So I made the Chocolate Chip Cookies & my station partner Sihle made the Langues De Chat Chocolate Dipped Biscuits. However, we both helped each other during both the processes - team work you know?
To be honest, the Langues De Chat Chocolate Dipped recipe was a flop. I mean it supposed to work, but it didn't. My Chef Lecturer, Chef Julia is currently away due to health reasons so we have Chef Afzal who is in charge of us and he also couldn't figure out why this recipe wasn't working. Well, some recipes flop due to the climate, ingredients manufactured by different companies & so on. It can work in some parts of the world but might not work in other parts of the world. However, it tasted GOOD.
As for the Chocolate Chip Cookies, I had a lot of fun as I used biscuit cutters in the shape of MINI BUTTERFLIES AND HEARTS :D The recipe said you should place spoonfuls on a baking tray and press it down till about 5mm thick & then bake - that was just too boring for me.
I shall let the pictures say the rest! :)
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| My messy station whilst making the Chocolate Chip Cookies! At this stage, I just started cutting out the butterfly shaped cookies. |
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| All my Mise-en-place done for the Chocolate Chip Cookies. Mise-en-place is basically the preparation for whatever you need to do for the recipe so for example measuring and placing all the ingredients needed in front of you for the recipe and so on. Mise-en-place MUST be done beforehand. |
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| The molds I used to cut the heart & butterfly shaped cookies out :) |
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Heart shaped Chocolate Chip Cookies (some with a white chocolate chip on top) ready to go into the oven.
Out the oven and busy cooling down on a wire rack.
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This was what the Langues De Chat Chocolate Dipped Biscuits looked like at the end. Sihle did a great job as they really tasted good. As you can see, they were dipped in chocolate on the ends. We melted some dark chocolate for this.
The end product :) Next time I would melt some white chocolate chips and use a writing nozzle to pipe details and just some outline of the wings etc on the butterfly cookies. The reason I didn't do it this time was because the chocolate chip cookies were already so 'chocolate-tey' due to it having white chocolate and dark chocolate roughly chopped in the batter. However, if you are a die hard rich chocolatey fan, then piping white chocolate to make the butterflies look a bit more pretty than they already are and to add another texture of chocolate is the way to go for you.
These Chocolate Chip Cookies & Langues De Chat Chocolate Dipped Biscuits was made by a fellow student in my Pastry Class named Santhil Ramdhani. The reason why I'm posting a picture of his food stuff is because I found his end product so cute. He didn't use a cutter but he just created simple balls for his Chocolate Chip Cookies and then pressed his thumb in the middle and placed some white chocolate chips. I asked what it was, he said, "NESTS". How cute? It does look like nests with little eggs in it. You could see he was in the Easter mood LOL.
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