Deathly Hallows Cookies

Rosmerta's Recipes - Deathly Hallows Cookies

Next time you attend a Harry Potter party or decide to just sit at home and watch a Harry Potter dvd, be sure to make these delicious shortbread cookies.
Recipe was sent to us by Mary who found the generic recipe on the Craftinomican website, Mary just adjusted it for a DH theme.


Ingredients:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter, softened
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• a clean bottlecap or other small circular cut-out device
• cookie cutter

Directions:

Step 1: Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

Step 2: In the bowl of a stand mixer (or just use a hand mixer and a large bowl of your choice), whip together your butter and brown sugar.

Step 3: Very slowly add the flour until all ingredients are fully incorporated.

Step 4: Place the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until the dough is smooth (should not take more than a minute). Roll the dough to about 1/3" thick.

Step 5: Cut out triangle shapes using the cookie cutter or a knife.

Step 6: Press the bottlecap or other circular object into the dough in the style of the 'Deathly Hallows' symbol. Carve a line down the middle with a knife to create the wand part of the symbol.

Step 7: Place onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or wax paper). These cookies don't spread out in the oven so feel free to put them quite close together. Bake these in your 300 degree oven for about 20 minutes, until slightly golden.

Step 8: Allow to cool slightly and then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.

Step 9: As with all shortbread, you can eat them plain, give them a sweet frosting glaze, or sandwich them together with some chocolate or caramel. These are really quick and tasty.

Recipe from http://www.mugglenet.com/misc/rosmertas/dhcookies.shtml

Reflection

1)What went well

Some things that went well with our baking were we all did our parts to get the ingredients necessary for our cookies. We all took turns mixing and kneading the dough and cut out cookie shapes   

2)What didn’t  go so well

The things that didn’t go so well were the dough and our oven.  The problem with our dough was that it was too sticky and it took us 20 minutes to get it right. The problem with the oven was that it turned itself off somehow. In result of making us stay after school a bit.

3)What would you do differently

Something I would do differently would probably pay more attention to how we were making our dough. Also try not to rush. When sort of rushed it and the cookies didn’t come out fully cooked.

4)What did you learn

During this baking process we learned how to mix dough and knead dough. Also that not enough flower will make the dough more sticky and harder to work with.

Healthey Oven Baked Fries

Healthy Oven Fries

Crisp outside and moist inside, these easy fries appeal to the most discriminating aficionado.

Ingredients

1)     3 baking potatoes , (unpeeled)3 3baking potatobaking potatoes, (unpeeled)

2)     3/4 tsp chili powder 3/4 3/4tsp tspchili powder

3)     3/4 tsp paprika 3/4 3/4tsp tsppaprika

4)     1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 1tbsp tbspvegetable oil

5)     Salt Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

Place baking sheet in 450°F (230°C) oven for 5 minutes or until hot. Meanwhile, cut each potato lengthwise into desired shapes. Rinse with water and dry with paper towels. Place in bowl and toss with oil, chili powder, paprika salt and pepper. Sprinkle with oil; toss. Bake in single layer on baking sheet for 15 minutes; turn and bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until crisp and golden brown.

Recipe originally found at http://www.canadianliving.com/food/healthy_oven_fries.php and adapted for the classroom by Mrs. Gelowitz.

1)   What went well?

The things that went well for us were that we cut our potatoes pretty neat and even. We all cut our own potatoes into our desired shape and use the knifes skills we learned in class. We made various shapes of fries such as wedges, stick fries and chips.

2)   What didn’t go well

The things that didn’t go so well were when I was going to take the fries out to be flipped, I forgot to open the oven door a bit to let the heat out. In result of burning my face. Also when I went to flip the fries, I flipped some of the fries with my fingers and I ended up burning my hand.

3)   What would you do differently?

The things I would do differently would probably be to make more shapes of the fries because I would’ve had more practice cutting the potatoes into different shapes using different cuts. I would also have added some ketchup with my fries.

4)   What did you learn

The things I learned were how to make fries and a lot of knife skills. We learned how to use a Santoku knife. This knife id really a neat knife because you can use it to pickup what you cut. It also looks really cool. The videos we watched in class taught us a lot of useful knife techniques.