Last time I made them they got eaten too fast and only lasted a day, so I endeavoured to make them smaller so there would be more biscuits to go 'round. (I couldn't double the recipe because I only had the exact amount of butter for one dough batch) So I popped them in the oven and went up the other end of the house to fold the mountain of washing, which would take about fifteen minutes.
However, I was really stupid. REALLY STUPID. I should have remembered this but \;o;/ I forgot instead: Because the biscuits were smaller, they needed waaaaay less time in the oven. Simple facts. And I only realised this when I was walking into the kitchen, so the final metres to the oven were a mad rush and I nearly forgot to put oven mitts on to get the trays out and... they were very...um...well, what I could see of them after the smoke cleared...
They were toast. And I nearly cried because I had no more butter to make a second batch, and I put so much effort into the lime taste balance and and and. (I was less upset over "there are no biscuits" than "I wasted 125grams of butter.
Our last butter.") I got brave and tried one. I had to spit it out and get a drink. Just, n
O.
And then, I suddenly thought "...What would Mikkel do?" >:3c
So I meticulously sorted out the charcoal biscuits from the "yeah I can cover that up" burnt biscuits, and sorted them into pairs (I was one ok-biscuit short so I used a dead-biscuit shhhh) and went to make the icing. I then remembered that I had no more butter and therefore could not make butter icing. So I just used milk instead, which required a LOT more icing sugar to get a decent consistency <_< And it tasted REALLY BAD.
So I rummaged through the pantry and found a ye olde bottle of coconut flavouring (a miracle omg) and put some into the icing. Still tasted bad, but now also coconutty. Smelt great though so at least the burnt smell wouldn't be noticed.
So I limed it up (forgetting that citric fruit juice and milk just....u_u) and slathered it onto the biscuits to glue them together. It was a mess. But a functional mess.
I put all the little biscuits onto a plate and dusted them with more icing sugar (cavity grenades u__u) to cover up the burnt colour, and put them in the fridge.
My dentist sister gets home, exclaims "I CAN SMELL BISCUITS YESSSSS" goes straight to the fridge, grabs a biscuit and EATS IT. I was like O___O" and asked if it was ok-tasting <_<
Apparently it was "Really yummy, the icing is a
bit sweet, *takes two more* why?"
U____U
MIKKEL I HOPE YOU'RE PROUD /;__;/
How they looked last time (and I thought they were burnt then!):
Death-biscuit:
