xp: Help! Anyone made the white chocolate cherry shortbread cookies from Pinterest?

Passanie

I saw these all over Pinterest (from bhg.com) and they looked great. But butter is the only thing close to liquid in it. You're supposed to knead them to form a ball of dough, but all I get is powder. Any idea what I can do? Should I add an egg? It needs liquid somehow. I did let it sit for a while I did something else. Maybe the butter go too warm? What should I do?

 

sm23

I see an egg yolk and vanilla extract in the recipe... Is that not helping? Also, the one you liked to is listed from Bon Appetit so I'm wondering if you mean something different?

Passanie

Arg, posted the wrong link. That's the other stuff I'm making, which is great, by the way. These cookies are what I was talking about. I'm going to try to add a little bit of the maraschino cherry juice and see if that helps.

hannikan

Those are pretty! I hope the cherry juice works!

sm23

Passanie:

Arg, posted the wrong link. That's the other stuff I'm making, which is great, by the way. These cookies are what I was talking about. I'm going to try to add a little bit of the maraschino cherry juice and see if that helps.

OK I get it now. I don't see anything in there except the butter, shortening and tiny bit of moisture from the almond extract that would help keep the dry ingredients together... Yet there are some great reviews of the cookies. I read a few of them and a couple of people did add some liquid from the cherries, so try that (I don't think it would be terrible). It does sound like this is a shortbread-like cookie, so it's probably meant to be pretty dry. Hope it works out!

Passanie

Well, it seemed to. I had to add a LOT of it, like at least 10 tablespoons. And they taste OK. So not worth the effort. Annoyed that the recipe seems so popular on Pinterest. Maybe I should go around warning people on Pinterest?

hannikan

Yeah maybe the dough was supposed to be crumbly if they're shortbread.

Passanie

Crumbly is one thing. Powder is another.

sm23

Passanie:

Well, it seemed to. I had to add a LOT of it, like at least 10 tablespoons. And they taste OK. So not worth the effort. Annoyed that the recipe seems so popular on Pinterest. Maybe I should go around warning people on Pinterest?

You know, I've seen a lot of recipes on Pinterest that get repinned again and again. I think with some of those, people don't actually open up the recipe and read the reviews (I have on a few occasions, and they weren't great) or make them before repinning. Sorry it didn't work out    I guess you know for next time.

EmmieB

sm23:

Passanie:

Well, it seemed to. I had to add a LOT of it, like at least 10 tablespoons. And they taste OK. So not worth the effort. Annoyed that the recipe seems so popular on Pinterest. Maybe I should go around warning people on Pinterest?

You know, I've seen a lot of recipes on Pinterest that get repinned again and again. I think with some of those, people don't actually open up the recipe and read the reviews (I have on a few occasions, and they weren't great) or make them before repinning. Sorry it didn't work out    I guess you know for next time.

i find that to be the case a lot. there's a lot of "ooo, that's pretty!" and not a lot of follow through beyond that.