Note: Please give a warm welcome to Heather Rawlinson, our new chocolate correspondent. She kicks things off with ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie analysis—which chips are best? You might want to grab a cold glass of milk for this one. Take it away, Heather! [Photograph: Heather Rawlinson] Like so many other great discoveries, the chocolate-chip cookie supposedly started out as a mistake. According to the story, which seems to border on myth, Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts intended to make chocolate cookies for her guests one day. After running out of her usual baking chocolate, she improvised with some Nestle chocolate morsels instead. To her surprise, the chocolate chips didn't melt and combined with the dough just...
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with copious amounts of coconut, chocolate chips, and cream in your life. Diet schmiet. Throw in some eggs, sugar, and leftover bread and you've got a party in the form of Coconut-Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding (or as I like to say, CBP). Emily, of (Visions of) Sugar Plum, whipped this up in preparation for an impending winter storm, and I suggest you do the same. Even if there's no storm, there are lots of things that this bread pudding could help you prepare for—like, say, life?...
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There's a theory to which many people I know subscribe which basically says that any delicious food can only get better if you coat it in a tasty batter and then deep-fry it. Well, FHM got Food Network host George Duran to try it out by submitting five classic comfort foods to Trial By Fryer: White Castle sliders, microwave pizza, hard-boiled eggs, gummi worms and chocolate chip cookie dough. Four out of the five did well, but you might be surprised which food came out tops and which one was a let down. I know I was!...
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