Chief Longwind: Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! I can't wait to give this a shot. I'll probably have to wait until Sat to try it out but I'll let you know how it turns out.
BakeChef: I've been asking myself that same question all day. I'm wondering if maybe they use a flour icing and they don't feel the need to mention regular sugar since they have brown sugar on the list??? I really have no idea. I do know he told me he uses a high emoltion (sp?) shortening in the icing and I just assumed he used powder sugar (it was before I got the ingredients list), however I've tried making the icing with high ratio shortening and powder sugar and it's different than his. Too sweet. I started to call them back today and ask about the icing but I was afraid that would be pushing my luck, lol. So I made a flour icing using water and regular sugar. It's okay but still not like theirs.
There is a distince bakery taste to these cookies and I can't figure it out...I wonder if some of these ingredients are special and I'm just using grocery store versions. For example the bread flour...is there a special 'bakery' bread flour??? Or maybe the brown sugar??? I think I'll go research that to see what I can find out.
BakeChef: I've been asking myself that same question all day. I'm wondering if maybe they use a flour icing and they don't feel the need to mention regular sugar since they have brown sugar on the list??? I really have no idea. I do know he told me he uses a high emoltion (sp?) shortening in the icing and I just assumed he used powder sugar (it was before I got the ingredients list), however I've tried making the icing with high ratio shortening and powder sugar and it's different than his. Too sweet. I started to call them back today and ask about the icing but I was afraid that would be pushing my luck, lol. So I made a flour icing using water and regular sugar. It's okay but still not like theirs.
There is a distince bakery taste to these cookies and I can't figure it out...I wonder if some of these ingredients are special and I'm just using grocery store versions. For example the bread flour...is there a special 'bakery' bread flour??? Or maybe the brown sugar??? I think I'll go research that to see what I can find out.