Jelly1
Regular Member
How can a DIY-er home cook make Alpha-Bits using Homemade Cheerios Can I do it in various flavors?
Jelly1
Regular Member
Yes. I want to know because I want to hand-copy it so I can make it in the future.Seriously?
CD
He can´t.
You need sophisticated machinery to make this breakfast cereal.
The DIY recipe you link to uses a tiny 'o' shaped cookie cutter to make the shapes. You'd need some mini alphabet cookie cutters to make other letters. As it happens, I have some but they are large ones for whole 'cookies'. I think you can probably buy small ones that would be sold for making icing (fondant) shapes for decorating cakes.
But if you want to DIY the shapes by making you own cookie cutters that's another story and I really don't know how. Those alphabet shapes are much too small to cut from the dough 'free hand' so you will need some sort of cutter.
madebyyouandi
Senior Member
I'd just go with squares, like in the recipe. There's no need to make them into letters -- so much work.
Thanks for the recipe. I've pinned this to try in the near future.
Thanks for the recipe. I've pinned this to try in the near future.
Jelly1
Regular Member
I want to put in the hard work because I'm a natural hard worker.I'd just go with squares, like in the recipe. There's no need to make them into letters -- so much work.
Thanks for the recipe. I've pinned this to try in the near future.
As I mentioned above, you need to buy some little alphabet cutters then. They aren't expensive. This sort of thing (sorry this is Amazon UK, but you will find similar):
garlichead
Veteran
Takes a couple of minutes to mix, then cut or stamp out shapes, so not really hard work. Obviously you like cereal so more power to you, have fun with it.
Jelly1
Regular Member
That's good but what oven temperature should I bake the Alpha-Bits and Number-shaped cereal in various flavors?
Jelly1
Regular Member
The huge problem is the oven temperature for the Alpha-Bits and Number-shaped cereal in various flavors.
garlichead
Veteran
For oven temp just follow the original recipe you provided.
garlichead
Veteran
Can you explain the huge problem that involves.
Jelly1
Regular Member
The oven temperature and minutes to bake the Alpha-Bits and Number-shaped cereal in various flavors.
Jelly1
Regular Member
For the letters and numbers?