A lot of my museum life revolves around Palaeontology. It’s what drew me into the museum to begin with and where I feel most at home. In preparation for a festive party, I decided get creative and design some trilobite cookies.
Ideally, I would have made these from scratch with gluten-free ingredients (so I could eat them too). But I chose the quick method of using store bought cookies as the base.
The trick is to find a cookie with the correct shape and these Peak Frean yogurt cookies seemed to work best. Since they were sandwich cookies, I first pulled them apart and removed the filling.
store bought cookies, chocolate chips photo source : Lorie Pierce
The icing filling was added later to the chocolate chip mixture to make it creamier.
melting chocolate photo source : Lorie Pierce
The chocolate chips were melted in a double boiler. In this case, a smaller saucepan floating on a hot water bath in a larger saucepan.
dip ends of cookies photo source : Lorie Pierce
Dip one end of cookie wafers in chocolate and leave to harden on wax paper. Cookies were raised on chopsticks to allow underside to cool.
adding candy eyes photo source : Lorie Pierce
Before chocolate is completely hardened, add candy eyes. With this size of wafer, Skittles worked best.
So this first version of trilobite cookies will be called…..
Skittlebite glutinous
I plan future attempts at trilobite cookies. Stay tuned.
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