Cookies

Final idea + Recipe:
“The Fergus Roll”
This cookie is a unique twist of a regular soft chocolate chip cookie, yet has hard creme filled wafers on the inside allowing for a mixture of soft and hard textures. And by cutting the wafers into smaller pieces it allows for an easy way to break the cookie up into smaller pieces like a Kit Kat bar which makes it easy to share with friends and family.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
1 tube of Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough — 30oz
1 container of Chocolate Fudge Pirouette by Pepperidge Farm
1 cookie sheet
wax paper
Baking instructions:
- gather ingredients
- pre-heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
3. cut the Pirouette sticks in half
4. put 3 of the Pirouette half's next to each other
5. wrap a thin layer of cookie dough around the sticks (on both sides) to hold them together
6. Put wax paper on the cookie sheets and place your wrapped sticks on the wax paper with distance between each cookie enough room to spread out.
7. Put the cookie sheet in the oven for 12–15 minutes
8. Take out and let cool down before serving
Idea generation:
My ideas mainly came from what I thought of as traditional deserts and tried to think if it was possible to make them into a cookie. I also tried to think of things that a state fair would do, since they are always selling new and interesting foods that people haven't had before.
In the end I felt most inspired by both my wafer cookie idea (“cookie stick wrapped in cookie”) and fortune cookie idea as they are both types of cookies not associated with being in/ with chocolate chip cookies. I was very intrigued to see how they would turn out if they were baked and if the combination of these different types of cookies would turn out well or if they were kept separate for a reason.


Idea 1 (Stuffed fortune cookie):

Before I made the cookie I thought I was gonna have a bigger hole to stuff the cookie dough in and I also thought that the fortune cookie would be able to hold its shape. However I found it very difficult to fit the cookie dough into the fortune cookie resulting in a more hallow cookie then intended. The heat, from the oven, also caused the fortune cookie to lose its shape making it very difficult to try and follow my original idea.
I learned that you could not keep the fortune cookie shape with the high temperatures needed to bake the cookie dough. I also found out that I would have needed to make a bigger hole in the cookie if I wanted to fit more cookie dough in on the inside. The two textures of the hard fortune cookie and the softness of the cookie resulted in a worse taste the anticipated.
In the end this idea didn't work out. The end result was edible but not made how it was intended. With a few adjustments to the baking process such as a lower temperature with a longer cooking time, I could have had a better shaped cookie and if the fortune cookie was cut in half there would have been a bigger hole that would have been able to allow me to stuff the whole inside with cookie dough.


Idea 2 (a wrapped Pirouette):
This cookie was intended to be a pirouette with a solid layer around it yet the cookie dough instead flattened out to create a common cookie with a pirouette stick in it. It resulted in the pirouette stick to stay intact and was wrapped in a cookie but not how it was intended. It also had a good taste as the wafer became softer and therefore had somewhat of an overall softness with the cookie.

I learned that the cookie dough behaves differently than I though as it spread out in the oven. It also became apparent that the wafer and chocolate chip cookies make a good tasting combination and that the wafer fits well within cookies.
The idea didn’t go as I wanted but it was good to see that the wafer was still in the cookie. The idea was a good starting point as it allows for improvements as it had a different end result than expected.


Iteration:
Since the second idea resulted in a cookie with more surface are than originally intended I realized I had more space to work with. This came to the idea that I could add more wafers. And because we needed to cut some of them up I realized that if I use three half wafers then it would be easier to break into three even pieces. And also If someone wanted less of a cookie they could easily pull off one of the three “sections” of the cookie. The change was not overly complex as I only needed more wafer pieces but it was harder to make as you had to hold the three wafers together while wrapping them in the cookie dough as the wafers can slide around. It also put more weight on the cookie so I had to be careful not to add to much cookie dough as it would have resulted in a monster cookie.


Timeline:
- Tuesday, 9/4/2018: Begin to brainstorm different cookie ideas and start the blog post.
- Wednesday, 9/5/2018: Continue to come up with more ideas. Look at different cooking recipes.
- Thursday, 9/6/2018: Start to narrow down my ideas and see which ones can actually work and would be good to make.
- Friday, 9/7/2018: Decide on one of my ideas and find out what I need to buy.
- Saturday, 9/8/2018: Buy the rest of the ingredients needed to make the cookies.
- Sunday, 9/9/2018: Bake the cookie and make any changes necessary to make the cookie. Final cookie documenting and pictures for the blog.
- Monday, 9/10/2018: Start to work on more of the blog post make sure to keep the cookies in a safe location.
- Tuesday, 9/11/2018: Work on more of the blog post and make any changes needed so I can improve my blog post.
- Wednesday, 9/12/2018: Finish up the blog and make sure the cookies are ready for Thursday.
- Thursday, 9/13/2018, Before class: Make sure both blog post and Cookies are ready to be presented.
