Kurt_Russel posted... I like the cookie video. What about a pure peanut butter cookie?
It's kind of an expensive gimmick to make everything out of reference material so I don't think there's any more videos like that. I'd say though that he made a few obvious mistakes.
- That chocolate was probably 100% dark. He should have melted it together with cocoa butter, a little milk, and sugar to make some sweeter chocolate chips. He didn't do that though so the chips would have been extremely bitter.
- He totally fucked up the vanilla extract. I have no idea if the amount of vanillin used was correct but vanilla extract is only like 30% alcohol. He used entirely pure food grade ethanol. Not only does this fuck up the flavor of the vanillin but ethanol, when baked, will actually suck the flavor out of things. This is why some recipes will recommend emulsions over extracts.
- They had no binding agents. Probably would have come out better if they added a little xanthan gum or locust bean gum.
- Not really an expert here but that egg did not look right and they probably needed more sugar. Also if it were up to me I would have used egg yolk powder instead of whole egg powder.
It probably wouldn't have come out great regardless but there was definitely room for improvement.