Comments on: Two-Way Chocolate Whoopie Pies http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928 A Batch of Cookies (Almost) Every Day Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anna http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-21386 Anna Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:40:54 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928#comment-21386 Hi Peggy, Most grocery stores sell Hershey Dark. Good luck with the next batch! Hi Peggy,

Most grocery stores sell Hershey Dark. Good luck with the next batch!

]]> By: Peggy http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-21380 Peggy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:56:58 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928#comment-21380 ONe more Question can you find Dutch Chocolate in the grocery store? Thanks ONe more Question can you find Dutch Chocolate in the grocery store?
Thanks

]]> By: Peggy http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-21379 Peggy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:54:18 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928#comment-21379 Thank You for your help. I will have to get some Hersey's Dark Chocolate and try it again. It maybe a few days but I will let you know how they come out. Thank You again Thank You for your help. I will have to get some Hersey’s Dark Chocolate and try it again. It maybe a few days but I will let you know how they come out.
Thank You again

]]> By: Anna http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-21375 Anna Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:30:45 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928#comment-21375 Hi Peggy, I'm sorry you didn't have any luck with this recipe. Believe it or not, the cocoa might have been the culprit. In some recipes, swapping out Dutch for Natural (the kind you used) or vice versa affects the leavening. Dutch cocoa has less acid than natural, so maybe the natural cocoa you used (which has more acid) made the batter too acidic and the cookies rose too fast and fell? Not sure. But this recipe is based on one from King Arthur so it should have worked. I will re-test it myself. But it's true that swapping natural and Dutch cocoa makes a difference. For instance, I have a recipe for Tex Mex Chocolate Cookies. If I make them with Dutch cocoa, they come out flat, but if I make them with natural, the come out nice and thick. It's actually the opposite of the situation you encountered and the recipes are both different, but the point is it makes a difference. When a recipe calls for Dutch chocolate cocoa, I usually use Hershey's Dark which is pretty easy to find. Hi Peggy,

I’m sorry you didn’t have any luck with this recipe. Believe it or not, the cocoa might have been the culprit. In some recipes, swapping out Dutch for Natural (the kind you used) or vice versa affects the leavening. Dutch cocoa has less acid than natural, so maybe the natural cocoa you used (which has more acid) made the batter too acidic and the cookies rose too fast and fell? Not sure. But this recipe is based on one from King Arthur so it should have worked. I will re-test it myself.

But it’s true that swapping natural and Dutch cocoa makes a difference. For instance, I have a recipe for Tex Mex Chocolate Cookies. If I make them with Dutch cocoa, they come out flat, but if I make them with natural, the come out nice and thick. It’s actually the opposite of the situation you encountered and the recipes are both different, but the point is it makes a difference.

When a recipe calls for Dutch chocolate cocoa, I usually use Hershey’s Dark which is pretty easy to find.

]]> By: Peggy http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-21373 Peggy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:19:13 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=928#comment-21373 Hi Your whoopie pie's look excellent. I don't know what I did wrong with the two way Chocolate whoopie pies but mine came out flat and they were not cooked in the 12-15 minutes that the recipe said. I didn't use dutch chocolate - I used Hersey's baking chocolate. What is Dutch Chocolate? I guess this recipe isn't for me. Someone else will probably have better lucky with it. Instead of throwing out the batch I made - I added more Hersey's chocolate and added some walnuts and Chocolate chips and cooked them for 20 minutes and they came out good. Hi
Your whoopie pie’s look excellent.
I don’t know what I did wrong with the two way Chocolate whoopie pies but mine came out flat and they were not cooked in the 12-15 minutes that the recipe said. I didn’t use dutch chocolate – I used Hersey’s baking chocolate. What is Dutch Chocolate? I guess this recipe isn’t for me. Someone else will probably have better lucky with it.

Instead of throwing out the batch I made – I added more Hersey’s chocolate and added some walnuts and Chocolate chips and cooked them for 20 minutes and they came out good.

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