Don't despair if the mushroom season is over. DIY indoors!

PORCINI COOKIES

170 g butter, room temperature

85 g sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

25 g dried porcini, crushed finely

200 g flour

1. Beat butter until fluffy.

2. Add sugar and vanilla. Continue to beat until light.

3. Add mushrooms gently so they do not fly all over the place.

4. Finally, add the flour and mix.

5. Shape the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for about an hour.

6. Roll out the dough to 1/2 inch. Cut out in mushroom shapes. Place on lined baking sheet. Poke and puncture raw cookies with a fork.

7. Bake at 170 degrees for 15 minutes.

Chocolate Mushroom cookies anyone?

Chocolate Mushroom recipe from Herb e-cooking school

1/2 cup butter 

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
100g 70% dark chocolate melted and cooled
3/4 cup sour cream
10 button mushrooms, finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped roasted almonds
1 ¾ cups plain flour
¼ cup dark cocoa
1/2 tsp baking soda
Pinch salt

1. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg, vanilla and beat thoroughly until combined. 
2. Stir in the melted chocolate and the sour cream then folding in the chopped mushrooms and the chopped almonds. 
3. Sift the flour, cocoa and the baking powder with the salt. Add the flour mix to the creamed mixture and mix well. 
4. Place tablespoons 5 cm apart on greased baking paper. 
5. Bake at 175C for 20 minutes until dry to touch.


I substituted walnuts for almonds and I halved the amount of sugar. It worked just fine.

Mushrooms for dessert

The usual way to eat mushrooms is to make something savory with them. There is, theoretically speaking, nothing to prevent us having mushrooms for dessert. Mushroom flavor is a flavor, like any other. The only thing stopping us is our mind and mental blocks: we have learned that mushrooms are good savory. This is true.

However, we can also learn that mushrooms are tasty sweet, as a dessert. In my blog, I have written about chanterelle toffee, chanterelle marmalade, porcini cake, cookies and porcini marshmallow. Obviously, mushrooms for dessert is an exciting area that has great potential.

Have you heard of mushroom ice cream? The mushrooms used are candy cap mushrooms (Lactarius camphoratus) which are supposed to taste of both maple syrup and nuts. Sounds super delicious to me.

Yellow Foot Chanterelle Mushroom Ice Cream with Chocolate Covered Bacon by Chef Robert W. from Friends School of Baltimore.

Recipe for Candy Cap Mushroom Ice Cream

Another Candy Cap Ice Cream recipe. And yet another.

Swedish porcini cookies

75 g butter/ 2.65 oz

1 ¼ dl sugar/0.6 cups

½ dl oil (rapeseed, for example)/ 0.2 cups

2 Tbs crushed dried mushrooms (porcini, for example)

2 ¼ dl flour/1 cup

½ tsp baking powder

1. Set the oven at 150 degrees C/350 degrees F.

2.Combine butter and sugar.

3. Add oil and keep mixing.

4. Add the mushrooms.

5. Mix the flour and baking powder and add to the mixture.

6. Let the dough rest in the fridge for about half an hour.

7. Form into round balls and bake in the oven for about 15 min.