Today on Sugar Spun Run I'll be showing you how to make lace cookies.
Hey everybody! Sam here and today I'm going to be sharing my recipe for homemade
lace cookies. These are pretty easy cookie to make. They're thin. They're
brittle. They're crispy. They are as addictive as potato chips. I think you're
really going to love them. Now to get started you'll want to pre-heat your
oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. The next thing you're going to need is a medium
sized heavy-bottomed saucepan, and let's go ahead and head over to our stove top.
Now in the saucepan we are going to combine 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter,
1/2 cup of firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup of granulated sugar, and 1/4 cup of light corn syrup.
Now you will want to grab a wooden spoon, or a
heatproof spatula. Something where the handle is not going to get hot and burn
you, and we're going to turn our stove top heat to medium and just cook,
stirring frequently until the sugar is melted.
Now keep your heat over medium. You do not want to crank up the heat to speed up the process because then
your sugar won't melt properly, and you're just gonna have a mess on your hands. So
have patience and just keep stirring while the mixture comes to a boil. Once
it finally does come to a boil we can remove our saucepan from our heat.
Now we still have a few more ingredients to add starting with one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
1/4 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour, and two thirds cups of
finely chopped almonds. Now I do want to just talk about these almonds for just a
second. I will usually either chop them myself, I'll mince, the kind of mince them
like I'm mincing garlic and do it on my cutting board, or to make things even
easier I'll toss them in my food processor and pulse them until they are
finely chopped. Now be careful if you use the food processor method that you don't
go overboard, or you will end up with almond butter. I just want to show you
what this looks like, so you have a good idea. I also do not use blanched almonds.
I leave the skins on and I have never had a problem with that. Now we'll just
want to stir everything together until all of your ingredients are completely combined in your saucepan.
This is a very runny cookie dough so I like to let it sit for about five
minutes before I start scooping it. Now it's still going to be pretty runny. It
will firm up as it cools but I like to let it sit that way it's just a little
bit easier to manage. Once it has cooled for about five minutes you'll want to
use a cookie scoop that's about one and a half teaspoons in size, or you can just
use two spoons and measure it that way, and we'll portion this cookie dough, or
this cookie batter onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Now when spacing these cookies, make sure you give them plenty of room because
they are going to spread a lot in the oven you want to space them several inches apart.
Now we'll transfer these lace cookies to our 350 degrees
Fahrenheit preheated oven where they will need to bake for nine minutes.
You'll want to rotate them halfway through baking. Now everyone's oven can
vary a little bit. The easiest way to tell they're done baking is if you peek
at them, the bubbling that happens while they're in the oven should have stopped
and they should be a nice golden brown color. Make sure you keep an eye on these
cookies while they're in the oven, because they can burn really fast. Once
your lace cookies finish baking you are going to need to let them cool
completely on the baking sheet. While they're still warm they're going to be
very fragile and they are not going to be brittle yet. They need to cool
completely so that they're nice and brittle all the way through. Now once
they've cooled we can go ahead and dig in.
So as you can see now that they've cooled they are nice and brittle and crisp. They're as addictive as potato
chips and they're a lot of fun to eat. That is how easy it is to make lace
cookies. I hope you guys try this one out and if you do let me know what you think.
I hope you love them as much as I do. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you next time.
It's like a candy and a cookie all rolled into one. These are really good.