Another Fat Guy Cooks - Ep 3 White Choc and Strawberry cookies

White Chocolate & Strawberry Cookies

Ingredients (so buy this crap in advance)
Wet - Unsalted butter, vanilla paste/extract, eggs
Dry - Self rising flour, golden caster sugar, dark brown sugar, white chocolate chips, freeze dried strawberries, salt

Ask your mom where she keeps the small pots and if you’re allowed to use the stove all by yourself.

In said pot, melt 125 grams of unsalted butter until the milk solids turn brown. If you’re clueless, get something other than a black pot to better see the color change as the butter browns. Stir to avoid the butter burning, duh! The darker the butter the sweeter the cookie, I heard that somewhere. Maybe it wasn’t about cookies, but I digress.

Pour the browned butter into a mixing bowl and let stand. You want to be able to dip the appendage of your choice (judgment free recipe) in it, without suffering first degree burns.

While the butter is cooling, in a separate bowl combine 125 grams of golden caster sugar and 100 grams of brown sugar. Total needs to be 225 grams but you can alter the amounts to your liking. Ebony and Ivory sugar will need to live in perfect harmony at 225 grams total.

Add a hefty pinch of salt at this point to your sugar if you’ve used unsalted butter. If you were only able to trade a chicken for semi or salted butter, cut down on the size of the pinch.

In yet another bowl your mom can provide, place one egg and two additional egg yolks. There are tons of YouTube videos on how to separate the yolk from the baby batter looking stuff.

Start preheating the oven at 450 degrees fahrenheit. There’s an online calculator somewhere to help convert to celsius, if you need to. Best of luck.

When the butter won’t burn your willy, slowly begin to whisk in the sugar/salt concoction soon followed by your egg and two yolks. A mix master works best but if you don’t have one and if you haven’t had a wank yet, a hand whisk would also cut the mustard.

Continue to whisk slowly until it all comes together, like John Lennon said. Make him proud.

Add a teaspoon of vanilla paste, extract or essence depending on where the hell you live.

As all this mess incorporates in the mixing process the color should lighten and look fluffy (air tends to do that). When all this has fully come together. Stop. Hammer time. Or Spatula time.

Scrape the sides of your bowl with a spatula to make sure all ingredients are incorporated and some are not just hanging around on the outer limits watching. Everyone participates here.

Run the mixer again but this time switch to a paddle attachment and if you’re doing this by hand, grab a wooden spoon and prepare to go to town on this batter like it owes you money.

On low, slowly begin to add one cup of flour. Slowly. Mix. Add some more. Mix. Add some more. Mix, rinse and repeat until the flower is fully incorporated. You are looking for a sticky and wet consistency. That’s what she said.

Spatula time again to make sure all invited guests are engaged. Mix some more.

Flavor Time - add 40 grams of freeze dried strawberries and 5.5 ounces of white chocolate chips. Don’t tell me you can’t find freeze dried strawberries, you have Amazon on your phone.

Mix/incorporate these chips and berries into your batter, no need to go slow here. That’s what she said.

When your dough is ready and thoroughly mixed, hit up mom again for a backing sheet and some parchment paper. Line the pan with the paper. What else would you do with it?

If mom’s still around ask her for an ice cream scoop or else use your CLEAN hands to make small golf ball sized cookie dough balls. Six to your tray as you don’t want them to spread out, merge and create one or two giant super cookies. They could then rise up and take over your kitchen. Keep them small and manageable, like a spouse or children.

9 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Keep an eye on them, and yank when flattened out and golden brown on top.

Let sit on the pan for five minutes unless you want to spend time scraping them off the paper at which time they most likely no longer resemble a cookie. An additional five minutes on a wire rack.

Put your next six balls on the tray, rinse and repeat as many times as necessary.

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