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Sunday 1 July 2012

Cookie Dough Truffles

As a child I was never that fussed about scraping out the bowl unless it was butter icing!  However,  Quirk Publishing offered me the chance to review a neat little book 'The Cookie Dough Lovers Cook Book' by Lindsay Landis. It's available at the ubiquitous online book shop ;-)


This is not cookie dough as we know it, for making cookies,  it's specially formulated cookie dough that tastes divine eaten raw, and so it should as it is packed with butter and sugar!  The basic chocolate chip cookie dough is eggless and really simple to make.  It's the basis for most of the recipes with variations including peanut butter, vegan/dairy free, gluten free and lots of different combinations of spices, sugars, nuts and chocolate chips.

Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Makes 1 1/2 cups
Total Time: 15 minutes

1/2 cup (100g) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup (50g) granulated suagr
1/2 cup (100g) light brown sugar, packed
2 tbsp milk or cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups (150g) plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup (100g) mini dark chocolate chips

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer on medium speed until  light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.  Mix in milk and vanilla. Stir in flour and salt and mix on low speed (or by hand) until incorporated. Stir in chocolate chips.

Dough can be enjoyed immediately or store, covered or in an airtight container in the refrigerator, for up to 3 days.



Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles


Form the dough into small balls and arrange on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.  Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes.

Melt 200g dark chocolate in a double boiler or a bowl over a pan of water.  Using two forks dip the cookie dough balls in the melted chocolate and replace on the baking parchment.

Decorate with sprinkles or dust with edible glitter.  Or you could wait until the chocolate is set and pipe over some white chocolate.

I made some with milk chocolate as well, not to my own taste but to avoid me and hubby pigging out on these truffles,  we both took them into work and some of our colleagues prefer milk chocolate.  They were a huge hit, with comments such as "Do they have alcohol in them?" which must have been the vanilla and "Delicious, would be great at Christmas".

Chapters


Candy - including the truffles featured above.

Cookies and Brownies

These are Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies, this photo also shows the really useful design of the book.  It is ring bound and, when folded out,  the pages are narrower than the cover so there is a Cookie Dough Lover's Cheat Sheet visible on the left of the recipes.

Cakes, Custards and Pies
 Just look at those fabulous Cookie Dough Stuffed Dark Chocolate Cupcakes!  This chapter also features the Cookie Dough Mosaic Cheesecake:


Frozen Treats is full of icecreams and ice lollies

 There are two more chapters:  Indulgent Breakfasts and Fun Snacks and Party Fare

All of these recipes include basic cookie dough and having been a little unsure of whether I was going to like cookie dough, I have to say I'm a convert and can't wait for an opporunity to try another one of the recipes.  The icecream is calling to me!

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. I was not required to write a positive review and any opinion expressed is my own. 


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8 Comments:

At 1 July 2012 at 22:57 , Blogger Lisa @FacelessFood said...

Those truffles look fab!

 
At 2 July 2012 at 02:47 , Blogger Unknown said...

I am sending a link to this to my workmate who is FOREVER sending me links to cookie dough recipes. I've always told her that my mum said eating raw dough would give you a tummy ache... so, what I really want to know is, how are these tummy-ache free?!

 
At 2 July 2012 at 17:13 , Blogger Baking Addict said...

Looks delicioius!! Love that it's an eggless cookie dough. Great review - mine is waiting at home for me to review!

 
At 2 July 2012 at 20:40 , Anonymous Chris said...

Janice, this cookie dough really sounds lovely. I would have good use for it ... eat it right away, altough that truffels are nice, too!

 
At 2 July 2012 at 22:26 , Blogger Phil in the Kitchen said...

Interesting idea. I've never been a fan of eating dough but those truffles do look really inviting.

 
At 4 July 2012 at 19:31 , Blogger Karen S Booth said...

Hmmm.....I am not sure about this book Janice but I MUST admit that your truffles look amazing! Karen

 
At 28 December 2012 at 10:13 , Blogger Borqna said...

Excellent post! Bravo!

 
At 2 February 2013 at 20:57 , Blogger Den said...

How many truffles does the recipe make?

 

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