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The UK's Favorite Dunking Biscuits, Plus Dunking Tips
Photograph from lisibo on Flickr Telegraph reports the results of a survey to find the UK's top ten favorite dunking biscuits, the leader being the chocolate digestive. Compared to un-coated biscuits, the chocolate digestive's chocolate shell protects the biscuit from becoming soggy too quickly. Physicist Dr. Len Fisher of Bristol University, who tested for the breaking point of the biscuits, offers this advice for successful biscuit dunking: The best strategy is a flat-on approach, biscuit-side down to minimise chocolate bleed into your tea or coffee and to maintain the chocolate layer as a crack-stopper. [...] The biscuit—held as you would a penny—should be removed in a smooth fluid motion with the dunked half swivelled, so that it is supported by...Girl Scouts Getting Stingy with Cookies
Dallas Morning News: "Fewer cookies were packaged into Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Tagalongs boxes this year and the Lemon Chalet Crème cookies were resized to compensate for the rising cost of baking staples. All other flavors remain the same, according to the Girl Scouts of the USA." [via @homesicktexan]...PostSecret Postcard Admits to Girl Scout Cookie Addiction
"I'm selling a SCAM. And I'm addicted." From PostSecret, the site that publishes anonymous postcard confessions sent in by readers. Related Is a Girl Scout Cookie Still the Same with a Different Name? [SE Talk] Girl Scout Cookie Sales Start This Month, Or Make Them at Home...Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Photograph from turkeychik on Flickr Many of you have been asking about the future of Mother's cookies, so we contacted Kellogg's with your questions. In our inbox from a Kellogg's spokesperson today: Kellogg Company plans on reintroducing many of Mother's Cookies back into stores on the West coast by June, 2009. While we may not have all varieties of Mother's Cookies available at that time, we are working on some of your favorites like Mother's Circus Animals, Mother's Iced Oatmeal cookies, Mother's Parade Animal cookies, Mother's Chocolate Chip, Mother's Coconut Cocadas, Mother's Macaroons, Mother's Taffy Sandwich cookies, Mother's English Tea cookies, Mother's Double Fudge Sandwich cookies, Mother's Vanilla Crème Sandwich cookies, and Mother's Iced Lemon cookies. Whew! Related Mother's...Girl Scout Cookie Sales Start This Month, Or Make Them At Home
Bakingbites.com Just in time for your sweets-banning New Year's resolutions, the Girl Scout troops are back this month, armed with cookie order forms. You know you want some. But if you're watching the expenses or hydrogenated oils, or just can't wait until the actual boxes show up this spring, Baking Bites has recipe spin-offs for some favorites (Thin Mint, Samoas, Do-Si-Dos, and Tagalongs). While it would shatter the image of magical elves or fairies faraway shaping each Thin Mint or sprinkling coconut onto each Samoa, these might, gasp, taste better, while still looking authentic. Are you cutting back on Girl Scout cookies this year, for economical or local food activism reasons? Related Death of the Girl Scout Cookie? Girl...Photo of the Day: Retro Christmas Cookies
Photograph from Sarah Serendipity on Flickr If cookies were to congregate on a wooden surface for something really important in the cookie world, this might be the result. They seem to be paying homage to the center oatmeal lace one, which is clearly a deity in the cookie community. Though not all are pictured, this was part of one woman's 40-ish dozen retro cookies baking project, inspired by a recent Gourmet spread. You can make the same volume with 10 pounds of flour, five pounds of butter, a lot of sugar, and some swearing. Related 5 Tricks to Baking Perfect Sugar Cookies Gourmet Shares Best Cookie Recipes from 1941 to 2008 Dorie Greenspan's Chocolate Sparkler Cookies Serious Cookies: Cocoa...Archway Cookies Also Saved From Bankruptcy
Photograph from nycblondieandbrownie Earlier this month, Kellogg's saved Mother's Cookies from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by purchasing the company's trademarks and recipes. Now Archway Cookies, once part of the Mother's label, will also be saved, but by Lance, makers of cheese-and-peanut-butter sandwich cookies, among other snacks. Archway Cookies, based in Ashland, Ohio, is probably most famous for its soft-baked cookies. Growing up, I always had one in my lunch sack, courtesy of my mom, because she considered it acceptable junk food. But what always boggled my mind—how the moisture content eclipsed Famous Amos and other predictably crunchy packaged cookies. Did they somehow freeze time just after baking them? Preservatives probably played a role, but I'd err on the side of...In Videos: SNL Digital Short, 'Cookies'
I'm probably a sucker for continuing to watch Saturday Night Live after the election (it's returned to its usual lackluster self), but sometimes a skit or two does right. Like this SNL Digital Short. Guest host Hugh Laurie announces layoffs at a company meeting, but Fred Armisen only cares about scarfing up the cookies in the middle of the table. The skit was amusing enough watching Armisen crawl across the table and say crazy things ("I wish I could stop. Someone should put the security guards on cookie patrol"), but you'll explode with laughter about 20 seconds from the end. Video, after the jump....5 Tricks to Baking Perfect Sugar Cookies
1. Measure Carefully Any sugar cookie recipe is a delicate proportional balance of fat, sugar and flour, so be sure to measure your ingredients carefully in order to get the desired finished texture (crisp, chewy, delicate, melting, etc). 2. Mind Your Butter! A key step in making sugar cookies is the creaming of butter and sugar. If the butter is too soft, your cookies will be greasy, and if it is too cold, they'll seem like lead weights. It is important to start with evenly softened butter, and the only way to do this properly is to take it out of the refrigerator and, uh, wait. Always soften butter in a temperate environment until it yields gently to pressure;...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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