The First Pocky Attempt
Dough: Basic Animal cracker recipe (
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Animal-Crackers/Detail.aspx)
Chocolate: Melted semi-sweet chocolate with a bit of butter
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Here's the ingredients for the dough. The honey's in a Zip-Loc because I cracked open the bear accidentally. Easy enough stuff.
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Mixing the dough. The oats were blended in a blender, but don't mix the entire dough in there. It doesn't work out. Amateur mistake ._.
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This is the dough rolled out. You can see how the oats are in the dough. I think it made it too grainy and elastic.
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The cookie strips were cut by hand. I cut them thick at first, but then I got it down to a more manageable size.
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The cookie dough only puffed up in a few areas, thank goodness. A test cookie showed a lot of puffing.
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Final product: full shot. This was very time-consuming work. The chocolate didn't work out too well.
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Close up on the final product. In all, it's delicious, but the cookies are lumpy, rather unpleasant looking, and messy. It still worked.
I guess if I make another batch, I'll post the results. This was an easy recipe, and if you want to try, feel free. It's not pretty, but it's tasty!