Cookies

Brendan Steele
Sep 5, 2018 · 5 min read

Final Idea: “Cookie of Steele” is a cookie with melted marshmallow, cookies & cream Hersey’s, and M&M’s in the middle of two chocolate chip cookies. I felt this was a creative idea because it is a lot like a sandwich cookie, for example an Oreo, but none of them had used marshmallows or actual cookies for the tops of the sandwich. To give it more of an ice cream taste I added cookies and cream Hershey’s chocolate in the middle, and then I added M&M’s because they are a good addition to most desserts. Recipe:

Ingredients: Pillsbury Premade chocolate chip cookies, marshmallows, Hershey’s Cookie’s and Cream, and regular M&M’s.

Bake pre-made cookie dough in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 11–13 minutes. After they are done in the oven, let them cool on the pan for about 3 minutes. Cut each cookie in half. Then cut the marshmallow and Hersey’s into pieces, and put the pieces on each half of the cookie. Put the halves onto a plate and microwave for 13 seconds. Let the halves cool for 3 minutes, and then put the halves together to complete the cookie.


Idea Generation:

For my ideas, I decided to just list the first things that came to my head when I thought of cookies. After I made my list I did some research to see if these ideas were possible to make, or if they had already been invented. After this, I eliminated all the ideas that weren’t possible to make or bake, and I drew out my favorite ideas and sketched my ideas down on their own page. A lot of my inspirations for my cookies came from looking around me, or thinking about different ways to shape and mold the cookie dough.


Idea Test 1: My first idea was to make a taco cookie. However, a taco cookie had already been made, so my idea was to make a candy taco cookie, made with two halves of a cookie. At first this idea didn’t work, and I thought that the idea had failed. But then I decided to lay the “tacos” flat and melted the marshmallows in the middle of two halves. This worked really well, and I decided to put the candy in the marshmallow so that the cookies would stay together. I learned that it is important to make sure that you always have a backup plan and even when an idea fails you can modify it and make it better. I also learned when baking, that you have to let cookies cool off for a few minutes, otherwise they crumble and break, which showed in some of my earlier attempts of the “sandwich” cookie.

Idea Test 2: For my second idea, I wanted to do something different with the cookie batter, rather than just putting different ingredients into it. So I decided to try to wrap the cookies around each other. This idea didn’t end up working out in the end, even with multiple trials. I tried molding the cookies before baking them, which lead to me baking a giant flat cookie. I then attempted to mold the cookies when they were fresh out of the oven, which turned into a crumbled mess. So, I learned when baking, cookie batter will always bake flat. Once the cookies are baked, it is extremely hard to mold them into something other than a circle. This proved to be the Achille’s heel in my “wrapped” cookie idea.


Iteration:

For my final idea, I wanted to do my taco cookie idea. But, when I tried connecting the two halves of the cookie together with peanut butter, they wouldn’t seem to stay together. So, I moved to melt marshmallows in the middle of the two halves to make a cookie sandwich. marshmallow.

The first time that I had melted the marshmallow in the middle, I put one on each half and let them melt in the microwave until it seemed that they were done. Unfortunately, I had put too much marshmallow in the middle, and I wasn’t able to put any candy in between.

I decided that I would cut the marshmallows up into little pieces, and then place the candy on top, so that it would all melt together, and hopefully taste better as well. This idea worked, and turned into my final cookie.

Timeline:

  • Tues 9/4/18: Blog post for outline and try to brainstorm ideas for the perfect college cookie. Bounce some ideas off of friends from my floor at dinner.
  • Wed 9/5/18: Figure out best idea from sketches, look up baking tutorials and recipes to make sure that the sketches were possible to make and taste good.
  • Thurs 9/6/18: Finalize sketches, come up with one or two backup cookies, start to make a grocery list to pick up necessary ingredients for the college cookie.
  • Fri 9/7/18: Pick up ingredients for cookies and make sure I have the right recipe.
  • Sat 9/8/18: Go back Saturday if need be for more ingredients.
  • Sun 9/9/18: Begin baking process, test all cookie ideas, if one turns out and tastes good, it will become the FINAL COOKIE, and I will take pictures for the blog.
  • Mon 9/10/18: Finish up the blog and FINAL COOKIE to make sure both are ready to present in class on Wednesday.
  • Thurs 9/13/18: Make sure FINAL COOKIE is ready to go, bring to class and have a successful taste test.

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