Entries tagged with 'cookies'
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] Serious eaters, I'm about to stand before you (and on Thinner) a beaten man. Why? It's been a bad serious diet week. I can cite the usual culprits: stress, bad eating habits, and too much access to seriously delicious food. And oh yeah, too many chocolate chip cookie taste tests. In fact, there's another one coming up this afternoon. But too many chocolate chip cookie taste tests are not an acceptable excuse. I should try CCCTT abstinence this afternoon: Just say no! But just saying no to the CCCTT won't rescue my weigh-in this morning....
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In honor of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, Ella Morton of Rocketboom chats with Cookie Monster to talk about his diet, the origin of om nom nom nom nom, and his cookie-eating method. Video, after the jump....
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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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[Flickr: LuLu Witch] Biscuit cookies may look all harmless and delicious, except they are lethal. According to a report in the Telegraph, almost one-third of interviewed UK adults have been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking or fishing for remnants of a collapsed digestive. Even worse, 28 percent said they have choked on crumbs, ten percent have broken a tooth or filling, and three percent have poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit. Of the fifteen popular biscuit types tested, Custard Creams were reported the riskiest, with wafers and the Bourbon sandwich cookies not too far behind. Jaffa Cakes tested the safest. Related A Soggy-Resistant Biscuit May Change Dunking Technology The UK's Favorite Dunking Biscuits, Plus...
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"Please, bake us ... and let us go." Bake and Release is an animated PSA that seeks to alert viewers to the dangers innocent cookies face each day thanks to a condition you may be familiar with—sweet tooth. Watch the video after the jump....
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Serious Eats contributor Jessie Oleson shows you how to make a popular 1880s dessert, Hermits, on her blog, CakeSpy. She says that these cookies—flavored with coffee, cinnamon, and nutmeg—are rich, cakey, moist, and satisfying....
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First the sweatshops and employee discrimination, now Wal-Mart is selling impostor Thin Mints and Tagalongs.
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Illustration from CakespyIt's hard to believe that the chocolate chip cookie is less than a hundred years old. (Some commenters really don't believe it.) But in its seventy-odd years of history, it's come an awfully long way. Cakespy has an illustrated timeline of the chocolate chipper, including such landmark events as the launch of Chips Ahoy (1963), Cookie Crisp (1977), and refrigerated cookie dough (1980), and the opening of City Bakery (1990). Biggest surprise for me: Cookie dough ice cream didn't appear until the '90s? I'd definitely projected it much farther back into my childhood....
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Note: Our own Erin Zimmer just returned from ten days eating and drinking her way around Greece and will be sharing her adventures with us all week as Snapshots from Greece. —Ed. I didn't spot a single hot dog cart in Thessaloniki, but there were a few umbrella-shaded vendors selling koulouri, or biscuit-like rings covered in sesame seeds. They are bagel-shaped, or maybe bagels are koulouri-shaped, considering these date back to the Byzantine era. Unlike bagels, they yield more of a crunch than a chew, along the lines of biscotti....
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"The cookies ranged from ehhh to scrumpdiddleumptious." starbucks.com Stopped by a Starbucks lately? You may have noticed, or tasted, something new. In an effort to take on a more wholesome image and win back customers, the company has introduced a new and improved selection of food items under the campaign "Real food. Simply delicious." This means a revamping of all their baked goods (no artificial flavors, artificial trans fats, artificial dyes, or high-fructose corn syrup), and the launch of several new items, like the Vivanno smoothie and Protein Plate (cheese, hard-boiled egg, whole-wheat bagel, grapes, apple slices, and peanut butter). At a recent media preview, I tasted some of the "improved" baked goods on offer at Starbucks nationwide....
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