Tuesdays with Dorie DC: Baby Buckwheat Bars

August 17, 2021 at 12:01 am | Posted in cakes & tortes, cookies & bars, DC, groups, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 4 Comments
Tags: baking, cookies

The buckwheat flour and chocolate combo is a wonderful one, so I’m excited Baby Buckwheat Bars have finally made center stage. These baby bars are really more like bite-sized cake squares than cookies. Since I don’t need 100 pieces of anything, no matter how teeny, I made just a third of the recipe and baked it in a loaf pan. It was a small amount, so I made it by hand, blatantly ignoring Dorie’s headnote warning that the texture depends on using a stand mixer. I think the baby batch of baby bars came out just fine, but I can see the big kid batch being difficult to hand whip properly. I enjoyed the grainy texture and earthy flavor of these GF bars (a strange-sounding compliment), and the little bits of chocolate throughout. Dorie gives a couple of optional embellishments to this recipe, and I opted for both. One is a nip of booze in the batter. I’m all out of the rum she suggests, but I subbed nocino walnut liqueur. The other is a ganache glaze, which I obviously could not resist and also sprinkled with a little flaky pink salt (I did skip the egg wash on top before baking).

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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I need to try these with ganache/ glaze! (I also made by hand!)

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— August 17, 2021 #

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Oh I love the addition of the ganache…and a little salt!! I think it would go really well! We enjoyed these more than I thought we would!

Comment by isthisakeeper— August 17, 2021 #

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I used the booze but skipped the ganache. The grainy, earthiness of these was not my bag – I made a half batch and gave two thirds to the neighbours. The ganache makes them seem more tempting.

Comment by Cakelaw— August 17, 2021 #

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I think your bars are the best of the bunch. The ganache looks wonderful. Glad that you enjoyed them.

Comment by Diane Zwang— August 18, 2021 #

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