We at the Florida Beer Company enjoy making beer and food pairings when we cook at home. It helps us get more familiar with the versatility of the brews and see the flavors really shine. By doing this we get a chance to see what compliments, intensifies or even makes an interesting contrast.
Today we chose to make, soft, chewy, chocolate and molasses infused cookies with Gaspar’s Porter. We also decided that making them into cookie sandwiches with home-made whipped cream was the most genius idea of all time. This actually helped bring the coffee, dark chocolate and roasted flavors together nicely to help lighten up the heavy flavors of the cookie.
With out further ado here is our recipe for Gaspar’s Porter cannonball Cookie! Anchors Away!
Gaspar’s Porter Cannonball Cookie
Ingredients:
1 stick organic, no salt butter, softened
1 1/2 cups of unbleached flour
1/4 cup fair trade organic dark chocolate cocoa
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 1/2 cups fair trade chocolate chips
1/2 Fresh From Florida brown sugar
1/4 Fresh From Florida Sugar
1 1/2 tbsp of organic molasses
1/2 tsp organic vanilla
1 cage free organic egg
6 oz of Gaspar’s Porter
Whipped Cream
1 cup of heavy whipping cream
1 tbsp of confectioner sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
– Combine the butter, sugar, vanilla, molasses and egg together and stir together, you can also you your mixer using the paddle attachment to help cream the butter. Once this is done, mix in dark chocolate cocoa powder, chocolate chips. Then pour in the flour and beer by alternating while stirring. Once mixed thoroughly place in fridge to cool dough for roughly 45 min – 1 hour. This will help the butter to reconstitute and make for a chewier and softer cookie.
– Once cooled remove the dough, put small scoops on parchment paper on top of the cookie trays and place in oven at 350 degrees for 15-20 min.
-While waiting for the cookies to bake take your whipped cream ingredients and whip them together creating a nice thick consistency.
-Once the cookies have baked and are cooled place a dollop of cream on one cookies and mash the two of them together.
We garnished our cookies with dark chocolate covered espresso beans from William Dean chocolates to bring it over the top!
Well we hope you enjoy our Gaspar’s Cannonball Cookies and remember to stay tuned for more recipes, pairings, beer releases and brewery news right here from our amazing blog!
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