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Get your snacks before entering the big top.
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What is a good circus snack?
Cotton candy.
Are there good cotton candy cookie recipes on the interwebs?
No.
But there is some AI slop where the picture doesn’t match the recipe ingredients.
But there is some AI slop where the picture is too good to be true.
Scary right?
And that is why Cotton Candy Cookies is a fitting edition to the Something Spooky This Way Comes October theme.
But I still had no recipe. So I read them all.
I had cotton candy, which none of the crappy recipes included. It seemed a good fit and was on sale.
I had cotton candy flavoring, which only 1 of the crappy recipes included.
You see one of the main problems with the AI generated picture is that the cookies looked like clouds. Like cotton candy. They were all sorts of colors; the palest of pinks and the cheerful yellow and the baby blue.
None of the recipes included food dye.
“Fine. I’ll do it myself!” Growled Obadiah Stane, the bad guy in the first Iron Man Movie.
He wanted control over the trillion dollar Stark Industries.
I just want a cotton candy cookie.
This cookie has been one of the true experiment cookies that I have done for awhile. I mean, Inflation Baking 2022 was the last time I really let my hair down in the kitchen. Experimentally, that is. My hair is always tied back when I bake and all the surfaces are freshly cleaned.
How to get the cotton candy into the cookies, without melting it?
Truly, a question for the ages.
I made a sugar cookie base (the one from the animal crackers week, nice to see that I am continuing the circus theme) and folded in cotton candy hunks.
Would this work?
Probably not.
But it was pretty.
When I pulled the first batch out of the oven, the cotton candy had coalesced into a ball of sugar. Kind of like a chip.
Perhaps these should be called Cotton Candy Chip Cookies.
I think I might be onto something here.
Or I could melt white chocolate chips and add the cotton candy flavoring to make a true chip.
Or I could melt white chocolate chips and add the cotton candy flavoring and the cotton candy and put it into a mold to make cotton candy chips.
Why do I only have these ideas when I am writing up the experiment results?
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