From April 13 to 19, I traveled around Chile with two other American food journalists on a culinary media trip. Here's another snapshot from that week. —Robyn Lee While I was delayed at Newark Airport on my way to Chile (curse American Airlines...curse), I killed some time by calling my friend Diana and asking what she'd like for me to bring back for her and her Chilean boyfriend, Ian. "Negritas! Get Negritas! They're really good!" "Get a what?" "It's a type of biscuit. Ian's mom just brought a few bags back from Chile. ...And we ate a bag." I wrote down the name in my notebook and made it my major goal of the trip to return back to America...
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In order to gain more customers in China, Kraft reformulated their Oreo in different ways, including lowering the sugar content of the round sandwich cookies and making a new Oreo snack in the form of wafer sticks, now the best-selling biscuit in China....
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The Cookie Monster searches deep within himself and wonders if he's a monster: "Me too hard on self. Me no have unhealthy obsession. Me love cookies, but it no hurt anyone. Me just enthusiast. Everyone has something they like most, something they get excited about. Why not me? Me perfectly normal. Me like cookies. So what? Cookies delicious." [via kottke]...
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When Amanda showed her Horlicks cookies to her friends and family, no one could agree on what animal they actually looked like. Piggies? Bears? Mice? I think they look most like dogs, as the title of the recipe says. [via TasteSpotting]...
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Ceramic cookie stamps Making sweets for your sweet this Valentine’s Day? Consider cookie stamps. As their name suggests, cookie stamps are usually employed to make imprinted cookies. However, they can also be used with marzipan, firm fondants (think peppermint patty-type filling or wedding cake covering), edible modeling chocolate, even tootsie rolls—anything plastic enough to take and hold an impression—turning simple sweets into beautifully filigreed mignons with the barest commitment of time and effort. For those less inclined to make their gifts, the stamps, which make lovely kitchen display objects as much as useful decorating tools, make for thoughtful gifts in their own right. Available in a staggering array of designs and motifs—from florid hearts to fire breathing dragons, austere initials...
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For the first time, the Girl Scouts are selling 100-calorie packs in a flavor they've baptized Cinna-Spins.
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Make your own pixel-art cookies so you can not only play Tetris but eat it too. [via BoingBoing]...
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Of course you're going to want to leave some cookies for Santa tonight. If you don't already have a recipe in mind, here are some of our favorites from the Serious Eats Recipes archives. The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie EverWorld Peace Cookies (fairly appropriate on Christmas Eve, no?)SnickerdoodlesMolasses Cookies (to slow him down and sneak a peek)Rick Katz's Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies...
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Instead of making traditional cutout cookies, try Elise Bauer's recipe for stained glass cookies whose centers are filled with melted hard candies....
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International ocean environmental advocacy group Oceana has teamed up with Washington D.C.–based bakery Cakelove for their Adopt-A-Creature Campaign. With each marine creature adopted, you will receive an animal-shaped cookie cutter and a sugar cookie recipe from Cakelove, in addition to help protect coral reefs, fight global warming, protect sea creatures and eliminate unsustainable fishing....
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