Quick post today to tell you about a little experiment in the kitchen. I made some chocolate and blackerry cupcakes recently and had some leftover frosting. I've used leftover frosting to make cookies previously and as I've never had a blackberry cookie I thought it would be interesting to try. The frosting is made of blackberry puree, icing sugar and butter. Butter and sugar are basic ingredients for cookies so I added in flour and and an egg. The mixture then looked a little grey so I added a handful of fresh blackberries as well which I managed to get in the reduced aisle for 10p a box! It gave the mixture a lovely purple hue and boosted the blacberry flavour. I added in about 50g of white chocolate chips to give some contrast and sweetness. The cookie dough was really soft - in hindsight I should have added more flour but I baked them anyway and they turned out like soft baked cookies. They tasted like a cross between a cookie and a cake. It was slightly crispy around the edges but soft in the middle. The flavour combination of blackberry and white chocolate was delicious! I will now have to experiment with making actual blackberry cookies. Has anyone tried a blackberry cookie before?
I'm sending this to the No Waste Food Challenge guest hosted this month by Claire from Foodie Quine on behalf of Elizabeth from Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary. This recipe uses up leftover blackberry frostings and part of a reduced box of blackberries which have just gone past their sell by date.
I'm also sending it to Credit Crunch Munch as this is quite a frugal recipe using leftovers and store cupboard ingredients. The challenge is hosted by Helen from Fuss Free Flavours and Camilla from Fab Food 4 All.
leftover blackberry frosting 
adding a handful of fresh blackberries as the mixture looked a little grey
adding in white chocolate chips Blackberry and white chocolate cookies! 
they look incredible and what a genius way to use up that frosting. I need these in my life!
ReplyDeleteThey were really tasty!
DeleteWhat a clever idea -I love it!
ReplyDeleteLeft over frosting in cookies makes perfect sense - I've been meaning to experiment for ages, I usually bung in the freezer and then eat it from the tub with a spoon when I run out of ice cream! Well done for making the recipe work and for linking to #creditcrunchmunch
ReplyDeleteLeftover frosting cookies are brilliant. I've made quite a few now and sometimes I'll make extra frosting so I have some leftover!
DeleteThese sound awesome. I like the idea of a cookie cake hybrid. I'd like to try making cookies with leftover frosting but whenever I have leftover icing I just tend to eat it! Haha, I'm such a pig.
ReplyDeleteHaha I know the feeling ... sometimes I make extra frosting just so I can have leftover frosting!
DeleteGreat idea, but I never have leftover frosting! LOL Thanks for linking up to the #NoWasteFoodChallenge
ReplyDeleteHa ha I know the feeling :)
DeleteA perfect No Waste Food Challenge entry, this! What a creative way to use up that last little dollop of frosting! Yum!
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