Stella Doro
This probably sounds weird but, I LOVE Stella Doro Breakfast Treats and eat about 2 or more packages a week with tea and coffee. Does anyone know of a cookie recipe (or is it a biscuit?, what is it exactly?) that I could make that would mimic that type of cookie? Thank you SE readers, as usual....
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8 Comments:
i don't have the recipe but I do have a Stella D'Oro presence in my life. I work in the Bronx and get off the subway (the 1) at W 231st street, right where the Stella D'Oro factory is. Every single morning it smells like cookies baking when you get off the subway. It is the most amazing thing every and has led to some emergency cookie purchases at 8:20 in the morning.
betsyg at 10:22AM on 06/26/08
I only get them occasionally but that's mostly because I can eat a package in 3 sittings.
bobbob at 11:35AM on 06/26/08
OMG! I grew up eatting Stella D'oro every morning for breakfast. I thought i was the only one, thank goodness i'm not alone! ;) I envy you betsyg! I can rarely find those yummies in the south, and when i do i tend to hoard them. SO doesnt care for any cookies so, they're all MINE!!! (cackling maniaclly) oops sorry guess the meds wore off ;)
huneybumper at 12:04PM on 06/26/08
I loved the "S" biscuits. Anisette Sponge and Toast. I grew up on Stella D'Oro - my dad is from Naples. Good luck finding a similar recipe! (But if you stop buying them they'll stop making them - like the White Lily Flour people...)
chiff0nade at 2:23PM on 06/26/08
Oh man, the eighties! I used to love the Stella Doro commercial with the woman in her bathrobe at the kitchen table in the middle of the night eating the breakfast treats and wondering why she should have to wait til breakfast. I made sure we bought some and they were super good. I don't recall seeing them in the grocery stores anymore...I'm rarely in the cookie aisle, though.
wookie at 2:36PM on 06/26/08
As a child, I remember liking the fudge-filled shortbread cookies and going through all sorts of contrivances to just eat the fudge. I also liked the pale chocolate and vanilla shortbread fingers. The S-cookies not so much, because I found them very hard. You must have very strong teeth!
I Googled for the OP, and found two possible simulations:
Italian Love Knots (http://www.italiansrus.com/recipes/loveknots.htm)
and
Susamielli:( http://italianfood.about.com/od/biscottietc/r/blr1527.htm)
If anyone can tell me the traditional Italian source of the fudge cookies I'd love to know!
HeartofGlass at 7:50AM on 06/27/08
Wookie, they most certainly do still make Breakfast Treats! They're with all of the other Stella D'oro products...
Curlz at 11:04AM on 06/28/08
I tried them once (probably '70's) and didn't care for them. Never bought again.
PerkyMac at 11:10AM on 06/28/08