This week Teanna of Spork or Foon? selected Mrs. Vogel’s Scherben. My son loved these crispy cookie. They really couldn't be easier, fried dough covered in cinnamon and sugar than dusted with powder sugar before serving. Time is a requirement, since they need two periods of chilling.
The dough was very easy to make and roll out. The cookies them self didn't have much flavor and surprisingly the dusting of powdered sugar was what gave these cookies their appeal. I think that adding some flavoring, orange, lemon or lime zest, to the dough would really make these cookies special. You could also add some citrus zest to the sugar to give these little crisps a second layer of flavor.
We made some with cinnamon and sugar and some with just sugar.
Visit the Tuesdays With Dorie blog roll to see what the other bakers did. I f you would like the recipe to make these cookies visit Teanna at Spork or Foon? or check out Dorie's book.
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My grandmother used to make these! They must be German in ancestry... We loved them as kids.
I'm not familiar with these, but they look great. Once again, I'm admiring another of your plates. I get double the pleasure upon visiting your blog...lucious edibles and the prettiest plates. I'm all about the visual...have a great Tuesday.
Maureen
These sound so perfectly crispy! My daughter would really love these!
Great idea to add some zest to the dough AND the sugar! I can't think about these things, since I KNOW I shouldn't make these again and be eating them again! ;)
Your photos are awesome.
The certainly are pretty. I would agree with you that a little zing from another flavor would make a big difference.
My grandmother used to make something like this and it was delicious. Thanks fr the memories and the recipe!
This looks great and beautiful clicks too!
Mimi, it looks so good, I almost wish I had made this.
I did post something fun though.
Yours look perfectly executed. The idea of adding a bit of citrus zest to the dough is a very good one!
cinnamon sugar. fried. those words automatically bring me to my knees. what a neat treat this is--the danger is that i'd eat it all before the sun went down that day. :)
We have a similar ried/baked dough recipe in Nigeria, flavoured with nutmeg called chin-chin. I miss it!
Mmmmm fried and sweet...two of my favorite things :)
Your photos are beautiful! glad you enjoyed these cookies as much as we did.
I've never wanted anything more!
They look great! I enjoyed them too--more than I thought I would.
Irresistible, sweet, cinnamon, crispy treat. Love at first bite!
Love your photos of these! I traveled to Kansas this weekend and had to pass on making these. But, I will be making them soon!
Your sugar stuck much better than mine. Looks so delicious.
Gorgeous photos and I love the colors!
oh these look so so good and fun to make
What delicious little cookies to snack on! I like your flavor ideas!
Fried dough is really delicious - I wish I could make them more around here!!
Fried dough! Ooooo ahhhh drooollll. So yummy and sinful. Ahhh heaven.
I've never heard about these cookies. Look yummy!
Mimi I could eat a whole entire plate of these. I'll take some with cinnamon and sugar or even plain sugar. Also your lemon buttermilk cake looks so moist and delicious too!
These cookies are gorgeous, and so is the plate that they're displayed on! I love your idea of adding some zest into the sugar coating!
I know you wrote that w/o the dusting of the powdered sugar that there really was not much taste-but, I really like the look of these and I would have devoured them. I think the addition of citrus ( lemon, orange) would be a really good idea.
P.S. I saw your comment on my blog. I don't think you can personally ( I think a company can) mail fresh produce.
Fried cookies?! Hell, yeah. These look absolutely delightful!
Gorgeous photos, your scherben look super-yummy! Adding some citrus is a great idea, it was pretty plain dough.
My kids would be crazy for these too! I have awards for you on my blog.
Your Scherben are lovely, and your idea for adding a little flavoring sounds yummy!
So pretty!
These look so amazing. The kind of treat that I could eat and eat and eat and eat...
These must be very crispy and flavourful. I would love to snack them when watching TV. Looks very delicious...mmm
Yum, YUm, YUM! Let's say it one more time, shall we!? YUMMMMMMM!
Happy Friday!
~ingrid
Delicious! We have similar cookies in Lebanese cuisine called zalabyeh.
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