[Sca-cooks] digby cakes

[Etain1263 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/3/2004 3:42:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ldh at ece.gatech.edu writes:

> My Digby cakes did not rise (much), 

There is nothing in them to make them rise.  They are a "shortbread" type of 
cookie.  I've made dozens of them...I use them as "prizes" when I do "The Food 
Game" at demos.  As for the frosting: use regular sugar.  It gives you the 
opportunity to see how nice a sparkle you get when the liquid sinks into the 
warm cookie (I just mix sugar and water until I can spoon it on the cookies), 
leaving the sugar in a layer on top!   I also point out when I'm doing a demo 
that they did not have powdered sugar....it was difficult enough to get that hard 
loaf grated and pounded into what we call "granulated" as it was!  
  I use Cariadoc's redaction, also.

Etain