Boiled in Oil

[azurelunatic]

I just went ahead and constructed the project that's been sitting in the bottom of my refrigerator for a while. Just on the sort of impulse that takes several days to premeditate.

Now that I have the steps down, the construction of cookie puffs is reasonably simple, and takes me quite a bit under an hour. Some of the steps made it a lot more swift: the chilled state of the cookie dough, the slicing instead of balling, the use of spoon and fork to handle the cream cheese, the mass stepwise assembly, the wide oil pan instead of a narrow one-at-a-time unit, and the specialized frying tongs.

I'm thinking that this is just evil and decadent enough to be a trademark con food of mine, actually. I also wonder how the uncooked things respond to freezing; in at least theory, they should do excellently well, and if I should mass-produce them before con-time, take them to (a local) con while frozen, then employ an accomplice with a portable electric fryer and an appropriate amount of cooking oil and a shaker of powdered sugar...

*giggle* I think I should make an equal number of friends and enemies. Friends, because the stuff is wicked good. Enemies, because the stuff is just plain wicked.

But yes, refrigerated slicing of cookie dough is in order. One could probably improve the recipe by making the dough personally rather than purchasing it premade...

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Those sound to kill for.

[azurelunatic]

Ingredients:

Wonton wrappers
Cookie dough (chocolate chip)
(optional) Cream cheese
Boiling oil
Water
(optional) powdered sugar


Tools:

Vessel and heat source for boiling oil.
Tools to safely put items in and take items out of the boiling oil.
Assembly area.
Cooling and draining area.
Vessel for holding water
Recommended:
knife for dividing cookie dough
spoon and fork for scooping and placing cream cheese


Method:

Chill cookie dough for easier division.
Divide cookie dough into pieces of a size to be fully wrapped by the wonton wrappers, with room for sufficient wrapper overlap.
Scoop appropriate-sized portion of cream cheese. Place on top of cookie dough.
Wrap dough and cream in wonton wrapper, sealing edges by moistening and pressing together.
Heat oil to frying temperature.
Carefully immerse uncooked puff in oil. Leave until golden and crispy, but not brown or black.
Flip if necessary.
Remove and place on cooling/draining stage.
Sprinkle finely divided powdered sugar on hot puffs.
Allow to cool until no longer dangerous to touch or eat.

When done properly, the cookie dough inside has near-liquid chocolate, and is on the raw side of "rare" cookie dough, the stage that one wishes one could eat them out of the oven, but they're not solid enough.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

*swoon* Sounds godlike. Far too labor-intensive for me, though.

[azurelunatic]

This is why I am contemplating the possibility of mass-producing the dough form, then freezing them, and boiling them in oil later, for devious purposes.

I suppose speculating upon the shipping of said frozen delights is an exercise best left to when I'm not quite so giddy with assorted giddy-making things including parmesan cheese.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

This goes into the hardcopy file.

[azurelunatic]

*bobs a curtsey* Glad to have put together something enjoyable! They disappeared quickly when I made them for the gaming crowd a few weeks ago.

[azurelunatic]

As a slightly older entity, my signature Big Party Food is chocolate dipped strawberries.