Springerle -- the pink experiment (part 1)

[lblanchard]

I've mixed the dough and made impressions for a little over a dozen cookies. First thoughts:

• twelve hours or so into the process, the cookies look more peach than pink, but they've lost that nasty flesh-colored-crayon color.
  
  
• And there are no white 10x sugar shadows on any of the impressions.
  
  
• The dough rolls and molds better when it has warmed up from being in the fridge. Judging from last time, there's no significant difference in texture. I expect even less difference now that I'm using 10x sugar instead of flour to roll the dough.
  
  
• I don't have enough time to bake a series of test cookies before heading off to a meeting, but I plan to do so this evening. I can hardly wait to see if the sugar makes a slightly shiny glazed top. (Oooh, that would be nice!)
  
  
• The wee springerle bible says that flavor oils are preferable to flavor extracts, giving stronger deeper flavor. I will have to make another pilgrimage to Fantes to try that out. For now, it's raspberry extract. I wonder if they have peach oil -- that would go well with my peach colored cookies.
  
  
• I'd like to try a deeper but still detailed mold. Unfortunately I don't have such a critter. My deeper mold is less detailed. Shopping may be called for.
  
  
• My son has offered to eat all the springerle experiments I'm willing to mail him. My waistline thanks him.
  

Photos will be posted later. I have a couple shots of the molded cookies and will post those, plus shots of finished cookies, in Part II.

And now, off to my day job.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

oooh, What I'd like is to have food paints so I could paint the rose blossoms red and yellow and pink and white, and the leaves green and whatever else, accordingly.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I think that either House-on-the-Hill or Springerle Joy sells them. You can also dilute food coloring if you have a steady hand, which I don't. Or you could look for "safe non toxic" water colors in the kids' craft section. Used in very small amounts, they won't make the cookies taste too bad.

That's what I used to do when I made my treetop angel out of a giant sugar cookie every year. (That was a lot of work -- I stopped doing it in 1981, when I created an embroidered version instead.)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

At one time in my life I had a candy business. I used to paint the molds, but my hand WAS steadier then. I just had a mental picture of some of the 'tiles' you posted earlier, painted accordingly. Of course I would be thinking of that instead of thinking about the move.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

A candy business....you're full of surprises!