@SugarRush Whoops, forgot to ping you... welp, probably no point at this point, but just in case.
Hey there! I have just finished creating and then consuming some absolutely delicious honey cookies, and here's the write up, complete with copious photos!
First off, here are the ingredients I started off with! Though I ended up switching the olive oil out for a different kind that wasn't garlic-infused (thanks for reminding me, mum!) and I while I was going to substitute the brandy with whiskey, I ended up forgetting. :( Whoops!
Here we go with the orange zest, first off! I think I went too much into the rind here, but it didn't affect the taste at all, so it was all right in the end!
Add the sugar and you end up with this intriguing sight!
But then once you add the oil, it instantly goes liquidy again.
Then came the orange juice, but first I had to get the juice out of the orange! I'd like to say that I deliberately chose to do it this way for some kind of ideological or taste reason, but honestly, my mum just got a bunch of oranges instead of orange juice, heh. Even though we hadn't actually tried to juice oranges in, wow, by the looks of that juicer, over a decade? The juicer didn't even work - we just squashed the oranges onto it... But, anyway!
Adding the orange juice! (Combined with fancy one-handed shooting!)
Then some even fancier one-handed shooting, complete with resulting blurriness!
Then it's time to add the sifted flour! And this picture here's rather special because it was immediately after this photo that I fumbled and my phone chose to do an acrobatic damn pirouette out of my hands and directly into the flour. I didn't take a photo of that due to a combination of the panic I was in moments after and the inherent logistical difficulties of taking a photo of something with the thing itself, but at least be comforted that it all turned out okay!
When I first started adding in the flour, I was a little worried that it seemed too liquidy...
...but before long it started to get thicker and thicker, and then...
...I actually ended up putting in a little water, because it was so thick! A dense dough - yep, let's check that off...!
So here we are with the first little batch of uncooked cookies! (Pro tip: if tasting the dough sounds like a bad idea because it's basically 50% oil, you are indeed right. It is a bad idea. Speaking theoretically, of course. I naturally wouldn't try something like that out despite being aware that it would be a bad idea...)
And the second batch, complete with cross-hatching! (Though, they probably could have been deeper... For next time!)
The cookies now in the oven, we start with our syrup! Have some delicious, delicious honey!
Everything together!
And before long, it's nicely cooked as well! And while tasting the syrup is a better idea that (theoretically!!) tasting the cookie dough, be careful about that as well. It's not bad - in fact, it smells amazing - but it is very, very sweet.
Pour it into a bowl for easy dipping, aaaaand...
Voila, here we have them - completed honey cookies! (And my ID number down there as well, of course... though, I only just noticed I misread my ID when I went to write it down - I'm actually 63889, not 63899... :( But... it's close! Hopefully that proof is still good enough, ahah...oh well.)
But either way, just one picture doesn't seem like quite enough, so let's see some more!
And now it's time to relax and have a nice cup of tea...
Delicious!
And they really were! The cookies are kinda crumbly and a little bland on their own, but the syrup is really really sweet on its own, and when you put them together it comes out really nice! The cookies don't end up too soggy, either - just nicely moist! Though it helps that they were still warm when we ate them - I only left them for about five minutes, and still in the oven at that, before I started dipping them.
But most of all were the incredible spices. Apparently the dish is a traditional Christmas dessert, and you can really taste that in the cinnamon and cloves. I especially enjoyed it since, sadly, those Christmassy spices aren't common all together in Australia, and the weather outside lately has made the prospect of something warm and Christmassy very nice! It's not quite Christmas in July yet, but close enough for me!
So yeah, I'm really glad I got to make them - I'll definitely be doing them again sometime - and I'd highly recommend that others do so, too!
Hey there! I have just finished creating and then consuming some absolutely delicious honey cookies, and here's the write up, complete with copious photos!
First off, here are the ingredients I started off with! Though I ended up switching the olive oil out for a different kind that wasn't garlic-infused (thanks for reminding me, mum!) and I while I was going to substitute the brandy with whiskey, I ended up forgetting. :( Whoops!
Here we go with the orange zest, first off! I think I went too much into the rind here, but it didn't affect the taste at all, so it was all right in the end!
Add the sugar and you end up with this intriguing sight!
But then once you add the oil, it instantly goes liquidy again.
Then came the orange juice, but first I had to get the juice out of the orange! I'd like to say that I deliberately chose to do it this way for some kind of ideological or taste reason, but honestly, my mum just got a bunch of oranges instead of orange juice, heh. Even though we hadn't actually tried to juice oranges in, wow, by the looks of that juicer, over a decade? The juicer didn't even work - we just squashed the oranges onto it... But, anyway!
Adding the orange juice! (Combined with fancy one-handed shooting!)
Then some even fancier one-handed shooting, complete with resulting blurriness!
Then it's time to add the sifted flour! And this picture here's rather special because it was immediately after this photo that I fumbled and my phone chose to do an acrobatic damn pirouette out of my hands and directly into the flour. I didn't take a photo of that due to a combination of the panic I was in moments after and the inherent logistical difficulties of taking a photo of something with the thing itself, but at least be comforted that it all turned out okay!
When I first started adding in the flour, I was a little worried that it seemed too liquidy...
...but before long it started to get thicker and thicker, and then...
...I actually ended up putting in a little water, because it was so thick! A dense dough - yep, let's check that off...!
So here we are with the first little batch of uncooked cookies! (Pro tip: if tasting the dough sounds like a bad idea because it's basically 50% oil, you are indeed right. It is a bad idea. Speaking theoretically, of course. I naturally wouldn't try something like that out despite being aware that it would be a bad idea...)
And the second batch, complete with cross-hatching! (Though, they probably could have been deeper... For next time!)
The cookies now in the oven, we start with our syrup! Have some delicious, delicious honey!
Everything together!
And before long, it's nicely cooked as well! And while tasting the syrup is a better idea that (theoretically!!) tasting the cookie dough, be careful about that as well. It's not bad - in fact, it smells amazing - but it is very, very sweet.
Pour it into a bowl for easy dipping, aaaaand...
Voila, here we have them - completed honey cookies! (And my ID number down there as well, of course... though, I only just noticed I misread my ID when I went to write it down - I'm actually 63889, not 63899... :( But... it's close! Hopefully that proof is still good enough, ahah...oh well.)
But either way, just one picture doesn't seem like quite enough, so let's see some more!
And now it's time to relax and have a nice cup of tea...
Delicious!
And they really were! The cookies are kinda crumbly and a little bland on their own, but the syrup is really really sweet on its own, and when you put them together it comes out really nice! The cookies don't end up too soggy, either - just nicely moist! Though it helps that they were still warm when we ate them - I only left them for about five minutes, and still in the oven at that, before I started dipping them.
But most of all were the incredible spices. Apparently the dish is a traditional Christmas dessert, and you can really taste that in the cinnamon and cloves. I especially enjoyed it since, sadly, those Christmassy spices aren't common all together in Australia, and the weather outside lately has made the prospect of something warm and Christmassy very nice! It's not quite Christmas in July yet, but close enough for me!
So yeah, I'm really glad I got to make them - I'll definitely be doing them again sometime - and I'd highly recommend that others do so, too!
