Do you know what circus animals are? Beyond the zoo? These are animal crackers that have been frosted.
With sprinkles!
This is another cookie Inception cookie. Maybe that needs to be an entire month’s theme. But that’s for next year.
The real theme for October is Something Spooky This Way Comes.
After all, Halloween is my favorite holiday season. And there are FIVE Thursdays before, you know, actual Halloween.
This all culminates in the Halloween Spooky Extravaganza where I make 5-6 different cookies/candies for the Thursday before Halloween. And the Thursday before Halloween? Is the day before!
Of course I already have a list and ALL of the supplies. I mean, do you even know me?
The first cookie up is the circus animal cookie.
I had a somewhat difficult time in sourcing the circus animal cookies, which I then slightly crushed to put them in a cookie dough. None of my normal grocery stores had it. But Food Lion did. I don’t count this as one of my normal grocery stores because it is far away and pretty difficult to get to with traffic.
I actually used a recipe for this one as the underlying cookie was different than my usual faithful cookie recipe. It called for much of the same things but only 1 egg and mostly white sugar. Cream of tartar was also a listed ingredient so I pulled my bottle of it out.
Okay, you caught me. I added another egg yolk. Not the white, just the yolk. I have been seeing cookie recipes with 1 egg and 1 egg yolk so I thought I would give that a whirl. The resulting cookie was soft and buttery and yummy. This was also husband approved.
Circus animals aren’t very spooky. But circuses and clowns are and this was the closest I could or wanted to get to that.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 