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Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

If you love the combination of sweet and salty, you’ll love these salted caramel shortbread cookies. These cookies are so simple to make. They start with a simple shortbread, baked to perfection. Then they’re topped with delicious creamy caramel, sprinkled with some coarse sea salt, and drizzled with chocolate. It’s a perfect flavor combination for fall all the way through winter.

Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

When you’re mixing up shortbread, it won’t mix up into a cohesive mass like most cookie doughs do. It stays pretty crumbly. But that’s okay! It’s just the nature of it. All you need to do is work it by had a little. Squeeze and press it together, then carefully roll it out and you’ll have a nice cohesive cookie ready to bake.

Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

A little tip I use every single time I roll out cookie dough. I like my cookies to all be the exact same thickness, not only so they look good, but also because they’ll all bake evenly. I’ve had these 1/4-inch square dowels for many, many years. I also have 1/8-inch ones, but I don’t use those nearly as often. So, what I do is I take my two square dowels and place one on each side of my dough. I then roll the dough out until my rolling pin hits the dowels. This way every cookie is the same thickness.

Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

 

Shortbread:

1 1/2 cups butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Topping:

26 ounces Peter’s caramel
4 tablespoons milk
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
1 tablespoon butter
Coarse sea salt

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat butter until creamy. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.
  3. Add flour and mix until just incorporated.
  4. Your dough may not be a cohesive mass at this point. Don’t worry. Just work it with your hands and it will come together. Shortbread dough is crumbly, but presses together nicely.
  5. Place half of the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll out until it’s 1/4-inch thick. With a 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut out as many cookies as you can and place them on an ungreased baking sheet. Press the remaining dough back into a mass and roll out again. Repeat until you have used all the dough.
  6. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until just starting to brown. Transfer to a baking rack and allow to cool completely.
  7. Using a kitchen scale, weigh out 26 ounces of Peter’s caramel.
  8. In a microwave safe bowl, melt the caramel and milk on high for 2-3 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until it’s melted and smooth.
  9. Add 1-2 teaspoons of caramel to each cookie, then sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
  10. In another microwave safe bowl, melt the chocolate and butter on high for 1-2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and smooth. Drizzle over the cookies.

Enjoy!

Note:
I like to ensure an even thickness when I roll out cookie dough by rolling the dough between two 1/4-inch square dowels.

Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies

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November 4, 2019 by Dawn Mikesell Leave a Comment

French Macarons Made Easy

French Macarons Made Easy | Okay, so to start off, let’s get clear on what this post is all about. Macarons are not the same as macaroons.

Macarons (pronounced Mah-kah-RHON) are little round meringue cookies made with egg whites and almond flour. The outer cookie is crunchy with a creamy filling. They are sandwiched together with some kind of filling, usually a ganache, jam, or flavored buttercream. Most often they’ll be colored brightly or with a pastel hue. This is the cookie I’ll be teaching you about today.

Macaroons (pronounced MAH-kah-roon), however, are coconut drop cookies that are chewy and moist. While these are definitely delicious, they’re not what I’m addressing today.

French Macarons Made Easy | #1 Simple Recipe

French macarons have gained a lot of popularity in the last couple or so years. They’re also known for being pretty finicky to make. For a long time I’ve been wanting to make these, but I’ve been intimidated by them. I’ve heard they’re hard to make, so obviously they struck my interest. I like to be able to make things that most people think are difficult. But I also hate failing. I didn’t want to make them and have them not turn out.

So I set about doing a ton of research ’cause that’s what I do. And you know what? The very first time I made them they turned out perfectly. (Much to my surprise.)

So I’m going to give you several pointers and tips to help you have success with your macarons.

Weigh Your Ingredients

More accurate measuring comes when you weigh your ingredients with a kitchen scale rather than measuring them by volume. For example, one cup of sifted flour will weigh less than one cup of unsifted flour because there’s more air in it and the air weighs next to nothing.

Use Room Temperature Egg Whites

Egg whites at room temperature whip up to a higher volume than cold egg whites. When the egg whites are cold, the proteins in them are tight and it takes more time and force to whip them up. However, cold egg whites separate from the yolk easier. So, it’s best to separate your eggs cold and then let your egg whites sit out on the counter for 20-30 minutes to warm up. In a pinch, you can place the whole in-the-shell eggs in a bowl of warm water for 5-10 minutes.

Use Finely Ground Almond Flour

Coarse almond flour will leave you with a rough texture. What we’re looking for is a nice smooth texture. Sift the almond flour with powdered sugar to get rid of any larger pieces.

Use More Food Coloring Than You Think You Need

The color fades when the macarons bake, so when mixing the food coloring in, go a shade or two darker than you want.

Fold Just the Right Amount

There comes a time in the macaron-making process when you fold the dry ingredients into the egg whites. Unlike many other desserts that state to fold until just incorporated, macarons need lots of folding to produce the correct consistency. The more you fold, the more air bubbles will pop and the thinner the batter will get. If you under-fold, your macarons will end up lumpy and cracked and they won’t have the classic “foot” after they’re baked.

If you over-fold, they’ll end up flat and will also not produce that “foot”.  When you lift up your spatula, you want the batter to fall off in a ribbon. The batter that falls off the spatula should sit on top of the batter in the bowl and disappear back into the mass in about 10 seconds. 65-75 folds is about right for me. But it also depends on the strength of your arm. This may be something that will take some trial and error for you.

French Macarons Made Easy | #1 Simple Recipe

Precise Piping

Alright, so after you’ve achieved the optimum consistency, you’ll want to transfer your batter to a piping bag fitted with a large round piping tip. I use a Wilton 2D. Some people can eyeball the exact right size every time, but not all are that gifted. A template may be in order for those who have a difficult time getting them all the same size. You can do this by tracing around a small round cookie cutter onto the backside of a piece of parchment paper. It really doesn’t matter what size you make them as long as they’re all pretty much the same. I like mine to be about 1 1/4 inches in diameter.

Patience… Let Them Sit

After you’ve piped them onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, it is absolutely necessary to let them sit for about 30 minutes out in the open air. They need to form a skin. If they don’t, they’ll spread in the oven. With a skin, they won’t be able to spread, which will force them to rise upward, creating the classic “foot”. Before you put them in the oven, they should be slightly tacky to the touch, but they won’t stick to your finger.

Do Not Under Bake

Bake for the full 20 minutes even if they look done before that. If you don’t, they’ll stick to your tray.

Did you get all that? It’s a lot of information, but if you take it one step at a time you’ll turn out some perfectly amazing and delicious macarons.

Oh, and also you can make these any color you want and the filling can be any flavor you want. Let your imagination go wild!

 

French Macarons Made Easy

Ingredients

  • 2 Egg White (Room Temperature)
  • 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 3/4 Cup Almond Flour
  • 1/4 Cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1 tsp Flavored Emulsion (more or less to taste)
  • Food Gel Colouring (optional)

Directions

  1. Sift almond flour and powdered sugar together in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk to combine.
  2. Beat egg whites until foamy, then add sugar half at a time then continue to beat until medium-stiff peaks form.
    1. Add in flavor and/ or coloring and beat to distribute
  3. The macaronage step is next. Add half of the dry ingredient to the egg white mixture, folding with a rubber spatula until combined. Then do the same with the other half of the dry mixture. Once the batter is folded together, you’ll complete the macaronage by pushing the batter against the perimeter of the bowl with a spatula to release the extra air. You’ll do this until the batter is a thick consistency that runs like lava off of the spatula and sinks back into itself.
  4. Once the batter is the right consistency,t transfer to a piping bag with the #12 tip. Pipe equally sied macarons onto Silpat. Once they’re piped knock any additional air out of the macarons by smacking the baking sheet onto the counter a few times.
  5. Let the macarons sit at room temperature until the macarons develop a shell and indent when touched.
  6. Bake them for 17-20 minutes at 300 degrees. You don’t want them to brown too much or stick to the pan when trying to remove.
  7. Fill with buttercream, whipped cream, or fruit preserves. And enjoy!

French Macarons Made Easy | #1 Simple Recipe

Macarons will be best after sitting in an airtight container for a few hours. They’ll stay fresh in an airtight container in the fridge for a day or two.

BONUS! They are freezable. Thaw them out at room temperature.

Simple Buttercream Filling

  • 1/4 Cup Softened Butter
  • 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 tsp Flavored Emulsion (more or less to taste)
  • Coloring (if desired)
  • Splash of milk as needed for consistency.

 

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April 1, 2019 by Dawn Mikesell Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago my family was invited over to dinner with some friends. For dessert, they served a chocolate chip skillet cookie with ice cream. I was intrigued. Yes, I’ve seen large cookies before. But I’ve never seen one baked in a cast iron skillet. And in my opinion, anything baked in cast iron is just better. I don’t know what it is, but it’s just better. And this cookie was amazing.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Skillet Cookie

That’s when I decided that this skillet cookie needed to be the subject of a blog post. And so here it is. It’s some cookie dough smashed into a cast iron skillet and baked. Simple. It takes the time out of portioning each cookie (which really isn’t that bad, but hey, I’ll take some time saving wherever I can get it) and takes cookies from a common snack food to a fun dessert.

I decided also to add some oatmeal because hey, at Kitchen Kneads we’re all about the grains. So, I hope you give this giant cookie a try soon!

Oh! And if you’re in need of a cast iron skillet, check this one out. You won’t regret it because cast iron skillets can be used for so many things like this Skillet Rosemary Chicken or this Cast Iron Pan Pizza.

[yumprint-recipe id=’166′]Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Skillet Cookie

Filed Under: Cookies, Recipe Tagged With: Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Skillet Cookie

March 1, 2019 by Dawn Mikesell Leave a Comment

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