When I started baking with Rose's Alpha Bakers I knew that I would quickly deplete my supply of superlatives for the recipes in The Baking Bible. And here we are just seven months into a two-year project, I am bereft of a word to describe these delights!
The cookie batter is simplicity itself--just egg whites whipped long and high with brown sugar. The meringue inflates into a thick, light paste that's stable and putty colored. There's a copious amount of toasted pecan halves in the recipe. Half of them are chopped and then they are all folded into the the meringue. That's right--just three ingredients in the cookie batter.
The cookie batter is simplicity itself--just egg whites whipped long and high with brown sugar. The meringue inflates into a thick, light paste that's stable and putty colored. There's a copious amount of toasted pecan halves in the recipe. Half of them are chopped and then they are all folded into the the meringue. That's right--just three ingredients in the cookie batter.
The batter is scooped onto parchment-lined cookie sheets and then spread into little patty shapes with an offset spatula. Mine weren't the tidiest little discs.
Out of the oven, they resemble little mud cakes. Mine didn't acquire the cracks that Rose describes in the recipe. I used my ever reliable Thermapen to determine if they were done.
Scoops of vanilla ice cream are sandwiched between two cookies. Note the way softened ice cream is drooling over the side of the carton. It was the harbinger of much more drooling to come.
The ice cream sandwiches are drizzled with Rose Blend Special Ganache. The ice cream seemed to never get firm once I got it between the cookies. The ice cream drooled out of the cookies, the chocolate drooled over the top, and then by this time I was drooling to taste them!
Wrapping individual ice cream sandwiches. They didn't look very pretty once they were unwrapped, but no one seemed to mind! They are so delicious, these are going to be a summer favorite. They are very easy to make and simply wonderful to eat.
I made one and a half batches of this recipe and only got 23 ice cream sandwiches from the recipe. I used the recommended size scoop but it must have been overfilled.
If you are new to my blog, the Alpha Bakers are a group of bakers who are baking through the latest cookbook by Rose Levy Beranbaum. The book is entitled The Baking Bible, and I have been baking her recipes for so long, I hardly know how to turn on the oven without opening one of Rose's books!
Please join me next week for a recipe I'm really excited about--Fourth of July Cheesecake!
It's got a red velvet cake base, white cheesecake and a blueberry topping. It looks heavenly, and I've been looking forward to it since I first opened the book.
I really appreciate you visiting and commenting on my blog!
If you are new to my blog, the Alpha Bakers are a group of bakers who are baking through the latest cookbook by Rose Levy Beranbaum. The book is entitled The Baking Bible, and I have been baking her recipes for so long, I hardly know how to turn on the oven without opening one of Rose's books!
Please join me next week for a recipe I'm really excited about--Fourth of July Cheesecake!
It's got a red velvet cake base, white cheesecake and a blueberry topping. It looks heavenly, and I've been looking forward to it since I first opened the book.
I really appreciate you visiting and commenting on my blog!
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