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  • #3769367
    Adam Salinger
    BPL Member

    @asalinger

    Hi All,

    I’d love to know from anyone that might have some baking wisdom, how to take a cookie I love in the front country (gingerbread cookies) and spike up the calorie and fat content.  I jut don’t know baking and ingredients enough to understand how the changes I might make in ingredients or measurements make will affect the taste, texture, and overall taste.

    Here is the recipe I’m working with:

    1 cup butter softened
    ▢1 cup light brown sugar
    ▢1 large egg
    ▢1 cup molasses NOT blackstrap
    ▢1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar OR white wine vinegar
    ▢2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    Dry Ingredients:
    ▢5 cups flour
    ▢1 teaspoon baking soda
    ▢½ teaspoon salt
    Gingerbread Spice Mix:
    ▢1 tablespoon ground ginger
    ▢1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
    ▢½ teaspoon ground allspice
    ▢½ teaspoon ground cloves
    ▢¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

    Thanks in advance for your food related wisdom.

    :)

    #3769373
    Philip Tschersich
    BPL Member

    @philip-ak

    Locale: Kodiak Alaska

    Make ginger shortbread?

    Shortbread is a fairly durable, shelf stable, backcountry butter bomb. I would make a ‘ginger’ version of that.

    A basic shortbread recipe is simply:

    2 cups all purpose flour

    2 sticks butter (1 cup)

    1/2 cup of sugar

    1/2 teaspoon salt

    Just Google recipes online. To make them ‘ginger,’ just use your list of spices to add to the basic shortbread recipe.

    It’s incredibly simple to make and you just pack it into a baking dish, bake, and then cut it into rectangles (like brownies) while still warm. Then you can vacuum seal them and store them in the freezer for a long time until ready for use.

    #3769374
    Atif Khan
    BPL Member

    @atifethica-institute-2

    Short answer: more unsalted butter. This book is what you’re looking for: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

    She covers recipes and philosophy based on Weston Price’s research of 14 traditional societies and how leaving traditional preparation and ingredients for, basically, refined carbohydrates and packaged foods degenerated health over generations. If it can’t be packaged then it probably isn’t profitable. Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Dr. Catherine Shanahan covers the science.

    #3769446
    Rex Sanders
    BPL Member

    @rex

    how to take a cookie I love in the front country (gingerbread cookies) and spike up the calorie and fat content.

    Experiment: Add more fat (butter), bake, taste and inspect, repeat until unhappy, then back off one step. Don’t get hung up on following recipes precisely.

    Only you can judge how much butter or other fat is too much, across many factors including taste and gooeyness.

    If the cookies get too gooey or drippy, try adding a pure saturated fat like coconut oil instead of more butter. Which changes the taste and everything else.

    Foods that taste great in town sometimes taste foul after several days of consumption in the backcountry. Moderation in all most things.

    — Rex

    Cookie tasting: a tough job, but somebody has to do it :-)

    #3769488
    Justin W
    BPL Member

    @light2lighter

    I’m a fan of avocado oil over all other oils for higher heat purposes such as baking, sauteing, etc.  Reason being that it handles heat without degradation better than other oils/fats while being mostly mono saturated fat. And it has a fairly neutral taste which makes it versatile.

    And if a longer term trip, I would recommend drying the cookies out pretty well and then vacuum packing them for longevity.  Moisture, air/oxygen, and/or heat are the enemies of food and why they spoil. Really lowering the first two will go a long way towards preserving.  A lot less of a factor on winter or colder trips though.

    #3769489
    Jon Fong / Flat Cat Gear
    BPL Member

    @jonfong

    Locale: FLAT CAT GEAR

    Add bacon bits to your cookies.  Win-win.

    #3769490
    Justin W
    BPL Member

    @light2lighter

    But if you are set on butter, I would at least use ghee instead.  Higher calorie per volume (only very slightly) and keeps better–both because it is butter with the water removed. It also ups the smoke point of the oil significantly too.

    #3769735
    Sarah Kirkconnell
    BPL Member

    @sarbar

    Locale: Homesteading On An Island In The PNW

    Just remember….more fat affects the baking. More fat can cause spreading/flattening. IMO, find a higher fat keto recipe and you will fare better.

    #3769742
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    yeah, more butter makes it thin and crisp.  I have done that by mistake.

    But, maybe that’s still good eating.  I almost always eat my mistakes.

    It could change the baking time.  Make a few cookies, wait for them to cool, try them and adjust baking time if needed.

     

    #3769825
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    you could make butter brickle, for example

    https://www.landolakes.com/recipe/20267/spicy-almond-butter-brickle/

    2/3 cup butter to 1 cup sugar has a higher butter percentage

    that thought occurred to me from when I screwed up cookies and they seemed more like butter brickle

    #3769927
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Most keto recipes won’t really up the fat content, but rather lower the carb count (generally, in baking, by using sugar alcohols/substitutes instead of sugar), giving you a higher fat to carb ratio.

    Also, from my experience, trying to add fat through either more butter or oil will generally give you a very ‘greasy’ cookie, which can really make a mess while out backpacking.

    I’d leave the recipe alone, since you like it. You could always get some no-sugar, cinnamon-flavored nut butter in individual packets and make a sandwich out of two of the cookies and some of the nut butter ‘in the field’. That would easily add both calories and fat.

    I also think Philip’s idea of gingerbread shortbread could work quite well.

    #3769934
    Matthew / BPL
    Moderator

    @matthewkphx

    Yeah I like this plan of adding peanut/almond/sunflower butter to baked goods in the field. This has been a staple for a long time for good reason. It’s delicious.

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