Thursday, January 24, 2008

Vampire sugar cookies

My friend brought this recipe to my attention:

http://www.popularcookierecipes.com/Sugar.html

Just a simple sugar cooke recipe, right? Looks so on first glance. But look again.

Go on, I'll wait.

That's right, the recipe calls for 8 cloves of garlic. Chopped, as if it makes a difference.

Now, I'm all for using garlic in wierd ways. Chocolate covered garlic and garlic honey ice cream are two recipes that I've made, and enjoyed, before. But this has got to be a mistake.

If you look down in the recipe instructions, there's no other mention of the garlic. This makes it pretty clear to me that it's a mistake in the recipe--perhaps someone mixed up a garlic bread recipe with a sugar cookie recipe.

Just another reason why you should 1. Not trust every recipe you find on the 'net, and 2. Read your recipe thoroughly before starting. I've got to imagine that one or two unlucky people chopped up the garlic before realizing the error, or, even worse, actually used the garlic in the recipe.

In related news: I'm proud to say that if you type in the phrase "sugar cookies with garlic" into Google, my blog is the first search result that pops up. Makes me giddy.

2 comments:

R. Glipglorp said...

And you mean to tell me you aren't dying to try out garlic sugar cookies... with bacon salt?!?

It would either be rancid... or glorious!

Carrie P said...

It had crossed my mind, but I hadn't thought seriously about it until I found a real recipe for garlic chip cookies. I'll have to see if I have time to mess with the recipes in Feb. for a possible blog post, like a test-kitchen of a few different garlic cookie recipes (yes, there's more than one. Sort of.)