Tuesdays with Dorie DC: Chocolate-Cranberry and Almond Cookies

January 19, 2021 at 8:50 pm | Posted in cookies & bars, DC, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 4 Comments
Tags: baking, chocolate, cookies

At first glance, to me, the recipe for these Chocolate-Cranberry and Almond Cookies sounded like a bit of a throw-away….not weird, but just some random stuff squished together to make a cookie. But then I made them and tried them, and I really liked them.

These cookies use Dorie’s “Do-Almost-Anything” chocolate dough, which is a nice dough that holds it’s shape well and can be used for cut-outs, pinwheels, thumbprints, whateves. Take the base dough and mix in bits of tart dried cranberries, roll and cut the cookies and top them with a sugary, meringue-like sliced almond topping. In keeping with my on-going pandemic pantry-purge, and in the spirit of this recipe of random stuff, I used what I had when I made these cookies: dried cherries in place of the cranberries and granulated almonds in place of the sliced. I made just half of this recipe, which was a pretty small amount of dough, so I did something I usually avoid at all costs…I formed it into a slice-and-bake log. I don’t normally like messing with that style of cookie formation, but I thought I wouldn’t get a good yield as roll-outs, without re-rolling scrap a zillion times. They aren’t perfect rounds because I stink at slicing, but they tasted good (sweet, tart and chocolatey), and that’s what matters.

For the recipe, see Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll.

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Your cookies turned out just great as a slice and bake. I liked these.

Comment by Cakelaw— January 19, 2021 #

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Oh yes, these would be great as slice and bake cookies! Yours are PERFECT, as usual!

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— January 20, 2021 #

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Steph, I always love reading your posts…so real and on the money! I thought these seemed to be an odd combo as well but we enjoyed them too. I wish I had thought of making them a sliced cookie…would have been much easier as I made half the dough as well! Yours look great!

Comment by isthisakeeper— January 21, 2021 #

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- thanks!! it was odd, but it worked!
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— January 21, 2021 #
  
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