WALKING DEAD'S CAROL'S ACORN & BEET COOKIES - Paul Tran Baker Man

My goal was to make a real, edible, and enjoyable version of the acorn & beet cookies that Carol makes on AMC’s The Walking Dead.

Thanks to Michael Austin (music), Emily Beer (logo), and Tyne Sebastian (motion media)!

What would be your favorite post-apocalyptic cookie?

WALKING DEAD CAROL’S ACORN & BEET COOKIES
Makes 1 dozen (12) cookies
MATERIALS
Mixer
Pans
Cookie sheet
Rubber spatula
Tablespoon sized scoop
Cutting board
Knife
INGREDIENTS
86 ml (1/4 cup) beet caramel (recipe below)
65 g (1/3 cup) shortening
15 g (1 tablespoon) applesauce
15 g (1 tablespoon) mashed water chestnuts
8 g (1 tablespoon) arrowroot starch
1/4 tsp salt
99g (1/4 bar) chocolate
DIRECTIONS
To make the water chestnut mash, open a can of water chestnuts, pour its contents into a pan, and add enough water to submerge the water chestnuts. Boil for about 45 minutes until they are soft. Use a potato masher, fork, food processor, or whatever you have to mash them. Cool to room temperature.
To make the beet caramel, open a can of sliced beets, pour its contents into a pan, and add enough water to cover the beets completely. Boil the beets for about 30 minutes. The water will be red and the beets will be grey/red. Strain the beets from the liquid but keep the liquid. Bring the liquid back to a boil then turn the heat down until the water evaporates. This might take another 30 minutes. Once you have a syrup, remove from the heat and allow the caramel to cool to room temperature. The leftover beets are good as a mash with some butter, cream, and salt.
Preheat the oven to 350F/175C/gas mark 4.
Cream the shortening and the beet caramel together. Add the applesauce and the mashed water chestnuts and combine well.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the acorn flour/starch, arrowroot, and salt.
Add half of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until it is just combined. Add the other half of the dry mix and mix until it is about to be completely combined.
Crumble, chop, or chip the chocolate bar into chips.
Add the chocolate then use a rubber spatula to finish combining the cookie dough.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment and use a tablespoon scoop to place the dollops of dough. Make sure there is at least a couple inches between each cookie.
Bake for 8 to 9 minutes until the edges start to brown. Remove from the oven and leave the cookies on the pan for at least 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.
Enjoy!

[GracynsScienceLab]

That’s amazing that you figured out how to make those taste good! You should totally sell them for the season opener and the finale!

[s.nifrum]

I like your recipe better than the official one

I haven’t tried either of them yet but I still feel pretty confident in saying that

This one works better with the show conceptually speaking.

[goldenv]

🤣😂😂 just watched this episode tonight and I was curious

[AFriendlyNecromorph]

There's now an official Walking Dead cookbook that has this recipe, I hope you make another video for it! :)

[sdm]

She said she uses the applesauce in place of eggs
If you want a proper cookie dough you need to achieve the effect of every one egg with 1/4 cup applesauce

[terry-elizabeth]

Add grated carrot of you want more sweetness and texture ❤

[missgeekmonique]

Yay!!! I will do this. Thank you. You should get more views . Seriously

[s.nifrum]

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That’s a quarter bar? I had to chop up a whole bar to get half that number of chips





Where do you live I think I wanna move there