I’m guessing I’m probably the last member of the foodblogosphere to try out Pierre Hermes’s Korova cookies aka World Peace Cookies. I honestly have no idea what was holding me back, since almost every one of the admirable foodbloggers have attested to its divine indulgence. So yesterday (and today) was spent mulling over them.
Anyone familiar with the aforementioned cookies would, at first glance, realise something different from the photo I’ve posted. Any guesses? Well, they aren’t exactly the picture-perfect smooth chocolate rounds that they were meant to be. I was supposed to cut them into slices after having formed the dough into logs, but as luck were to have it, even after leaving them overnight in the fridge, the logs were still crumbly. And I’m not talking about we-can-just-piece-them-together crumbly, but as in these-look-like-grains-of-sand type of crumbly. I suspect it’s got to do with the step where I add in the flour. Maybe I didn’t mix enough, all thanks to the trepidations raised by the constant emphasis of not overworking the dough. So I just had to stick to the routine hand-shaping method as a last resort.
