Beer cookies a good idea?
I am not sure this is a good idea, but I found a recipe for cookies made with beer on the Food Network Web site.
You take two bottles of Belgian beer (the recipe recommends Hoegaarden) and reduce it over medium heat to about 1/3 of its original volume.
The beer will, the recipe warned, begin to "aggressively foam" and produce very big bubbles.
Once the beer has been reduced, it is allowed to cool then mixed with conventional cookie ingredients, such as butter, sugar, egg and vanilla.
Eventually flour and orange zest are added.
The recipe also called for a favorite ingredient in Belgian brews, coriander.
Why is it that brewers of Belgian beers are so drawn to coriander?
Has anyone ever made cookies with beer?
How did they turn out?
This, I assume, is not something you can give to the kids.
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Comments
There are many Stout brownie recipes on the web. Most suggest Guinness, but if you use Young's Double Chocolate, or another delicious chocolate stout (Southern Tier Chokolat, anybody) the brownies are delicious.
Posted by: It's Me | July 28, 2009 11:16 AM
While I've not had experience with either, usually when cooking with beer the alcohol cooks mostly out of the liquid leaving the tasty flavor. Try one first, but should be safe for kids.
Posted by: John | July 28, 2009 3:08 PM
I made beer cookies from a "Down Home Trailer Park" cookbook. Not good at all. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
But ... I may give these a try. Most of the Food Network recipes I've tried turned out very well.
Posted by: David | July 28, 2009 4:50 PM
I have made cookies with the spent grains left over from brewing. Tasty.
Posted by: David | July 28, 2009 5:11 PM
I made this recipe several months ago. The cookies were good, and didn't taste like beer, but I won't make it again. It was too much effort, and my house smelled awful afterwards because of boiling the beer. From now on, I drink beer and eat cookies, separately.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 29, 2009 5:56 PM
Beer cookies, no. Beer ice cream, yes. I recently stopped in at The Bent Spoon in Princeton, New Jersey, and was delighted to find two flavors made with beer. The Jersey Honey Monkey, featuring local honey and Victory's Golden Monkey tripel, was the clear winner of the two. The beery flavor was pleasantly apparent. Dark Philosophy, a dark chocolate prepared with cherries and Ommegang's Three Philosophers quadrupel, was fine, but didn't exactly scream out, "There's beer in here." The Hoegaarden cookies might make a great pairing with either flavor.
Posted by: Tokyo Wayne | August 2, 2009 3:10 PM