the entire collection of Austen’s works, Gaskill’s Wives and Daughters, and then I added some modern choices—you needn’t feel any excessive guilt, all of those,” he said, pointing to one stack of paperbacks, “are written by an English professor at a university in New York and those over there are by a former clerk to a US Supreme Court judge. You can Transfigure the covers if you prefer, it’s entirely your business what you read.”

“They’re all romances,” she said. 

“You indicated they’re a guilty pleasure, though I don’t think you ought to feel guilty about them or any other pleasure. I paid attention,” he said. Before she could start in on him for his advocacy of hedonism, especially as it pertained to her and him, he spoke again. “I did add in Sayers’ Gaudy Night, because if you haven’t read it, you must, it was written for you, and I can’t take the credit for knowing that. Pansy recommended it—”

“Pansy Parkinson?”

“Pansy Parkinson Finch-Fletchley,” Draco said. “She spends more of her time passing as an aristo Muggle than being a proper witch, but her family didn’t come out well on the other side of things. She’s an antiques dealer, they have a son who bears an unfortunate resemblance to a red-billed stork they’ve saddled with the name Peregrine and he’s been sent to some place called Harriot or Herring instead of Wizarding school. Wouldn’t even consider Beauxbatons.”

“Harrow. They sent him to Harrow. You may have broken me with this,” Hermione said, laughing helplessly. “The books and Pansy and Peregrine-the-stork—”

“Crane might be more apt, come to think of it,” Draco said.

“Broken, I said,” she gasped.

“Hardly,” he said. “Not how you’re made.”

“You’re overestimating me,” she said, speaking in her normal tone again.

“No,” he said. “I know you better than you think. There’s a difference. Now you ought to let me get to work grading these essays. The sofa and your novels await.”

Two hours later, she set a steaming mug of tea beside his left hand and briefly squeezed his hunched shoulder. If he hadn’t been half-dazed from reading the essays, he would have had a more pronounced response to her touch, the first time he could recall her initiating physical contact between them. However, the rambling lengths of parchment had nearly done him in.

“You do this every week? These are excruciating,” he said. 

“Yes, but they’re learning. We were excruciating back then too. It wasn’t just being a double-agent under a crushing load of guilt and stocking the infirmary’s potions for Dumbledore to use that budget for the Order of the Phoenix that made Snape so exhausted,” she said. 

“I would have said snarky,” Draco replied. “Biting. Derisive. And he was my Head of House and obviously favored us.”

“He did have a mouth on him, didn’t he?” she said nostalgically. “And when he was really put out, you could hear the Manchester in him. Drink the tea. I added a lot of honey.”

“For strength?” Draco asked. “Once more unto the breach and all that?”

“Because you like it sweet,” she said. “You can tell Pansy she was right. I’m loving Gaudy Night.”

“I thought you’d start with Austen,” he said.

“Those are old friends. I thought I’d try something new,” she said.

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[kineats]

recipes for spix’s macaw or dingo therians? 🪶

You got it! ^_^ First I'll do fruit, seeds, and nuts, with maybe some cactus for funsies, for the macaw; then I'll do small game and poultry and pork, with some fruit and veg, for the dingo~

Spix's Macaw Recipes:

Nutty Pumpkin Oatmeal

Pistachio Spread

Kanuchi (Nut Soup)

Breakfast Bowls

Ajo Blanco (Different Nut Soup)

Pear and Walnut Salad

Fruit, Seed, and Nut Bars

Cactus Paddle Tutorial and Recipes

Halva with Fruit and Nuts

Cactus Casserole

Pesto alla Trapanese

Millet, Carrot, and Spinach Cakes

More Millet Recipes (Both Sweet and Savory!)

Hickory Nut Shortbread

Birch Bark Flour and Cookies! (Surprisingly tasty~!)

Dingo Recipes:

Sorrel & Slow Cooked Spring Chicken

Grilled Chicken with Daylily Buds and Mulberry Sauce

Whole Grilled Mediterranean Chicken

Stewed Chicken

Hearty Fall Chicken Stew

Pulled Pork

Wild Boar and Mushroom Stew

Wild Hog BBQ

Texas "Lizard Eggs" (Not actual lizard eggs)

Butterflied Quail with Orange Glaze

Shaved Asparagus "Grass" Salad

Whole Baked Fish

A TON of Rabbit Recipes

Rabbit, Hare, and Squirrel Recipes

A Ton of Forage Recipes~

Hope this helps!!!

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[helenfletcher]

These Easy Decorated Shortbread Cookies came about when I was asked to appear on a TV program to decorate Easter cookies. Many years ago when I had my bakery, decorated cookies were all the rage. The trouble was, I have limited talent in this area so came up with the Painted Cookies technique. And easy it is! I used two techniques - the first is painted cookies, either solid colors or the very simple swirly, marbelized ones. The second is even easier since you simply cover the unbaked cookie with colored sugar and bake. That's it. Easy enough for the kids to help and maybe more fun than coloring Easter eggs. For the ins and outs and the easiest way to roll out the cookie dough see Cut Out Cookies Using The Wax Paper Technique. What Makes This Recipe so Intriguing These easy shortbread cookies require only 3 ingredients. The glaze only 2. They are incredibly easy to make and decorate. Packed with flavor under estimates how incredible they are. The butter gives them a rich flavor, especially if you use European type butter. These are definitely show stoppers that will have your family and friends think you bought them at a high end bakery. Recipe Ingredients Shortbread Cookies FRONT ROW: Unsalted European Butter BACK ROW: All-purpose flour, granulated sugar Lemon Glaze LEFT: Lemon Juice RIGHT: Powdered sugar Unsalted European butter such as Kerry Gold or Plugra among other brands gives these cookies a deeper flavor that American butter. However, it is important to use unsalted butter here for maximum taste. Freshly squeezed lemon juice is a must for the glaze. You can squeeze it a day or two ahead and refrigerate it just don't take a shortcut and use bottled lemon juice. I use all lemon juice for a punch of flavor. However, it can be watered down to be less aggressive. It can also be omitted completely and flavored with vanilla, almond or any other extract as your taste dictates. Be sure to see the recipe card below for the exact ingredients and instructions. Step by Step Instructions Step 1. Cut the cold butter into pieces and place over the flour in the processor bowl. Step 2. Process until the butter is indistinguishable. Step 3. Add the sugar to the processor. Step 4. Process until it comes together in large pieces. It most likely will not form a ball, that's fine. Step 5. Gather the dough and knead it together. Flatten it into a round. Step 6. Divide the dough in half and roll one half between wax paper to about 1/4 to 1/3" thick. Step 7. Cut the cookies out, keeping the cutters as close together as possible. Place the cookies, still on the wax paper on a tray and freeze until hard. When frozen, simply push them out or use a pancake turner to lift them off. Freezing the cookies makes it easy to remove them without the cookies losing their shape and with perfectly clean edges. Step 8. Place the frozen cookies on a cookie sheet and keep them frozen until baking. Decorating the Cookies Step 9. Be sure to use gel colors instead of the liquid ones as they usually require a lot more to achieve the same colors as the gel. Step 10. The lemon juice and powdered sugar are mixed. Step 11. Dots of various colors are spaced out on top of the glaze. This collage shows the gel color package, dots of different colors on top of the glaze and the colors swirled int the glaze. Step 12. With a bamboo skewer or toothpick, swirl the colors together. Don't over swirl or the colors will be come murkey after just a few cookies. No two cookies will look alike. Additional color can be added at anytime. For a complete tutorial, see Painted Cookies. Step 13. Dip the top of the cookie into the glaze just deep enough to coat it. Step 14. Let the excess glaze drip back into the bowl. If there is still too much glaze on the cookie, very lightly wipe it against the top of the bowl. Step 15. The finished cookie glazed. Step 16. This is the second and easiest way to decorate a cookie.

Before baking, heavily sprinkle the cookie with colored sugar crystals. Gently pat them in. For the eye of the duck, I used a mini chocolate chip. Place it on the duck before adding the sprinkles. Bake as called for. Recipe FAQS Can another cookie be used? Sure. Sugar or butter cookies are perfect to decorate as long as they hold their shape when baked. Do you need to "glue" sprinkles on cookies before baking? For the cookies above no. Just heavily sprinkle them, pat them very gently onto the cookie and bake. They stick right on. Does a powdered sugar glaze dry hard? Yes but it might take a day or so depending upon the weather. While it might appear dry on the top, it can still be wet underneath. After the glaze has dried, the cookies an be stacked in an airtight container for a week or more. They also ship well. Expert Tips The cookies can be cut out and frozen for months before baking. They can also be baked and held, unpainted in an airtight container for days before decorating. Unsalted European style butter has a higher fat content than American butter and as such, imparts a deeper butter flavor into the cookies. I use this butter whenever I made a butter heavy cookie. Wax paper and freezing the cookies are key to a cookie with clean edges that won't lose their shape. Just cut out the cookies, leave them on the wax paper, place them on a cookie sheet and freeze until hard. Then just pop them out or remove them with a pancake turner and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. Lemon juice, water or liqueur makes a somewhat harder glaze than does milk. Always us gel colors to impart brighter colors and reduce the amount of liquid added to the glaze. It's necessary to use more liquid coloring to obtain the same bright colors than it is to use gel colors. When swirling the colors for the painted cookies, start with 3 different colors and do not swirl too much in the beginning. Additional colors can be added as you go along. However, at some point, the glaze will become murky looking. At that point start over. The glaze can be broken down into smaller bowls to use when it is no longer useable. Just cover them with wet towels so they don't skin over. We did this at the bakery when we had hundreds of cookies to glaze. Be sure to let the painted cookies dry completely before storing them. The tops may appear dry but they can still be wet underneath. The glaze will usually wrinkle up when picked up and shaken a little if wet underneath. If you have children or grandchildren around let them help. This is a great family project. Just be ready for a bit of a mess that is easily cleaned up. More Great Butter Cookies If you love these Easy Decorated Shortbread Cookies, It would be hugely helpful and so appreciated it if you would take a moment to leave a rating below. Thank you. Easy Decorated Shortbread Cookies I used two techniques - the first is painted cookies, either solid colors or the very simple swirly, marbelized ones. The second is even easier since you simply cover the unbaked cookie with colored sugar and bake. That's it. Easy Shortbread Cookies1 cup unsalted butter, European preferred (225 grams)2 1/4 cups all purpose flour (315 grams)1/2 cup granulated sugar (100 grams)Painted Cookie Glaze2 cups powdered sugar (260 grams)1/4 cup lemon juice or water1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract if not using lemon juice Easy Shortbread CookiesIf using a processor, butter needs to be cold. If using a mixer, butter needs to be softened. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.Processor MethodThe cold butter needs to be cut into small pieces. Add the flour to the bowl of a processor. Pulse several times to sift. Place the cold, cut up butter in a circle on top of the flour. Process until the butter is indistinguishable. Add the sugar and process until it comes together. It will not form a ball.It will take some time for the dough to come together.

Redistribute the dough in the processor several times to help it along. Using long pulses will help with the mixing. It will form large crumbs that should be poured onto the work surface and kneaded together.  Mixer MethodFor this method, the butter needs to be softened. Combine the butter with the sugar in the bowl of a mixer. Beat until light. Add the flour all at once and beat until it comes together to form a solid mass.Cutting the CookiesDivide the dough in half. Roll half of it between wax paper to a thickness of 1/4 to 1/3 inch. See the post on the Wax Paper Technique for the easiest way. Repeat for the second half. Cut the cookies into the desired shapes. Leaving them on the wax paper, place them in the freezer until hard. Pop them out or use a spatula to remove them to the parchment lined baking sheets. Freeze or refrigerateBake 12 to 15 minutes depending upon the thickness of the cookies until lightly browned. Cool completely before decorating. Painted Cookie TechniqueMake sure the glaze is colored in a bowl just large enough for the largest cookie and your fingers.  You do not want the glaze spread out into a large bowl.Divide the glaze into different bowls. Cover with a wet towel to prevent it from skinning over. Start a new bowl whenever the current one becomes too murky.Dots of color are added around the perimeter of the bowl and in the middle however you wish.  Swirl in a few colors and add more if desired. With a bamboo skewer or toothpick, swirl the colors around in a marbleized fashion.Holding a cookie upside down by the edges of your fingers, dip it into the glaze making sure the entire top is covered. Allow the glaze to drip back into the bowl.  It can drip to one side of the bowl to keep the paint undiluted as long as possible.  Place the cookie on parchment to dry which can take up to a day if it is humid.  After dipping some cookies, more or different colors may be added and swirled in to freshen the paint.  Dry the cookies completely, making sure they are not just dry to the touch and still wet underneath. After drying, drips down the sides can be scraped off with a sharp knife.  Store in an airtight tin with paper between the layers.  Sugared CookiesPrior to baking, heavily cover the cookies with colored sugar and lightly pat into place. Bake as above. The number of cookies will depend upon the cutters you use and the thickness of the cookies. There is always an abundance of photos to guide you in the post above. As always, I recommend using a scale for accuracy and consistency.  Flour, in particular, is difficult to measure by volume.  For my recipes, I use 140 grams per cup of unsifted  all-purpose, bread or whole wheat flour and 125 grams of cake flour. Others may use different weights so use whatever they suggest. ___________________________________________________________ The cookies can be cut out and frozen for months before baking. They can also be baked and held, unpainted in an airtight container for days before decorating. Unsalted European style butter has a higher fat content than American butter and as such, imparts a deeper butter flavor into the cookies. I use this butter whenever I made a butter heavy cookie. Wax paper and freezing the cookies are key to a cookie with clean edges that won't lose their shape. Just cut out the cookies, leave them on the wax paper, place them on a cookie sheet and freeze until hard. Then just pop them out or remove them with a pancake turner and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. Lemon juice, water or liqueur makes a somewhat harder glaze than does milk. Always us gel colors to impart brighter colors and reduce the amount of liquid added to the glaze. It's necessary to use more liquid coloring to obtain the same bright colors than it is to use gel colors. When swirling the colors for the painted cookies, start with 3 different colors and do not swirl too much in the beginning. Additional colors can be added as you go along. However, at some point, the glaze will become murky looking. At that point start over.

The glaze can be broken down into smaller bowls to use when it is no longer useable. Just cover them with wet towels so they don't skin over. We did this at the bakery when we had hundreds of cookies to glaze. Be sure to let the painted cookies dry completely before storing them. The tops may appear dry but they can still be wet underneath. The glaze will usually wrinkle up when picked up and shaken a little if wet underneath. If you have children or grandchildren around let them help. This is a great family project. Just be ready for a bit of a mess that is easily cleaned up.   CookiesAmericanDecorated Cookies,, Easy Shortbread Cookies,

#BLOG_INDEX #COOKIES #RECIPE_INDEX

[witchblocparis]

Pecan Coconut Shortbread Cookie in One Bowl Upgrade your baking skills with our easy-to-follow tutorial on creating a mouthwatering One-Bowl Pecan Coconut Shortbread Cookie. Get ready to savor the deliciousness.

#bakinglove #coconutsweetness #onebowlcookie #shortbreadcookie #cookiegram

[artemisbarnowl]

Watching Rachel makseys new vid and I am Deeply concerned by

-Christine McConnells method for shortbread (do all US recipes not cream butter first?)

-CMcC refering to spider leg parts using skeletal labels. Spiders don't have ANY bones, let alone a tibia????

- the general trend of tutorial videos NOT actually providing step by step instructions. (Rachel says she's just documenting her journey, which is fine, but so many videos are meant to be tutorials and are just.....vlogs

#this woman is a professional baker cake decorator thing why she not know shes NOT a professional in spiders???

[amserstudios-blog]

3 Ingredient Shortbread Cookies that actually taste bomb as hell!!

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[cakenerds]

Have a look at our newest cake tutorial - Atlantis cookies!

Let us know what you think, and as always don't forget to like and subscribe for more amazing videos!

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[tailsbeth]

So in these horrid times I'm looking to try and make everybody's life that little bit sweeter! I'll be posting baking tutorials on my Instagram stories (+ highlights) breaking it down step by step for all you first time bakers going a bit gaga staying home. If you have any requests, please message me! Happy to provide vegan and GF recipes when I can. ☺️

#coronavirus #covid19 #self isolation #baking #tutorials #shortbread #food #biscuits #sweet #recipe #tailsbeth

[dizzymaiden]

Rosemary Parmesan Shortbread

#food #dough #rosemary #herb #parmesan #shortbread #recipe #how to #tutorial #homemade #party #party food #cheese

[sew-much-to-do]

DIY Lavender Shortbread Cookies Dipped in Matcha

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[rosannapansino]

Yoda Cookies

Yields 3 dozen

The things you’ll need

Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/4 cup cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter at room temperature

2 egg yolks

1/4 cup cream

2 teaspoons peppermint extract

White, black and brown royal icing in decorating bags fitted with #1 tips

Equipment

Hand mixer with attachments

Large bowl

Liquid measuring cup

Rubber spatula

Whisk

Plastic wrap

Cookie sheet lined with parchment

Yoda cookie cutter

Small offset spatula

Rolling pin

Pastry brush

Let's get started!

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

In a liquid measuring cup, mix together egg yolks, cream and peppermint extract.

In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, cornstarch and salt until well combined.

Use a hand mixer to cut butter into the dry mixture until crumbly and well combined.

Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix until dough forms.

Divide the dough in half and plastic wrap it in disks. Refrigerate for one hour.

Roll out the dough to just thicker than 1/4 an inch and use a cookie cutter to cut out Yoda faces.

Place cookies onto a cookie sheet and freeze for 10 minutes.

Bake for 8 minutes and allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.

Time to decorate!

Use white, black, and brown royal icing to fill in the eyes.

TaDa! Dad's Yoda Cookies are ready to "eat or eat not, there is no 'try'!

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[raevenlywrites]

Can i buy your recipes then? Maybe if you make a little cookbook :)

They're just basic shortbread cookies, nothing special :P

This did inspire me to make a little decorating tutorial though, so hang tight for that!

#excite!

[holyfuckthisfishcandrive]

Professors and Shortbread

First, Previous (Chap. 18), Ao3

Word count: 2186

Warnings: smoking, swearing, bones (talked about)

Roman woke up to someone violently shaking him.

"Wake up," Remus hissed. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, asshole!"

"What is it?" Roman grumbled, trying to shake Remus' hand off. "Fuck, Remus, it's like three am! We have school tomorrow, you fucking dick."

"Roman, I just realized something! Stop hitting me, this is important!"

Roman groaned and finally sat up.

"What is so important that you have to wake me up at three am on a school night?"

"It's more like four am, but that's beside the point," Remus waved off. "I just realized that Professor Logic is really fucking stupid."

Roman blinked at him exasperatedly.

"Okay," he said after a moment. "Mind if I go back to sleep now?"

"No, this is important! When I called him Mr Logic he complained, saying that he didn't go to school for years to get called Mister. If that's true that would mean that he's actually a Professor!" Remus whisper yelled.

Roman glanced from one side to the other than back to Remus.

"Yeah?"

"There can't be that many Professors in this city right? Especially not that many young, male, tall ones!"

Finally, it dawned on Roman what Remus was saying.

"So... we can try to find out his civilian identity," he mumbled and a wide grin spread over Remus' face.

"Exactly!"

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Usually, Roman stuck around after rehearsal for a little while, chatted with the other members of the drama club or helped out with something while Remus goofed around with his friends in the club but on this Wednesday he and Remus grabbed their bags as soon as the bell rung and were the first ones out of the door.

They all but ran out all the way back home, almost getting hit by a taxi and earning a few looks and glares on the way.

The elevator ride was way too long in Roman's opinion.

They dropped their bags in their rooms,  Remus got the list he had created of all Professors whose addresses he could find in the phone book or on the internet and Roman put on his 'good kid' mask to ask Ma for a little money, pretending that it was just for him. She gave him a fifty-dollar bill. The money was for the subway and a quick lunch on the go and Roman was pretty sure that it was way more than they would need but better safe than sorry. He wasn't sure how much fast food would cost.

And just a few minutes after they had come home they were already on their way out again.

Most Professors lived downtown or at least near downtown so they first took a train downtown and went to a small Chinese place for lunch (which was a lot cheaper than Roman had expected).

Remus pulled out a map and they began marking down the addresses to see which route would be the best. Roman doubted they could check out all of them in one day but they would do their best  either way.

33 Professors was a lot for one city but Remus guessed it made sense since apparently here in downtown housing was cheap and the university was very close.

The first name on their list was Professor Jacobs.

They sauntered through the streets, using their map as a guide.

The house they ended up in front of was a trashy apartment building with at least five notes at the doorbell signs saying that the bells didn't work.

Roman pressed the Professors bell and turned to Remus.

"I'll do the talking, okay? Cause if we do find Logic I don't want you blurting out the actual we're here."

Remus rolled his eyes. "Fine, fine. Sorry, I'm honest."

He didn't really mean it, well aware of how many times he had gotten on trouble for blurting out the truth without thinking.

The door buzzed and the pushed it open.

"Who's there?" an old-sounding voice called and as he looked up through the stairs Remus spotted a man that looked like one of those fivehundred-year-old turtles trying to look down.

"We have the pizza you ordered," Roman called back.

"I didn't order any pizza!"

"Are you sure- Oh, my mistake, sir! I misread the name! I'm terribly sorry, have a nice day!" Roman did his typical Prince Charming smile even though the man couldn't see - It was simply part of the performance - and pushed Remus back out of the door. As soon as it fell shut the smile fell again.

"If that was Logic I'm eating Ma's hats," Remus said.

Roman snorted and Remus' grin widened at the real smile on his brother's face. They were too rare.

"Okay, who's next on the list?" Roman said and Remus crossed Professor Jacobs off.

The next door they rang at was opened by a young woman named Professor Jain who looked like the living embodiment of the muddle-headed professor cliche. Roman asked which apartment someone they had seen on the bell sign an L. Williams lived in, claiming they had found their purse and awkwardly thanked her when she didn't know. Remus glanced at the door across from Prof Jain's that clearly said Williams and tried not to laugh out loud.

They visited Professor Davis and Professor Brown, Professor Price and Morgan and Professor Underweather.

Too old, too fat, too much boob, too brown, too short.

It was around seven pm now and they had had seven flukes which somehow was both too much (because why couldn't they just fucking find that asshole? Remus lit a cigarette in frustration) and too little (because how could they only have stopped by seven people so far? It was already getting too late, goddammit).

"Let's do one more and then go home," Roman yawned.

"So whose last for today?" Remus asked glancing at the list Roman was currently holding.

"Some Professor Youngblood. About as weird a name as Underweather. Good news: it's just a block away."

They walked down the street and Remus watched the smoke from his cig curl and fade into the evening sky. A few times he tried to make rings but he still couldn't figure out how to. Maybe that was just a cartoon thing though he could have sworn to have seen it in live-action movies too. Were there YouTube tutorials on this kind of stuff?

"Here it is," Roman said and Remus blinked back to reality.

They stood in front of a simple townhouse. The most notable thing was the flower bouquet visible in one of the windows that looked like something Patton would make.

"Let's give it a shot," Remus said dropped his cig and extinguished it with his shoe.

They walked up the three steps to the front door and Roman rung the doorbell. It was only one with two names. Youngblood and Youngblood-Smith.

Probably a marriage, Remus thought with distaste and prepared himself for some old dick to open up.

The door swung open and to Remus' surprise, it was a teenager probably even younger than them who leaned against the doorframe and glared at them. His eyeliner was sharper and neater than Remus would be able to make it in a thousand years and his lips were painted in a nice shade of dark purple. Maybe Remus should ask him what brand it was. It looked awesome.

"What do you want?" the boy asked with a scowl.

Remus waited for Roman to answer with some kind of excuse or something.

Roman remained silent.

The boy's glare became darker with every passing moment.

At this rate, he probably wouldn't tell Remus what lipstick he was using.

Annoyed Remus glanced over at Roman to see what the fuck was keeping him from saying anything.

The look on Roman's face almost made him gag.

Roman stared at the boy in front of them like he was the most incredible thing in the world. Like he had put the stars in the sky or was made from pure moonlight or some stupid shit like that. He stared at him as he stared into the air when he had some stupid crush or played some lovestruck idiot. He stared like he was going to start waxing poetry at any second now.

Remus doubted he had even heard the boy speak at all.

So he would have to take the situation into his own hands.

"You don't happen to be Professor Youngblood, do you?" Remus asked.

The boy raised an eyebrow.

"Do I look like I'm a fucking Professor? I'm his son, dumbass."

"Is he home?"

"No, not at the moment. What do you want from him?"

The he/him pronouns were a good sign so far and Remus couldn't imagine this guy's dad to be a Doderer. The British accent, on the other hand, wasn't a good sign but Logic could probably cover his accent or something if he really wanted to.

Roman also seemed to finally be back on earth and not on cloud nine.

"We're students of his and we have a question about this homework he gave us," he lied before Remus could say anything.

"You are?" the boy raised his other eyebrow.

"Yes, we are. Do you happen to know if he'll be back soon?"

"Not sure," the boy shrugged. "If it's that important you can come in and wait though. I could also offer you some black tea."

"Really? Yeah, er that would be awe- I mean, that would be nice!" Roman agreed.

"What are your names?" the boy asked as he led them inside. He walked past a door that probably went down to a basement and a staircase up into a small living room.

"I'm Roman," Roman said with a small bow - Jesus fucking Christ was he going fucking insane over this guy?

"And I'm Remus. I'm the good-looking twin, obviously."

The Professor's son chuckled, hiding his mouth behind his hand. "Obviously."

"And what's your name?" Roman sounded like he was asking for a precious gift rather than a fucking name.

"It's Virgil. Do you take milk and sugar in your tea?"

"Milk in tea?" Roman asked confused.

"Yeah, sure!" Remus agreed. Maybe the milk would flake as it did in juice.

Virgil came back with two cups and poured them, giving Roman a little bit of milk anyway, saying that it would be way too strong otherwise and he couldn't allow Roman to drink it pure but somehow Roman didn't complain when Virgil stood over him to pour it in. God, he was being fucking gross and sappy.

Virgil picked up his own cup again and offered them some weird cookies he called shortbread even though they didn't taste like bread at all.

Remus dumped two in his tea - which sadly hadn't flaked - and mushed them around with his spoon.

For a few minutes, it was quiet until Remus got bored with the steady clicking of the clock hanging on the wall behind him.

"So, do you like bones?" he blurted out the first question that came to mind.

Roman looked at him with barely concealed horror but Virgil's dark expression lightened up slightly to both of the twins' surprise.

"I do. It's fun to find them and clean them. I have a few in a cupboard in my room I've found in subways and other places over the years."

"Really?" Remus lit up excitedly. "I collect them too! My favourite is a   near-complete snake skeleton with a rat skull stuck inside!"

"Wow! That sounds so cool!" Virgil didn't quite smile but he wasn't scowling anymore either. "I once found a dog jaw in a quite good conditiion. And I have this really nice possum skull."

"Ooh! Can I see them?" Remus asked bouncing slightly in his seat.

"Sure. Wait here, I'll go get them," Virgil stood up and left the room. Remus could hear him walk upstairs.

"He seems nice," he commented.

"He's beautiful," Roman sighed dreamily.

"Yuck."

"You get to rant about sexy people to me, I get to talk about crushes, that's the deal," Roman reminded him.

Remus rolled his eyes. "Fine, sure. But don't be too gross about it."

They heard Virgil come back downstairs.

He showed Remus the bones and gave him some tips when Remus asked how he had gotten them so clean.

"Oh, jeez it's almost eight. We should probably get going," Roman said after a while. "Maybe we'll get to talk to the Professor some other time."

Virgil seemed to study his face for a few moments.

"Yeah, maybe," he finally said and accompanied them to the door.

"Can I have your number?" Remus asked  holding out his phone. "Then I can send you some pics of my bones and stuff!"

"Sure," Virgil took it and typed something in. "Maybe we'll get the chance to talk again sometime."

The door closed behind them and Roman swirled around to face Remus.

"You got his number?!"

"Yeah, duh."

"That's not fair! Why did he give you his number and not me!"

"Well, I didn't drool over him," Remus shrugged.

Roman pouted the entire way to the train station.

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WHAT IS IT: Trying out Alison Roman's THE COOKIE

THOUGHTS: I don't remember if she mentioned in her tutorial to making these cookies, but they're more of a shortbread with chocolate in it. They are not dough-y, chewy in short not your typical chocolate chip cookie. These are crunchy, NOT sweet and they are shortbread-y lol. It's definitely something new to me. Would I make it again? Probably not. Mostly because I prefer a good chewy, moist chocolate chip cookie (my ult comfort food) and my family is not a fan of it lol. Does it taste good? Probably needed more sweetness in the dough for me and using a good quality chocolate is a must here. She rolled her dough in Demerara sugar before baking I didn't have that so I opted for brown sugar instead. If you're tired of the usual, sweet doughy chocolate chip cookie, I suggest you try this.

PS: these are a pain to cut into circles 😅

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