Got a better recipe for these chocolate pretzels?
Martha Stewart has a recipe for chocolate pretzels. Not chocolate as in the confection, but like a deep, rich chocolate cookie shaped into a pretzel. I was thinking that dusted with sea salt, they'd make an excellent holiday present.
Unfortunately the reviews of the recipe are terrible....tastes like flour....not much flavor...coloring not good. I'm only a holiday baker. I don't have the skills to improve upon it. Anyone have any thoughts? Can I simply take any chocolate cookie recipe and shape it like this?
Thanks for your help...the link is below.
http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.fc77a0dbc44dd1611e3bf410b5900aa0/?vgnextoid=896f833827a71110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
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5 Comments:
Smitten Kitchen recently tried that same Martha Stewart recipe and agreed with you, but she listed a number of ways that the recipe can be salvaged. She also linked to another recipe to try instead.
You can find it all right here. Happy Pretzeling!
sheeats at 10:51AM on 12/10/07
Excellent! Thank you!
Potluckcraft at 11:40AM on 12/10/07
The first thing that is horribly, ridiculously wrong with that recipe is the 35 minute baking time, which is why I think the results were really dry. When I lowered it to 15 minutes, I ended up with a much more cookie-like confection--crisp exterior, slightly soft in the middle. You might even be able to lower it to 12, if you let them rest in the pan for 5 minutes while they cool, so their shapes can settle.
After that, I upped the cocoa, swapping out the same amount of flour. Even though I really don't like things overly sweet, I would definitely add more sugar next time, maybe an extra couple tablespoons of brown sugar, for more flavor. However, it might be worth it just to try another, more reliably flavorful chocolate cookie recipe, like the Dorie one I recommended (though haven't tried as a pretzel yet), and just use the pretzel technique from the original recipe.
They really are adorable, but the recipe is pitiful.
Deb Perelman at 12:27PM on 12/10/07
I saw Smitten Kitchen's post too...it made them look heavenly!
Hillary
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Chew on That at 12:49PM on 12/11/07
I made chocolate pretzels with Dorie's chocolate roll-out cookie recipe and it didn't work. They tasted great, but they didn't maintain their round, pretzel-y shape -- they just got all flat and cookie-like. I think there's a catch-22 here: more floury=more shapely but also more bland. I know it's past holiday gifting time, but I haven't given up! I'm going to try them again tonight with a different recipe and I'll post an update on my blog: www.notderbypie.blogspot.com.
rivka at 5:47PM on 12/27/07