chewy chocolate chip cookies?
can anyone veganize this recipe so that the result are perfectly chewy cookies?
alton brown on food network's good eats said that for chewy they had to have melted butter, bread flour, one egg & one egg yolk (apparently egg whites dry out the batter? does that mean the same for egg substitutes?), and more brown sugar than white sugar (he even said you can use ALL brown sugar instead of white which is what i did).
i did this and these things happened:
1) my chocolate chips melted when i added them to my batter (i guess i should have chilled it first? although it doesn't say to in the recipe)
2) my cookies spread into one gigantic rectangular cookie (despite the fact that i chilled the batter as directed!)
3) they tasted... not what i was hoping for
4) they came out REALLY super greasy. like, they are floating in oil or something.
they were from the episode called "three chips for sister.... the thin, the puffy, the chewy".
here's the recipe:
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Hardware:
Ice cream scooper (#20 disher, to be exact)
Parchment paper
Baking sheets
Mixer
Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottom medium saucepan over low heat. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside.
Pour the melted butter in the mixer's work bowl. Add the sugar and brown sugar. Cream the butter and sugars on medium speed. Add the egg, yolk, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Slowly incorporate the flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Chill the dough, then scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets, 6 cookies per sheet. Bake for 14 minutes or until golden brown, checking the cookies after 5 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet for even browning. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
and the url: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/the-chewy-recipe/index.html
it got GREAT reviews!
also, i didn't have bread flour, so i used whole wheat pastry flour which is what i use for ALL of my baking and my cookies always turn out splendid. except this time.
oh, and i didn't know what to do for the "egg yolk" but i figured since the point was that it was a fat that would keep the batter moist, i just added a tablespoon of cold vegan butter. maybe applesauce would have been better? or maybe just two full eggs of my ener-g egg replacer?
did anyone else see this episode and experiment with them yet?!!
please help!
(ps, i feel sorta silly for the greasiness now because i didn't double check the amount of butter for one stick. earth balance sticks look like half the size of a regular stick of butter so i used four sticks but i guess they are really the same size as the other ones but maybe they are thicker? so it has two cups of butter instead of one which might very well be the whole reason why they turned out the way that they did. yikes! well, regardless, can someone veganize this recipe to get chewy cookies that taste decent and aren't greasy?)
I watched that Good Eats! I love Alton. heheh
I think watching the 'butter' consistency is very important but it sounds like you figured out a working method to get around margarine instead of butter. Yay!
I will give these a try soon. Thanks. :)
i love him too!
i like taking the food network recipes and veganizing them.
I'm finally getting back to this. I actually got up to go get the recipe an hour and a half ago, and instead started a load of laundry and cleaned my basement for an hour and a half. My priorities are obviously skewed.
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup margarine (EB, obviously ;))
3/4 cups brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 package of instant vanilla pudding (or whatever flavor you want the cookies to be -- jello brand is vegan, store brand often contains milk)
1/2 cup pureed silken tofu or soy-yogurt (vanilla or plain)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 bag (about 2 cups) of chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350' F. Sift together the dry ingredients (except the pudding mix and chocolate chips!) Cream together the margarine and sugars. Beat in the pudding mix. Add the tofu or yogurt and vanilla and mix until combined. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Finally stir in the chocolate chips. Drop spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes.
Other combos are fun too, like chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips.
wow, yours is almost just like mine except mine doesn't have the pudding mix. i'd love to try yours sometime. it sounds good!
so can you use any vegan pudding mix? like, mori-nu has pudding mix that they made specifically to be blended with their tofu to make delicious puddings. i have a packet of vanilla of that one! would that work?
i'm excited to try yours now. man, i need to give it a couple of weeks, though, because i made 1 1/2 dozen cookies last night and it has been less than 24 hours and the two of us have eaten all but the last five. eeks!
but brittney says that they taste like the kind you can get from the cookie shop in the mall. that's what i was going for... that sort of chewy that i could never quite replicate. mission accomplished!
in the past i've subbed all-purpose or pastry flour for bread flour by replacing a tablespoon or 2 with gluten flour. i don't remember the exact proportions - i just googled it and found it on some baking website. anyway - it worked for whatever i used it for, so that may be an idea for anyone that doesnt want to go buy another type of flour.
rc & rd919 - both of your recipes sound really good - thanks for making me want cookies! i really need to start only visiting threads about salads..
i've never heard of doing that. what exactly is gluten flour?
i need to start only visiting salad related things, too. haha.
in the past i've subbed all-purpose or pastry flour for bread flour by replacing a tablespoon or 2 with gluten flour. i don't remember the exact proportions - i just googled it and found it on some baking website. anyway - it worked for whatever i used it for, so that may be an idea for anyone that doesnt want to go buy another type of flour.
rc & rd919 - both of your recipes sound really good - thanks for making me want cookies! i really need to start only visiting threads about salads..
i've never heard of doing that. what exactly is gluten flour?
i need to start only visiting salad related things, too. haha.
vital wheat gluten - like you'd use to make seitan.
in the past i've subbed all-purpose or pastry flour for bread flour by replacing a tablespoon or 2 with gluten flour. i don't remember the exact proportions - i just googled it and found it on some baking website. anyway - it worked for whatever i used it for, so that may be an idea for anyone that doesnt want to go buy another type of flour.
rc & rd919 - both of your recipes sound really good - thanks for making me want cookies! i really need to start only visiting threads about salads..
i've never heard of doing that. what exactly is gluten flour?
i need to start only visiting salad related things, too. haha.
vital wheat gluten - like you'd use to make seitan.
hah. i've never even thought to make seitan (just like i've never thought to make tempeh or tofu!). i've just purchased it. i didn't know it was something that even i could make. good to know!
wow, yours is almost just like mine except mine doesn't have the pudding mix. i'd love to try yours sometime. it sounds good!
so can you use any vegan pudding mix? like, mori-nu has pudding mix that they made specifically to be blended with their tofu to make delicious puddings. i have a packet of vanilla of that one! would that work?
i'm excited to try yours now. man, i need to give it a couple of weeks, though, because i made 1 1/2 dozen cookies last night and it has been less than 24 hours and the two of us have eaten all but the last five. eeks!
but brittney says that they taste like the kind you can get from the cookie shop in the mall. that's what i was going for... that sort of chewy that i could never quite replicate. mission accomplished!
I think it needs to be instant pudding mix. I've only made it with instant pudding mix, so I don't know how other things would work.
Good job Rainbowdust! That recipe sounds really good! I definitely gotta try it. I love chewy cookies! Yum! I'm glad everything worked out! Yay!
Other combos are fun too, like chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips.
Um, excuse me, where can you find vegan butterscotch chips? I freaking love butterscotch but haven't been able to find a milk-free chip yet. Insight, please!!
Other combos are fun too, like chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips.
Um, excuse me, where can you find vegan butterscotch chips? I freaking love butterscotch but haven't been able to find a milk-free chip yet. Insight, please!!
oh, i cannot believe i didn't ask that first!
i know how to make butterscotch pudding and such... but i would love to have vegan choco-mint chips, vegan peanut butter chips, vegan white chocolate chips, and vegan butterscotch chips definitely!
Good job Rainbowdust! That recipe sounds really good! I definitely gotta try it. I love chewy cookies! Yum! I'm glad everything worked out! Yay!
thank you! you should definitely try it! they are SO yum!
and if you are like us and you like to eat the dough, that was pretty yum too.
Other combos are fun too, like chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips.
Um, excuse me, where can you find vegan butterscotch chips? I freaking love butterscotch but haven't been able to find a milk-free chip yet. Insight, please!!
oh, i cannot believe i didn't ask that first!
i know how to make butterscotch pudding and such... but i would love to have vegan choco-mint chips, vegan peanut butter chips, vegan white chocolate chips, and vegan butterscotch chips definitely!
Hmmmmm... why not try making some hokey pokey? .......(In case you're wondering, Golden Syrup is like... um... light molasses?? it's a dark-golden colour, slightly darker than rice syrup. I wonder if you have anything like it in the US.) And then chop it into bits to make chips. :)
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