This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Chocolate-Pecan Cookies (p 200). It’s a fairly simple cookie made with Dorie’s Do-Almost-Anything Chocolate Cookie Dough (with chopped nuts mixed in) and topped with a mixture of chopped nuts and meringue.
Dorie says:
The simple trick of mixing nuts with sugar and egg whites to create a no-fuss meringue topping makes plain (but thoroughly delicious) chocolate cookies party-plate worthy, cookie-swap worthy and Christmas- worthy too.
Well, sure, in theory, this sounds all well and good but we’ve made “meringue-topped” cookies before and I wasn’t a fan of the technique (nor how mine looked LOL!) so I riffed on these a little. Even though Dorie says “a pouf of nuts makes this cookie look dramatic” – well, mine did not!
To be honest, I actually made, rolled out, and chilled the dough before I remembered to mix in the chopped nuts (I used walnuts as pecans are a bit hard to come by in Southwest France sometimes) and was so happy that my little bar fridge freezer (in our studio apartment) had chilled the dough nicely and I didn’t want to have to let it soften, mix in the nuts and roll/ chill again.
So I went a little rogue and just rolled the crushed nuts onto the rolled-out dough, cut them out, baked them up… and I think it worked perfectly!
Sorry, Dorie! Less fuss but just as flavourful? I’ll go that route anytime!
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate-Pecan Cookies on p 200 of Dorie’s Cookies.
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I totally agree and they look great.
I like what you did here!!
They look pretty good to me.
Great thinking!
I have not looked at this recipe yet. I guess I will have to decide fussy or no fussy directions. I think your cookies look great and tasty.