Cookie Dough.

[Gingerbread Man]

Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream is a firm favourite in this household.

Now lets cut out the ice cream and get down to business...the cookie dough.

How do go about making this culinary delight?

David

[jimothy]

IIRC its in the Ben and Jerry's Ice cream cookbook

<RunsOffToKitchen>
<RunsBackWithBookInHand>

Right, this is in American units. Comes out quite nice according to MrsJimothy (I'm not a big cookie dough fan)

1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350F

Beat butter and and both sugars in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla and mix well
Mix flour, salt and baking soda in another bowl. Mix well with the batter until blended, then stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts

Mix small balls of this dough into your ice cream just before its set.

Let me know how it comes out...

[Gingerbread Man]

WALNUTS! I hate walnuts!

Thanks Jim. That's brilliant

I'll be making it soon enough, bar the walnuts of course. Wouldn't want them tainting it.

David

[Plotloss]

Or just buy the cookie dough in a can and dont follow the cooking instructions...

[jimothy]

Gingerbread Man said:

WALNUTS! I hate walnuts!

Thanks Jim. That's brilliant

I'll be making it soon enough, bar the walnuts of course. Wouldn't want them tainting it.

David

My pleasure.

Plotloss said:

Or just buy the cookie dough in a can and dont follow the cooking instructions...

But if you're doing this, you might as well buy the ice cream in the first place...

[Gingerbread Man]

Plotloss said:

Or just buy the cookie dough in a can and dont follow the cooking instructions...

I used to do this from Waitrose a few years back. Used to be able to feel the old ticker get slower the more you ate. You know you shouldn't but it's so moorish. Haven't seen it since those times.

Davith

[Gingerbread Man]

jimothy said:

IIRC its in the Ben and Jerry's Ice cream cookbook

<RunsOffToKitchen>
<RunsBackWithBookInHand>

Right, this is in American units. Comes out quite nice according to MrsJimothy (I'm not a big cookie dough fan)

1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350F <- I'm not much of a cook, so maybe a silly question but how long do they go in the oven for?

Beat butter and and both sugars in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla and mix well
Mix flour, salt and baking soda in another bowl. Mix well with the batter until blended, then stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts

Mix small balls of this dough into your ice cream just before its set.

Let me know how it comes out...

[jimothy]

Gingerbread Man said:

jimothy said:

IIRC its in the Ben and Jerry's Ice cream cookbook

<RunsOffToKitchen>
<RunsBackWithBookInHand>

Right, this is in American units. Comes out quite nice according to MrsJimothy (I'm not a big cookie dough fan)

1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350F <- I'm not much of a cook, so maybe a silly question but how long do they go in the oven for?

Beat butter and and both sugars in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla and mix well
Mix flour, salt and baking soda in another bowl. Mix well with the batter until blended, then stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts

Mix small balls of this dough into your ice cream just before its set.

Let me know how it comes out...

Sorry, typed this out with my brain not in gear...

No cooking required, so ignore this step - the ice cream recipe says make the cookie dough following the cookie recipe and use it raw, so I copied out the cookie recipe ignoring the cooking step, but forgot to remove the preheating step...

[Gingerbread Man]

Arrr so that would be where I went wrong....putting it in the oven

bks! The name 'Cookie Dough' and not just 'Cookie' should have make me think twice about the oven bit.


Please quiz your wife;

Okay so, we mixed it all up and started making balls out of the stuff. Still seemed gooey. To get this to set, do you put it in the fridge and it'll go to the more solid state I'm thinking of??

It tasted right but the consistency was wrong.


I'll start the second batch after Easter!

Thanks again.

[jimothy]

Yup, whack it in the fridge to set it before dropping it in!

[staceyb]

If you do cook them make sure you take them out of the oven when they are a touch under-done. Gives them that gooey texture.

[Gingerbread Man]

I didn't cook them this time! Just made balls as well as we could considering the consistency of freshly made cookie dough.

We then put these into the freezer for many an hour (over night).



First impressions:

Nice but missing something.

Not how I thought they'd be. I was expecting them harder/ more solid.


If anyone has a pot of the ice cream around, I'm sure I would make more sense.