Icebox Spirals and Bull's-Eyes (Pg 117)

Oh dear. Another disappointment. In the book these look so cool, and they seemed really interesting and fun to make.

They were indeed interesting to make. Fun? Not so much.

Admittedly the dough was really easy to work with, a great consistency for rolling out. Not too dry and not too sticky. But then comes the part of measuring rectangles and rolling logs and refrigerating and putting together and rolling and refrigerating and.....I'm tired just remembering it all.

The bull's eyes are made by rolling either the light or dark dough into a log, and then rolling the opposite dough into a rectangle large enough to roll around the log. I tried this two different ways. I tried it the way the book says, which is to first chill the log and the rectangle in the fridge. I also tried by just doing it as soon as I rolled them out. My way worked better. The issue was once the dough was chilled it was too hard to work with, so I couldn't wrap it around the log easily.

A similar challenge came with the spirals. The process is to make two rectangles of the same size, chill them, then lay one on top of the other and roll them into a log. Once again, once the dough was chilled and hard, it was difficult to roll.

Besides all that, they are log shaped and as we know my log shaped cookies never turn out to be actual circles, but more like rounded rectangles. As you can see in the pictures, these all came out looking a bit....strange. Some are big, some are small, some are round, some are rectangular. They're just all over the place.

Besides all that, they didn't even taste all that great. The raw dough actually tasted better. Something happened along the baking way that made them less flavorful. Some people seem to like them, but I'm not impressed.

Or I just don't like cookies anymore. Is that possible? Hmm.....


Yield:
Recipe predicts: About 5 dozen.
Actual: 7 1/2 dozen. Whoa.

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