Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Chocolate Mint Nightcaps


These sounded so delightful!  Mint… chocolate… nightcap.  All things I love.  But I did not love all these things together in this cookie.

The ganache, despite being ganache and otherwise awesome, needed more mint flavor, certainly more than what was imbued with fresh mint and cream coming to a boil together.

The chocolate cookies came out soft and rather bland.  I was expecting some crispness to lend contrast to the rather soft and forgiving ganache.

And the "nightcap" looked like something I might find on my lawn from a neighboring dog.

Not my type of cookie, but I was excited to be back baking after missing the walnut loaves earlier in the month.

For others' experience with this cookie, be sure to check out the blogroll Tuesdays with Dorie.

And Rhiannon...

3 comments:

  1. Ha Ha! Mine too! Especially the lawn decoration part. Now I suppose I'll have to admit that I'm almost as obsessed with head-hole pictures as with shoes in the road. Rhiannon is precious!

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  2. Yup. You said it all.
    My chocolate eaters did like this one, but I just couldn't get past the "dropping" effect :-)

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