More Food That's Bad For You
Just 'cause I haven't put up a recipe in a while...
These cookies aren't for the faint of heart. They're not hard to make, nor do they contain 50% Hot pepper extract or anything, but I'm betting that 90% of the people who make these don't have the cojones to add the secret ingredient.
These were a favorite of mine as a kid. They're a traditional holiday cookie around our house, but there's no reason not to eat them anytime.
What makes them so "risky"? Raw eggs, baby! Only a couple of raw beaten eggs mixed into the 'batter' gives the cookies their proper taste and consistency. I've seen other recipes try to substitute corn syrup, or honey, or some other dodge, but they're all just whizzing into the fan blades.
Be brave. Get some fresh eggs, have yourself a Rocky Balboa morning pick-me-up, have a real Caesar salad for lunch, crack a raw egg over your steak tartare at dinner, then power down about a dozen of these beauties, and tell the nasssty Salmonella bug to kiss your posterior!*
Cathedral Window Cookies
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 eggs, beaten well. (Insult them too! Atty. General Gonzales would insist!)
1 (10.5 ounce) package multicolored miniature marshmallows (Search long and hard for these. They MUST be the colored variety. Embrace Diversity! Caucasian marshmallows will NOT suffice!)
1/3 cup powdered sugar
DIRECTIONS:
Melt together the butter and chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler or in the microwave. If using microwave, set timer no longer than 30 seconds, stir and repeat until melted.
Stir mixture to blend, then stir in the eggs. Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and reserve. Add colored marshmallows to the other half of the mixture and stir well. Set marshmallow mix in fridge to cool for a few minutes. When mix has lost a bit of its stickyness, pour out onto waxed paper, divide into quarters, and form into rolls. They should be about the size of a frozen juice can.
Place reserved chocolate mix in microwave for 20 seconds to reheat. If using double boiler, just keep it on the stove on low while the marshmallow mix is cooling. Lay out four large pieces of waxed paper. From the reserved chocolate bowl, pour out a dollar bill sized blob onto each one, and spread out slightly, Lay each roll onto the chocolate, and then use remaining chocolate to "paint" each roll until all the gaps are filled in, and each roll has a thick coating.
When finished, dust with powdered sugar, roll up in the waxed paper and refrigerate until completely firm.
Remove the waxed paper, and slice into 1/4 inch slices. They should look like little stained glass windows, unless you weenied out and used the white marshmallows, in which case it looks like slices from a diseased pancreas.
Gobble them up until you're comatose! Thumb your nose at the salmonella-fearing crowd.
*Be brave, but don't be stupid! If you're an old rickety geezer, have immuno-deficiency problems, are under 2 years old, or are allergic to eggs, skip the recipe or else substitute 1/2 golden corn syrup. It won't be the same, but at least you'll be alive to enjoy them.
These cookies aren't for the faint of heart. They're not hard to make, nor do they contain 50% Hot pepper extract or anything, but I'm betting that 90% of the people who make these don't have the cojones to add the secret ingredient.
These were a favorite of mine as a kid. They're a traditional holiday cookie around our house, but there's no reason not to eat them anytime.
What makes them so "risky"? Raw eggs, baby! Only a couple of raw beaten eggs mixed into the 'batter' gives the cookies their proper taste and consistency. I've seen other recipes try to substitute corn syrup, or honey, or some other dodge, but they're all just whizzing into the fan blades.
Be brave. Get some fresh eggs, have yourself a Rocky Balboa morning pick-me-up, have a real Caesar salad for lunch, crack a raw egg over your steak tartare at dinner, then power down about a dozen of these beauties, and tell the nasssty Salmonella bug to kiss your posterior!*
Cathedral Window Cookies
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 eggs, beaten well. (Insult them too! Atty. General Gonzales would insist!)
1 (10.5 ounce) package multicolored miniature marshmallows (Search long and hard for these. They MUST be the colored variety. Embrace Diversity! Caucasian marshmallows will NOT suffice!)
1/3 cup powdered sugar
DIRECTIONS:
Melt together the butter and chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler or in the microwave. If using microwave, set timer no longer than 30 seconds, stir and repeat until melted.
Stir mixture to blend, then stir in the eggs. Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and reserve. Add colored marshmallows to the other half of the mixture and stir well. Set marshmallow mix in fridge to cool for a few minutes. When mix has lost a bit of its stickyness, pour out onto waxed paper, divide into quarters, and form into rolls. They should be about the size of a frozen juice can.
Place reserved chocolate mix in microwave for 20 seconds to reheat. If using double boiler, just keep it on the stove on low while the marshmallow mix is cooling. Lay out four large pieces of waxed paper. From the reserved chocolate bowl, pour out a dollar bill sized blob onto each one, and spread out slightly, Lay each roll onto the chocolate, and then use remaining chocolate to "paint" each roll until all the gaps are filled in, and each roll has a thick coating.
When finished, dust with powdered sugar, roll up in the waxed paper and refrigerate until completely firm.
Remove the waxed paper, and slice into 1/4 inch slices. They should look like little stained glass windows, unless you weenied out and used the white marshmallows, in which case it looks like slices from a diseased pancreas.
Gobble them up until you're comatose! Thumb your nose at the salmonella-fearing crowd.
*Be brave, but don't be stupid! If you're an old rickety geezer, have immuno-deficiency problems, are under 2 years old, or are allergic to eggs, skip the recipe or else substitute 1/2 golden corn syrup. It won't be the same, but at least you'll be alive to enjoy them.
posted by El Capitan | 2:35 PM
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