My First Galletas (Cookies) in a Foreign Country!

Cookies! And this has been quite the experiment. I thought my biggest problem would be the cookie sheet that is too large for the oven and has to sit at an angle. Wrong. Now I understand why the dial on the oven only goes to 300. There is this thing called "The Metric System" that the rest of the world uses. And that measures temperature in Celsius, not Fahrenheit. So I was baking cookies at 572 degrees F. Which was about 200 degrees more than the recipe called for. I had them on broil for a while until I translated "dorar" and found out it means brown. Which I'm guessing really means broil.

So those cookies cooked alright at that high temperature. It cut the cooking time in half and they didn't flatten out so much like cookies usually do. On the next batch I moved the dial down to 190 degrees C where it should have been in the first place and didn't really like how that worked so moved it back up to 300 C (572 F!) I think I might bake all my cookies at high temps from now on.

And thanks to BigJohn, Mia, and Malak for taking care of those overdone cookies that I forgot to take out when I got too involved with Facebooking.

Now there are a couple of other things I want to mention. Like how much I miss my mixer. It takes a lot of stirring trying to beat that 1/2 pound of butter in with the eggs and sugar! Left a lot of little lumps in the cookie dough which I figured would turn into bites of buttery goodness after the cookies were done. 

And then there was the matter of the measuring cups. I have been suspicious of those measuring cups ever since we got here. They just didn't look right. So a careful looking over revealed the writing "1 decilitre/100ML" on the handle. Well a cup is 280 ML so I was right! That isn't any half cup there. It's 40 ML short! So some adjustments had to be made to the recipe measurements. Which pretty much included me just guessing and tossing in more flour until it looked right.

And can we talk about brown sugar for a minute? Went to Whole Foods with my list today. Was looking for brown sugar. Now I know sugar is azúcar in Spanish. So why don't they have that on the bag? And it doesn't really look like the brown sugar we get in the US. And it tastes a little different too. More of a molasses hint. And it says dulce granulado on the package. Sweet granular? Shouldn't it say the word sugar on there somewhere? I actually had to sniff the package to try and figure out if it was brown sugar. I hope the girl at the check out counter wasn't watching me.

I'm so lucky I went to get out the sack of brown sugar and look that up. Because what I thought was an ant-proof container that I found on the microwave cart isn't ant-proof at all. If that sugar had been in there until morning, no telling how many ants would have been in that sack of brown sugar. Or maybe it would have all been gone and moved into their secret tunnels under the house. So it's back into the double zip-lock baggies for everything.

But it's okay. Don't worry about me. I'm fine. I'm actually growing fond of the little ants. BigJohn caught me leaving snacks out for them last night. 

 

MANGO COOKIES

Printed from COOKS.COM

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½ cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
a little over ½ cup mashed mangos
1 tsp baking soda
3 cups flour
a little over ½ cup of milk

Put milk, eggs, baking soda, 2 cups of flour, granulated sugar, butter, and mangoes in a large mixing bowl. Mix with mixer until creamy and altogether then add the vanilla, the rest of the flour, the cinnamon, and the brown sugar. Bake in a preheated 375°F oven for about 9 – 11 minutes or until they are golden brown.Cool on wire rack and enjoy!
Submitted by: Cupcake1234

 Rating: 5/5 - Reviews: 2

Feb 27, 8:53 AM

Not telling (Colorado) says:

The best cookies I've ever tasted! I will have to have these at all my parties. Not too bitter, but not to sweet. Just perfect!!!

Jul 17, 1:07 PM

Mango Tree Grower (Florida) says:

Love this recipe, always looking for ways to use Mangoes my tree produces plenty of large mangoes. Perfect sweetness, I dropped them on an ungreased cookie sheet, they stuck a bit then I sprayed with Pam and they slid off and had a speck of crispness to the bottoms which made them more appealing to me. Done perfect in 10 minutes.