Cookies

Constance Jolly
Sep 6, 2018 · 6 min read

Final idea + Recipe

My final idea is called “Killer Kīlauea Cookies”, treats shaped like volcanoes, bursting with chocolate cookie goodness.

I wanted to play with how we think of cookie shapes, and stumbled upon this idea. Kīlauea is my favorite volcano, and “Killer Kilauea Cookies” has a nice ring to it. It also kind of serves as a warning for how sweet the cookies actually are, so I’m happy with it.

This cookie is made of both cooked and raw dough, and requires more than 3 hours to make.

First, make the ‘cake pop eggless cookie dough’ for the mountain tops later. for my batch, I used the recipe for cookie dough cake pops from this website: http://www.bakerella.com/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-truffles/

you will need:

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
chocolate candy coating
Food coloring- (red + yellow, varying # of drops depending on your preference)

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes).
Mix in milk and vanilla.
Add flour and salt and mix on low until combined.
Stir in chocolate chips. Add yellow and red food coloring to your discretion, stir in till the dough turns a good shade of orange.

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Put the bowl of egg-less dough aside and start on the dough that will be cooked; this batter is double chocolate chip and will serve as the base for the volcano tops.

for the base cookies, I followed this recipe: https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/chewy-double-chocolate-chip-cookies-53301

For this dough, you will need:

with these, do the following:

  1. Cream together the butter, sugar, then add the eggs and vanilla.
  2. Blend in the cocoa and add baking soda, salt and blend well.
  3. Add the flour into the creamed mixture and fold in the chocolate chips.
  4. Bake at 350° for 8–9 minutes.

when they are cooked fully, let them cool for about 10–15 minutes, and retrieve the bowl of egg-less cookie dough. When the cookies are cooled, coat your hands with cooking spray and start scooping the orange dough out, placing it on top the base cookie and forming it into small mountain shapes. you can then let the cookies chill for 30- 45 minutes in the fridge.

To finally coat the cookies in chocolate, you have 3 options: melt chocolate chips, melt some melting chocolate if you have some, or use “magic turtle shell chocolate syrup that freezes in seconds”.

Once you have covered the mountainous cookie in the chocolate coat of your choosing, you can mix yellow and red food dye with icing or melted white chocolate and pour it on the top of the cookie, allowing it to cascade down and create a “stream of lava”.

Aaand you’re done. Enjoy!

Idea Generation

I’ve taken a few pictures of some of my notes, but overall, I started going over flavors that go well together, thinking about what flavors go together on ice cream dishes and things of that nature.

I narrowed it down to four of my ten ideas:

Idea test 1

I decided to test my galaxy cookie idea, but as soon as the cookies came out of the oven, I realized I would have quite a long, difficult task ahead of me. Galaxy cookies are better suited to dough that isn’t teeming with chocolate chips. So, I decided to go ahead with my second idea: the volcano cookies. I had the bases just fine, so I decided to make the mountain parts. I looked up a recipe for “cookie dough cake pops” and made that. It turned out well, but I wanted it to fit into the “lava role” better, so I put some food coloring in the dough to dye it orange. I refrigerated the dough (which I had shaped into mounds) and waited till the next day to cover them in chocolate.

when I covered them in the chocolate, I realized two things: 1.) I hadn’t put them on wax paper, so they were pretty stuck to the plate. 2.) the mounds were now the same size as the cookie bases, and were not exactly compatible surfaces. The was no consistency connecting the two parts. I tried my best to use the melted and orange dyed chocolate to meld the two together, But I hated the way it looked. So hopefully idea 2 will work out.

idea test 2

I still wanted to go ahead with my lava cookie idea, so I decided to use the same base cookies but got about the mounds of raw cookie dough a little differently. to fix the gaping hole and size issues that made the cookie look inconsistent, I made some more raw cookie dough and formed smaller mounds on top of the cookies. I left them in the fridge for about an hour or so and then covered them in “magic hardening shell chocolate sauce” because I wanted it go to more smoothly than when I had tried to dip them in melted chocolate chips.

It was successful and so I incorporated the changes I made into my final recipe.

Iteration

overall, I liked my first few ideas the best, and I’m happy with how they turned out. I should have thought more about how I was going to make them, so that I wouldn’t have had to make them twice. It was interesting to see how my various ideas melded and changed as my creation process went on.

timeline

Tuesday (9/4/18) — outline + timeline blog post + brainstorm flavors that go together
Wednesday (9/5/18) — put together what flavors I like, come up with at least 3 solid ideas, make sure I have access to all the materials needed for making cookie dough at least
Thursday (9/6/18)- pick two ideas to try, make a plan on how to make each, determine what matierials I need (both correct pans, and ingredients)
Friday(9/7/18) — try baking/ test 1. note possible corrections to be made.
Saturday (9/8/18)- with leftover materials, choose which cookie recipe will most likely be the most successful. bake (preform test 2) again with the noted altercations from yesterday.
Sunday (9/9/18) — update the blog and upload/organise pictures
Monday (9/10/18)- friend review
Tuesday (9/11/18)- finish up blog post, make everything perfect
Wednesday (9/12)- bake a dozen cookies
Thursday- peer review

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