The Vicarious Foodie recently discovered Wild Cherry M&Ms in her local store, and did what any good pastry chef would do when faced with a new product with much potential: she went to work!
VF found a Cooks Illustrated recipe for Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries, and smartly subbed the M&Ms for the cherry and chocolate pieces, but kept in the pecans.
She mentions that in most recipes, her cookies tend to spread out in the oven, but these look gorgeous, like they barely stretched an inch. (Maybe the oatmeal had something to do with it?)
Either way, I commend VF for being innovative. Plus, the chocolate pieces are a great contrast to the brownish cookie.
Here's VF's re-done recipe here.
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4-16-2008 @ 1:55PM
bloggersmosaic said...
thats just delicious
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4-16-2008 @ 3:52PM
Don said...
I saw this candy in my grocery yesterday. It is artificially flavored and colored. I wouldn't substitute real chocolate chunks in the Cook's Illustrated recipe if wild horses dragged me 10 miles by my tongue.
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4-17-2008 @ 3:10PM
noquarter said...
Don, one wonders why someone who has disdain for all artificial flavors and colors was in the candy aisle browsing products and reading their nutritional information in the first place.
Perhaps one has too much time on one's hands and chooses to spend it acting like a pompous douchebag.
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