So when my colleague mentioned she was taking some ginger shortbread to our other colleague in the states when she travels to the sales meeting next week, stupidly I offered to make it as opposed to her buying mass produced stuff. It was stupid for two reasons.
A) I hate ginger. See above.
B) I've only ever made shortbread once before.
And both of those problems sort of showed themselves tonight when I came to make it. Sadly its turned out very crumbly and I'm concerned it's not going to make the flight to New York very well. It may taste nicer than store bought stuff but there's a reason the stuff you get in Baxters is designed to travel!
I used the recipe from The Essential Baking Cookbook which called for both ground and crystalised ginger. Initially I didn't have any crystalised ginger and considered making it without, but thought if I was going to do it I'd do it right. So off I popped to the shops for some.
As you can probably imagine, it wasn't exactly a difficult recipe. Just your normal shortbread recipe with ground ginger and ginger peices thrown in. But, as I said above, the shortbread came out very buttery and crumbly (and difficult to split up) but my boyfriend said it tasted pretty good.
Also I felt a bit like a chef with a common allergy - it was virtually impossible for me to taste it as I made it. It wouldn't have mattered how 'nice' it tasted, I'd have thought it tasted vile.
Note to self: stop offering to make things for people unless you're certain you can do it properly.
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