Molasses Cookie Sandwiches

Name: Molasses Cookie Sandwiches
Prep time: 10 h
Cook time: 10 h
Total time: 10 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters rendered bacon fat; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters bread flour; 1 stick butter, softened; 177 milliliters cake flour; 12 servings Cooked bacon, crumbled, for serving; 1 egg; 8 eggs, separated; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 Tbsp ground ginger; 0 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 710 milliliters heavy cream; 79 milliliters molasses; 1 teaspoons salt; 296 milliliters sugar; 355 milliliters sugar; 12 servings Extra sugar, to coat cookies

One portion of this dish contains approximately 10g of protein, 52g of fat, and a total of 800 calories. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have eggs, sugar, ground cloves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 10 hours.

Instructions

Cream together the sugar and butter in a bowl.

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Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Add the molasses and egg and mix until thoroughly combined.

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Molasses

Egg

In a medium bowl, add the cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, salt and spices and whisk together.

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Baking Soda

Cake Flour

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Salt

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Whisk

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Pour into the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Scoop the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap and form a log. Refrigerate and chill the dough for at least 1 hour.

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Dough

Wrap

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While the dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

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Dough

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Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator and form into golf ball-size balls.

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Dough

Roll in the sugar to coat and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

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Sugar

Roll

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Bake for 4 minutes, then rotate the cookie sheet and then bake for another 4 to 5 minutes.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Remove the baked cookies from the oven and cool.

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Use a 4-inch ring cutter to cut out rings of the Bacon Caramel Semifreddo and place on a cookie. Then add the crumbled bacon and sandwich with another cookie to make ice cream sandwiches.

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Ice Cream Sandwiches

Real Bacon Pieces

Caramel

Bacon

In a large bowl, whip the heavy cream to stiff peaks. Set aside to chill in the fridge. Using an electric mixer, whip the egg whites on low until frothy. Increase the speed to medium and slowly add 3/4 cup of sugar. Whip to stiff, glossy peaks.

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Heavy Cream

Egg Whites

Sugar

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Meanwhile, begin whipping the egg yolks on medium speed. Slowly add the bacon fat as the yolks begin to increase in volume. In a small saucepot, bring the remaining sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil over medium-high heat. Allow the sugar mixture to cook until it reaches 245 degrees F.

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Bacon Drippings

Egg Yolk

Sugar

Water

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Remove the sugar from the heat and slowly stream to combine with the whipped yolk mixture. Whip the yolks mixture until it triples in volume and cools completely.

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Sugar

Egg Yolk

Once all three mixtures are prepared fold one-third meringue into the yolk mixture. Then gently fold the yolk mixture back into the remaining meringue in two equal additions. Just before it is completely combined, begin to fold in the whipped cream. Continue to gently fold together until completely incorporated.

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Whipped Cream