1. Cookies that have a high butter-to-flour ratio (1:1 is high) MUST be baked on a Silpat. Otherwise, they are hard to remove from a standard non-stick baking sheet.
2. If the cookies are allowed to cool for even 30 seconds, they will be impossible to remove from the un-Silpat-ed cookie sheet whole and will become cookie brittle.
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3. Cookie brittle makes a great topping for ice cream, particularly if the cookies contain walnuts, pecans, chocolate chips, and toffee bits.
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4. Any whole cookies you are fortunate to get out of this mess will be lacy and break easily. But they will still taste good.
5 comments:
In the days before Silpats, I used to bake my oatmeal lace cookies on aluminum foil. As soon as they came out of the oven I could peel the foil off the back without breaking more than a few. They didn't have all of the yummy bits (chocolate, nuts, etc.), but they were mostly melted butter. I wonder if that would work for your recipe. Or, you could just buy a couple of Silpats. :o)
P.S. Those cookies sound heavenly!
I have two Silpats - I think Mom bought one, and Dad recently donated the other. But I figured the non-stick baking sheets would work fine.
And...I wasn't intending to make damned lace cookies. E@*#()@*# That's just the way they turned out. ALL of my oatmeal cookies are insubstantial.
Parchment paper?
You are KILLING me with the cookies! (Husb and I are sugar-free until the beginning of next week).
Also I have a silpat question . . . can they be used on top of stoneware baking things (like pizza stones, etc)?
I don't see why not, Chris, although if your pizza stone is well-seasoned enough, you may not need a baking mat.
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