welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen um
one of the very first recipes that we
did on this channel for the old cookbook
show although i hadn't yet
called it the old cookbook show and when
i did the recipe i didn't know that i
would be doing more of them
was for a brownies recipe out of the
boston school of cooking or fanny
farmer's cookbook from the 1800s
and i thought it was very interesting
that that brownie recipe had no
chocolate it was what we would today
call a blondie's recipe because
chocolate eventually got
added to it it became chocolate brownies
then it became shortened to brownies and
then what do you do with the brownies
recipe that doesn't have chocolate you
have to change the name to
blondies
and i really like blondies i really like
them i like them a lot and so one of the
recipes that i like is this recipe for
blondes and
blondes or blondies i don't know which
do you call it blondes or blondies
anyway
i really like this recipe and every time
i make it
i think to myself
this batter is really thick it's not
even a batter it's a dough and it's
thick like a cookie dough
and i wonder what would happen if i
baked it like cookies so i'm gonna make
the recipe today for the blondies
same as i always do pecans chocolate
chips
and we're going to
bake it in a pan like i normally would
but i'm going to keep some back
and i'm going to bake a few as cookies
just to see what happens so
you've seen this a million times before
i've got butter and sugar in the stand
mixer and i'm creaming that together
in this bowl i have flour into that i'm
adding salt
and baking powder and we'll just give
that a bit of a mix to bring it together
there we go you don't have to go
overboard got it together
and i think it's time
to
beat in the eggs so one at a time with
the eggs
okay the egg is in so
spoonful at a time flour mixture goes in
and i want to mix this just until it's
mixed and this is a very heavy dough
like i said before it's almost too heavy
to do with a wooden spoon give it a try
if you want
but i find that mixing that last bit of
flour in with a wooden spoon is very
difficult
and
because of that i get halfway through
with the flour and i'll start putting in
the the pecans and the chocolate chips
okay
in with the pecans
the mixer slows down almost immediately
and in with the chocolate chips
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and the last little bit of flour
now i've got a 9x9 baking sheet with a
parchment paper sling
and that's just to just to make it
easier to get it out at the end
i'm going to put
probably three quarters of this
in here and as you can see it's it is
really stiff it's hard to maneuver
and i'm going to save that
and make some cookies probably five or
six cookies worth there so this is one
of those things that you have to really
spread into the pan into the corners
because if you don't it's not going to
spread on its own in the oven okay so
this goes to the oven
okay 350 degrees for about a half
okay so i've got a little baking tray
and we'll drop this on
by the spoonful
might make them fairly large let's see
how these work out
and after i've pulled the baking pan of
blondies out i'll put the cookies in and
we'll bake them too
hey jules hey friends
uh
cookies or or or squares
well that's the question
cookies are squares is that the same
same batter and it and every time i make
it i don't know which one to try well
that's it and every time i make this it
occurs to me i should try it as a cookie
and
but it's also a square it's a circle
it's a cute it's a cube you're good
choices
okay so
any guesses well we haven't cooked
supper yet so i'm going to cut this in
half and i'm going to cut the cookie in
half because no fun glenn knows i can
only have half
okay there we go
i mean
it's chewy
it's sweet and chocolate there's
chocolate there's the nuts pecans it's
got all the good things you could
probably throw dried food in it yeah
it's all good that's i'm in yeah that's
amazing i'm guessing this will be
crunchier
chewy yeah it's
chocolatey yeah
i could eat
there's not quite a cookie texture
though no it's not quite a cookie
but it's really good but i wouldn't be
disappointed i could go either way on
that how to cook that well you've got
choice i do have choice now okay so
simple recipe
you can cook it either way it can be
cookies it can be bars
um
your choice
next oh and
standard cookie 350
12 minutes
easy thanks for stopping by see you
again soon
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