Before my trip I made a batch of Mexican Chocolate Chip Cookies (which I've made before: recipe here). Now I call them Cayenne Chocolate Chip Cookies cause saying Mexican always begged the question, "what makes a cookie Mexican?" and since the answer in this recipe is cayenne pepper I figured I'd skip a step and just call them Cayenne Cookies.




This time, instead of adding the dark chocolate as chips or chunks I melted it and mixed it into the batter to create chocolate cookies (no chips). They tasted great but I sort of missed having chips, and the mix of the batter got thrown off and the cookies were very crumbly. If I actually knew about cooking beyond following recipes I would have compensated for adding the melted chocolate but I don't know how (add more flour? eggs?).

Labels: icecream, snappy