Procedure Making the dough Cream together butter and sugars. Mix in eggs one at a time and then add vanilla. Mix salt & soda in flour and stir into creamed mixture. By hand, mix in the nuts, dried berries and chips. Divide mixture evenly into 4 logs shaped by hand and wrapped in parchment paper or plastic wrap. Chill until firm (about 4 hours) or seal logs in zip top bags and freeze for up to a month before baking. Cooking Prepare Egg by inverting platesetter over charcoal that is burning clean (no smoke). Place pizza stone on platesetter and heat until dome temp. reaches about 375-400 degrees. Cookies can be baked in conventional oven at 350 degrees. Place a sheet of quick release (non stick) aluminum foil on pizza stone and arrange evenly sliced pieces of chilled (not frozen) cookie dough. Bake for 8-12 minutes depending on the size of the cookie. Remove foil with cookies attached to a cooling rack. Foil may be reused for another batch. Recipe should yield 4-5 dozen cookies depending on the thickness of slices cut. |