I started ambitiously with two recipes this week (6/10/12): It's it (a mint chocolate chip cookie sandwich) and hamentashen (pastry dough filled with jam in sweet triangle packages.
The professional looking pic of the ice cream sandwiches below were how these could have ended up and I did pick up the coconut mint chocolate chip 'ice cream', but found I was a far bigger fan of the 'ice cream' helping me through a rough week and then making the cookies for my students. They liked the mint chocolate chip ones so well that they, 1, couldn't believe they were vegan or GF and 2, begged for them again.
They were incredible, crisp, excellent crumb and just minty enough. Will make them again and again.
The hamentashen were a different story. I've made the pastry dough twice now (you'll see me talk about it in my wonder buns blog) and I just don't have good luck with it/ don't like it. I thought the issue was a few extra hours in the fridge, but the second time I made the dough it just tasted too mealy. The center jam was something I improvised on- I had a bunch of peaches and unwisely followed the instructions verbatim, poppy seeds and all. It was a sweet peachy mess. The kids loved the jam and weren't big on the dough. Of course I now have a ball jar with three more cups of this sticky stuff.
Overall, an interesting start... And in addition to Brendan Braiser's pizzas, Sunday baking is back. :)
