Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies
The idea seemed simple enough: add crushed candy cane to chocolate chip cookie dough. For this experiment, I used my standard chocolate chip cookie recipe.
I had high hopes for this batch (see fig 1.) of hybrid candy cane chocolate chip cookies. As you will see, the results differed from my expectations and proved my hypothesis, that adding crushed candy cane would create a simple Christmas variation of this classic cookie, very wrong. We have to be honest when our plans go awry.
Figure 1.
The candy cane bits melted during the baking process, leaving gaping holes in the cookies, and adhered to the cookie sheet which resulted in fractured cookies when attempting to move them to the cooling rack.
Thankfully the candy cane modification was only added to twelve cookies (see fig 2). The rest of the dough served as a control group and yielded wonderful and normal chocolate chip cookies.
Figure 2. The results of Trial 1 candy cane cookies
Figure 3.
