It’s bound to happen that a couple of these recipes will be duds in my book. The first 4 recipes for this challenge have been delicious and I’ve loved making and eating them. These brandy snaps though? I feel incredibly apathetic towards them. Making them was kind of fun – I have a soft spot for dough/batter made on the stove top, but the end result is just… fine? I’ve honestly never had a brand snap so I don’t know if I made them correctly or not, but they hardened fine. And my boyfriend ate them so I assumed he liked them.

But on to actually make things things.For this we’re using Mary Berry’s recipe over on BBC. The nice thing about this is you need no special equipment, but the ingredients are pretty.. not conducive to America. So in an effort to make these with ingredients I can find I used the following:

55g unsalted butter
55g turbinado sugar
55g corn syrup
50g all purpose flour
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp lemon juice

So put your butter and sugars in a pot and dissolve the sugar and do it slowly because apparently it’ll crystallize if it boils. Thank you very much for the hint Mary. Then after it sits for a few minutes mix in the rest of the ingredients

It ends up as a gloopy paste like thing.

Smear that onto a couple baking sheets really far apart because apparently these things spread. Like, really spread. 

As you can see below, I didn’t spread them out far enough apart. So they’re ooozing together. Oops

They look pretty cool though. The lacy design they get doesn’t disappoint.

Then this is where I found my experience odd. The recipe talks like you have 30 seconds to shape these hot jerk cookies before they harden, but I found I had to let them cool for a minute and then they were much easier to spin up around the spoon and round.

It clearly didn’t all come out perfect, because look at that flat one over on the side. Also it doesn’t say if the top side of the cookie should be facing out or in. It’s easier to roll with the top on the inside, but i mean… it kind of looks cooler with the top side out. I’m not 100% sure and honestly I don’t really care.

I’d rather make tuiles than these any day.

What I learned:

• Listen to how far to separate cookies

What was hard:

• rolling these things up.
• Getting them to set actually round

Would I make these again?

• Nope. I wouldn’t. They don’t taste amazing and they burn when you roll them. 100% not worth it.