Tuesdays With Dorie - Granola Grabbers
Well, let’s see here. Today’s recipe was Granola Grabbers. I followed the recipe to the letter, even making a last-minute run for coconut.
I plopped my cookies out onto the parchment-ed tray, and I stuck my trays in the oven. Easy. So easy. And if the dough was any indication, these cookies were going to be damn good.
I had quite a bit of extra dough, and I began to toy with ideas. EXPERIMENTATION! It’s like I’m back in college again.
Experiment #1: Microwaving. I formed a ball of dough onto a microwave-safe plate, and I nuked it for thirty seconds. Mistake. The center was burnt to a smoking crisp, and the outside was still malformed, soft dough. I tried to eat the whole thing, but after my first bite of burnt…well, it was trash time.
Experiment #2: THE MONSTER COOKIE. I was going to bake the rest of my dough into one big monster cookie. This was destined for disaster, as I’d have no idea how to adjust temperature or baking time.
This experiment was not to be. My first batch of cookies came out with burnt bottoms, and I was going to have to use the rest of the dough to make some edible food. Bummmmmer!
I adjusted the baking time to eight minutes, and the cookies came out just fine. So I had thirty burnt-ass cookies and ten decent ones. I guess my plans to offload tons of cookies to girlfriend and work fell short.
If you divided your batch into the recommended number of cookies (40), here are your nutritional stats. PER COOKIE. Boy, this sure makes the eight burnt cookies I ate (had to save the rest of my family from such a grisly fate) that much more depressing.
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Serving Size 30.0g
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Amount Per Serving
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Calories
141
Calories from Fat
75
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% Daily Value*
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Total Fat
8.3g
13%
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Saturated Fat
3.4g
17%
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Cholesterol
15mg
5%
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Sodium
49mg
2%
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Total Carbohydrates
14.5g
5%
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Dietary Fiber
1.5g
6%
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Sugars
7.5g
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Protein
2.9g
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* Based on a 2000 calorie diet
Nutritional details are an estimate and should only be used as a guide for approximation |
August 19th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I came here first to see what the nutritional facts would be, and, well, gosh. But hey - you took one for the team there when you ate them. And I’m all for experimenting with dough. How about a granola grabber crumble on that swordfish filet?
August 19th, 2008 at 8:28 am
The things we do to protect our loved ones… =) I definitely wouldn’t have thought of microwaving this dough, and it sounds like that’s a good thing. The top picture looks fantastic, though. =)
August 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
burnt bottoms, don’t you hate that? not sure i really want to know the calorie count on these babies, so i took my glasses off when i got to that part of your post.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:53 am
You microwaved them???
Dude!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Your photo is so artistic - love the book-as-prop! That calorie count is just depressing - what did you use for the granola in the calorie counter? I’m hoping that homemade granola would cut the fat and calorie total…
Nancy
The Dogs Eat the Crumbs
August 19th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Seriously, you have to stop with the calorie counts. They’re killing me! I loved these cookies as well. Yum!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I was really rooting for the monster cookie too. Oh well, there will be more left over cookie dough in your future I’m sure.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Those look great! Sorry the first batch got burnt on the bottom.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Great top picture! Sorry about the burning problem:-(
August 19th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hello? You are the devil.
Stop with the caloric content for Christmas sake!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:25 am
One of these days, all of this creativity is going to pay off. Hopefully this will happen in time to keep you out of the asylum.
What do you use to generate your nutrition analysis?
August 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Bummer about the burnt ones, you’ll have to try them again sometime. Never thought to try microwaving them - I guess that’s a good thing considering your results. Kelly is totally right… one of these days you’re going to try something that is going to be genius and you’ll go down in history…
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Can I make a suggestion? How about putting nutritional values after a cut so I don’t have to see them!?! LOL. But seriously? 141 calories per cookie? I thought for sure it would be healthier b/c of the granola. That might be me doing some wishful thinking though. Nuts. (Pun intended) Sorry about the burnage but I love your stories so its all good.
Clara @ iheartfood4thought
August 19th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I love your experiment cookies, that’s awesome. You should hide that nutritional info, though!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Too funny about microwaving them - did you do it at full power? Maybe half power would have worked better…
August 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Only you would bake cookies in the microwave.
Too funny. Try doubling your cookie sheets if you have problems with burnt bottoms.
Glad you liked the ones that turned out, cheers!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Microwave? Only you! Your cookies look great!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Oh, man I’m not sure I wanted to know how bad these seemingly good cookies were for me. I love your smokin lava center cookie experiment.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
if you don’t experiment, you will never learn anything, roght? your “normal” cookies look like they were damn good!
August 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I love that you experimented with the recipe. One never knows when something unexpectedly wonderful will happen. Your cookies (unburnt) sound/look wonderful
August 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Dude - you are learning so much. Even when it doesn’t turn out “as planned”, you gain knowledge… and skilz
Have a delicious day!!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Hooray for experimentation! I predict you will be the one to come up with a microwavable cookie recipe.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
these cookies just can’t be ugly.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Look at you, taking one for the team, eating all of the burnt cookies! But seriously, I laugh when people call these healthy. I’m like, “Hello! There are 14 TABLESPOONS OF BUTTER!”
August 20th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Yummy! Too bad the nuking didn’t turn out…..would have been a great idea to take to work and have fresh baked cookies.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Oh nooo. Nutritional information?! I would be a lot more interested in the nutritional information if I didn’t have a carefully regimented cookie-eating program going these past few days. And I didn’t even like them that much! All the same, it’s hard to say no to a cookie, even a mediocre one.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
EXPERIMENTATION! It’s like I’m back in college again.
this line hasn’t gotten enough credit.. - bravo, sir, very well played..
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 am
I think the cookies in picture look pretty darned good. Sorry about the burnt ones, though.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:37 am
I’m glad you got some decent cookies out of this experience, because they were darn tasty!
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