In looking at upcoming holidays, I discovered that tomorrow is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day. Being a sucker for a fun holiday, and a big fan of raisins dunked in dark chocolate, I decided to try an experiment in honor of this holiday.
My chosen field of experimentation was baking and the specific experiment was to bake cookies with chocolate covered raisins. I simply used the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe and substituted 2 boxes of dark chocolate Raisinets (3.5 oz each) for the chocolate chips. Using baking stones instead of cookie sheets allowed them to puff nicely.
After tasting a cookie I declared them good enough to serve to the company we were having that evening.
After dinner I served the cookies without telling anyone what they were. The only information they were given was that the cookies were not chocolate chip and that they did contain chocolate. Since every last one of the 2 dozen cookies that were served disappeared in a flash, I’d have to say that people liked them.
I’m declaring the experiment a success, although I have to admit that my sweet tooth still has a preference for good old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies (w
ith a box of dark chocolate Raisinets on the side:)
nice work thank you