I've been interested in something like a cookie lately, but the store-
bought lowcarb ones are full of maltitol and they always have a sort
of pressed milkcarton consistency. I really didn't have much to lose
trying to make my own, but I can't really cook. I basically employ
the sandcastle technique in the kitchen and come up with disasters of
various proportions ranging from minor to epic.
Sometimes the disaster is edible, sometimes it ends up in the garbage
disposal, which is what happened last week with a chemically
undefinable substance that used to be peanut butter and baker's
chocolate.
This week though, I got this idea:
Two cups of vanilla whey protein
1/2 cup of peanut butter
2 eggs
a couple tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup of almond meal
splenda.
I mushed all this up together til I got something that resembled
cookie dough. I didn't want to mess with baking soda or baking powder
because I've actually made things explode before with that stuff.
I dropped clumps of the batter on a buttered baking sheet and had it
in the oven at 325 for twenty minutes. Came out okay, although instead
of flattening and spreading they came out less like "cookies" and more
like "snack balls".
This is almost as horrible as it sounds but they had potential. They
were truly no worse-tasting than those Carbolite cookies that used to
be around. They needed a little manual flattening to seem like a
cookies, a little sweetening and possibly some maple flavoring. Or, if
you just preferred the salty balls flavor you could put them in muffin
tins and get that great Carbolite muffin experience of yore.
Object: To produce a cookielike object using feasible ingredients.
Method: c allowed in kitchen for one hour with no supervision and only
blunt utensils
Result: South Park Salty Balls
Conclusion: At least there were no explosions.
c
Where there are cheesy puffs there gotta be snack balls.