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| Gooey Chocolate Pecan Shortbread Recipe courtesy Amy Finley and Rory Schepisi Show: The Next Food Network Star Episode: Fort Dix Challenge Overall User Rating:  |
Mistakes
09/21/2007 at 02:42pm
User: Sally from Benton, AR User Rating:
I cook for large groups of people so I thought this would be great. There must be some mistakes in the recipe. Should the 4 lbs. of butter be 4 cups? I put the whole mess in the trash. I did manage to catch the error in the pan size before putting in the to thin batter. It was a diaster.
Dangerously Bad
08/24/2007 at 06:40pm
User: Lisa from Andover, KS User Rating:
I should have read the reviews first! Spilled all over bottom of oven, when I tried to use the automatic clean cycle on oven the mess caught on fire. Will never try another Food Network recipe without reading reviews first!!
CALORIC CATASTROPHE
08/18/2007 at 04:58pm
User: Anna from Lexington, KY User Rating:
I love shortbread and chocolate, and I thought this recipe looked and sounded delicious. I've tried this receipe unsucessfully TWICE--first as is, and the second time with modifications. The first time, the butter just floated to the top nearly an inch deep, leaving a greasy oily residue. It tasted okay, but I hated to see the expensive real butter wasted.The second time, I took reader reviews and cut down on the butter, but it turned out hard, flat and almost like a candy brittle. Another mess in the trash. AND THREE TABLESPOONS OF SALT FOR ONE PAN OF COOKIES???? Ick ack yuck. Terrible, I expected more out of the new Foodnetwork Star.
recipe measurements
08/15/2007 at 07:35pm
User: Jean from Midwest City, OK User Rating:
The recipe measurements are all wrong, if this is justfor one 10 X 14 pan, please revise, I have tried to adjust to no avail- would like to make them when you all find out the correct measurements
Disastrous
08/12/2007 at 06:53am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I followed the recipe & the measurements are definitely wrong. I looked at the reviews & tried again with less butter. The shortbread came out hard as a rock. I was afraid my guests would break their teeth trying to eat it. What a disaster. A huge waste of time & money. We need a negative star category for this one.
Ingredients Way Off!
08/11/2007 at 12:10pm
User: Rachel from wheeling, IL User Rating:
I used the same amount of ingredients they listed in the recepie and it turned out horrible. If they are going to have a recipie on their web-site they should test it out knowing that fans of the show are going to try it. Maybe when Amy gets her own show she can show us the proper way to cook it.
Mrs. Be's comments
08/05/2007 at 12:05am
User: DIANE from Brookfield, WI User Rating:
There is something wrong with the measurements of the ingredients. Way too much dough for the pan. Not enough flour to make a stiff dough for shortbread. I have dough that dripped off the pan all over my oven. What a mess. If you submit recipes from The Next Food Network Star program, test the recipe first.
MMMMM so good.
08/03/2007 at 05:08pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This looked good and now I know that they taste wonderful!
Baker, beware!!!
08/02/2007 at 04:31pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I used the appropriate pans and the recipe porportions, and I wound up with a smoky oven and a mess! Be careful, and hope you had better luck than I did.
Should have read reviews first!!!
07/29/2007 at 01:42pm
User: Lisa from Antioch, CA User Rating:
I too should have read the reviews before making this recipe. There is obviously a huge error here. I knew it looked funny before I even baked it, so I added a little more flour, and it still totally flopped. I cut the recipe down to one 1/4, and obviously a lb. of butter and 2+ tsp. of salt was still way too much. I don't think the original recipe could have worked even if not cut down. 4lbs. of butter!! That's outrageous, especially to that amount of flour. It sounded so good, my 11 year old and daughter were really looking forward to something delicious, what a disaster! Mine went overboard all over the oven, and the rest went down the drain. It literally had pools of butter. We could tell w/ the right proportions, it could have been delicious. Thank you to the person who fixed the measurements, we'll try it again today. Food network should remove this recipe and fix it, that is obviously not how it came out for the marines, Giada and Paula seemed to love it. A recipe mix up happened somewhere.
PLEASE correct ingredient amounts
07/26/2007 at 01:05pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I cut recipe in 1/2, used the 10x14 1/2 pan(w/ sides), baked for 15 mins, and then rotated pan and knocked on rack. Mixture was now completely liquid from all of the butter. It baked for 10 more mins, but was still liquid & had not begun to brown. After 5 additional mins., concotion had puffed up & overflowed onto bottom of oven. Overflow(b/c mostly butter & sugar) on bottom of oven caught fire. All in all, concotion baked for a little over 30 mins. and once cooled it was like sticky toffee FLOATING on LOTS of melted butter. The more than $15 disaster went into the garbage can and now I have a nasty mess to clean in the oven. I still would love to try this recipe, but with the correct measurements. PLEASE CORRECT THE MEASUREMENTS!
I should've known better
07/24/2007 at 02:40pm
User: Amy from Eldersburg, MD User Rating:
I wish I would've read the reviews first. Definitely too much butter. What confused me was that the recipe says it makes a full sheet, but in the directions it says to use a 10x14.5 sheet (isn't that a quarter sheet pan?). Anyway, I quartered the recipe and only used 1 lb of butter, but it was still too much. Butter pooled on the top. My daughter liked it, but I was afraid I'd give her a coronary at the mere age of 6. Maybe the recipe is for 4 sticks and not 4 pounds. I'm determined to try it again!
Horrible!
07/23/2007 at 08:44pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
If I could use no stars, I would! I should have known this was wrong, even after I cut the butter down by half!! Same thing as other reviews--a big waste of $$$--and it all went all over the oven and down the garbage disposal! I read the disclaimer, but you'd think before you post a recipe, you'd at least check the quantities. I find it hard to believe that Amy and Rory had it wrong....Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!
Bad recipe!
07/22/2007 at 10:51pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I made this recipe just as they said and it was a disaster! 4 lbs of butter was way too much!! There was butter overflowing everywhere, and it was WAY too much for a 10 x 14 1/2 inch sheet pan. What a waste of $12.00 worth of butter!
Tricky disclaimer
07/17/2007 at 08:24am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
At the bottom of the recipe it says: This recipe was provided by a finalist, who may or may not be a professional cook, for The Next Food Network Star. Food Network has not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results. In other words, don't blame us if it doesn't turn out correct. Why post a recipe without double checking the ingredients?
Really yummy
07/10/2007 at 12:13pm
User: kristen from Frisco, TX User Rating:
I used the adviced of another poster and cut this recipe WAY down. It was really really good. Husband can't stop raving.
Yuck!!!!
07/08/2007 at 10:12pm
User: Paula from Columbia City, IN User Rating:
9 pounds of butter is way too much!! After putting the chocolate chips and pecans on it, the butter oozed about an inch over the top. It was a waste of about $20. I threw the whole thing out.
no bulk please
07/08/2007 at 12:02pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
thank annomouse, We would all apprecite it if you guys at food network would scale the recipes for us. thank you
Very Good !!!
07/01/2007 at 02:06pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Is it just me or does 16 sticks of butter sound outrageous? I scaled this recipe down to fit a 9x13 inch baking pan: 2 sticks of softnend butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 1/3 c. flour, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp vanilla (opt.), 1 1/2 c. choc. chips, 1 cup chopped nuts.Prepare ad directed.
Recipe Error
06/28/2007 at 09:04am
User: Jacquelyn from St. Petersburg, FL User Rating:
I believe that this recipe is wrong~it calls for 4 lbs of butter! I could not even get that much butter into my standing mixer as well as the sugar & flour. I changed it to 4 sticks of butter or 1 lb of butter and it worked OK.