mountain of cookies

It's turkey lurkey cookie time!

As I am sure we are all aware, The Cookie Competition took place today in Beaver Creek, CO, where I am not exactly roughing it for Thanksgiving. And, as I am not a skier or very fond of the cold, it is only for such an event that I would brave the extreme chill and leave my seat by the fire. The cookies, they must be tasted!

The finalists, clockwise from top-left were; Black Diamond Chocolate Chip Cookie, Powder Day Delight, Caramel Explosion, Crazy Kota's Killer Chocolate Chip Cookie, and The Founder's Favorite.

Caramel Explosion got my vote but The Founder's Favorite was a close second. Thanks to the Vail Daily, the recipes (written to bake in altitude) for my picks follow.

peanut butter jelly time

Sandwich cookies.

Cookie sandwich.

all in flavor

Once upon quite some time ago, I took a trip to Ruby et Violette and bought a few cookies.

I was enchanted by the selection of flavors and can only recall that Carrot Cake and Lemon White Chocolate were most excellent.

Soon enough, I plan to venture back and try many more.

And I'll live happily ever after.

hall-oreo-ween

I lovelovelove Oreos, particularly Halloween Oreos. With the orange creme, they are the best.

And(!), they come in five boo-rific shapes which, I think, is supposed to be a good thing.

Boo-rific indeed.

mallo out

It's one of the most wonderful times of the year!

Mallomars are back on our local grocer's shelves!

Due to their heat sensitivity, Mallomars have a season that starts about now and runs until it gets warm again. While I really like summer, I also really like Mallomars--so the balance of life is maintained pretty well for me through this transitional period.

After months of idleness, the time is now(!) to hunt, gather, and begin stockpiling for summer.

going compostal

Forget the flora, nourish yourself! This cookie combines coffee grounds with all sorts of random snacks, savory and sweet, to form one large eco-treat.

The recipe for such a cookie was floating all about the internet a while ago so you can easily make it yourself if you can't get to Milk Bar.

I was glad to be able to buy one from the source and save some partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil-- because we wouldn't want that to go to waste.

c'est la vie bohème

I have been quite nomadic recently. I moved from out of town to downtown to uptown before I moved into my own space midtown. In the uptown apartment, as far as I can tell, whenever someone new comes [or there is butter in the refrigerator], there is baking. Shortly after I arrived, we made these Bohemian Chocolate Cookies.

Perhaps these are bohemian because there are no eggs and you can eat lots of the dough and not worry about getting food poisoning--and I suppose that a mind free of worry is quite bohemian.


But I like to live on the edge and when we made cupcakes (a new roommate was flying in) I tried the egg-inclusive batter--and lived to move life to my new home the next day.

the benefits of unemployment

At my ex-employer's cafeteria there were many basic options for cookie consumers; chocolate chip, peanut butter, white chocolate macadamia, chocolate chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and sugar.

It is a perfectly acceptable list aside from the fact that they did not have M&M cookies. And M&M cookies are really excellent.


Luckily, now I am not limited by an employer's work hours and cookie choices and I can venture to acquire any cookie in the city whenever I choose.

Me and my unemployment cookie took in the end of another deskless day.

new to new york

I was welcomed to New York with a quintessential New York City cookie.


but it was really a black and white cupcake,

because New York is magical like that.

Or at least this ceiling is.

garden of eatin'

I have a pretty unimpressive track record with plant care. I have had a cactus die on my watch, unknowingly misted flowers with spray-on sunscreen, and given a begonia heat exhaustion by placing it atop a radiator. A green thumb I do not have, but it is fit for baking.

Thumbprints with a lemon white chocolate filling.
I'd be a far more successful gardener if cookies were plants...

build me up cookiecup

Everyone is jumping on the cupcake train these days...even cookies.

Found this peanut butter and chocolate gem at Allegro Hearth.

A doughy center PLUS frosting, life is good.

got me looking so Craisin love

I think I would like to go to the Ocean Spray cranberry bog, as featured in harvesting commercials. It seems like a fun adventure to wade amongst cranberries and I am incredibly fond of Craisins.

As I was snacking on handfuls of Craisins the other day, I noticed a recipe for Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies on the back of the bag and decided it was time to eat some more Craisins bake some cookies.

my blog, my rules

my birthday.

I interrupt the usual feed to share my birthday. Don't fret, there are cookie pieces involved.

It was made clear, by me, that there should be a cake with my name on it this year.

Oreo Cookies 'n Cream, natch.

wafering affections

Wafer cookies have always been fine by me.

Same with most any game in which Mario features prominently.

Here we go!!!

reese's piece of mind

I went north to go south. By that I mean, I went to Boston to go to South End Buttery*.


I couldn't turn down a peanut butter cookie sprinkled with Reese's Pieces. As one would expect coming from a place named as this bakery is, the cookie was divinely buttery and generally decadent--well worth the trip.


* I went to Boston to see a friend and he took me there. He knows how much I love cookies because we've been friends a long time, he follows my blog, and I reminded him at least nine times in the first day of my visit.

get my fill

In my package of Double Stuf I found one Oreo with an upside down cookie imprinting the Oreo design into the filling (pictured above) and I had an Aha! moment.

As an Oreo filling lover it was clear to me that Double Stuf Single Cookiee should be the next Nabisco offering.

You're welcome.

Oreo my darlin'

I am completely enamored of Double Stuf Oreos. And I believe them to be greater than just 2x a Single Oreo. But are they actually? I wasn't confident, so I decided to stack some cookies...

mooning over macaroons

I finally bought one (well, two--but I sent one on a road trip) of those Le Pain Quotidien macaroons I've heard such amazing things about.

Sometimes people are confused about macaroons, so let's have a lightening quick lesson. This is a coconut macaroon which is not to be confused with a french macaron (I am also quite fond of those).

The coconut macaroon was quite crunchy on the outside and really coconut-y and soft on the inside.

I also bought a roll. But this is not Roll-ing with Allison, so that is all I will say about that.

Baking history...

Allison's DIYE (Do It Your Elf):




Monumentally tasty too.

starry eyed

This weekend I made a trip to Prantl's Bakery. I was excited for the burnt almond torte, the rum balls (disappointingly, they were no-shows), but mostly the star cookies.
If you have 45 cents and can get to Prantl's, I can make your day. Get a star cookie. Or eight. They are the best sugar cookies I know--and I know a lot of cookies.
I'm starstruck.

bunny business

Oh man, I love candy. And sales. So you may think I would be all over day-after-holiday candy sales. You would be correct.

I get really excited about candy sales and often end up with way more candy than I can consume. Which explains why, over a month after day-after-Easter, I still had a herd of Reester Bunnies around to fashion into cookies.

no scout about it

While I have been through many cycles of girl scout--I wasn't, I was, I wasn't, I was, I am not--I have always loved girl scout cookies.

Currently, I have no girl scout connections but I do have an oven. And am old enough to use it. So I made my own Samoa Bars.

Quite the enjoyable substitute for a girl with no scout.

the reason I should always go to work late

Every weekday, my apartment building puts out freshly baked cookies.

I know this because when I first moved in they told me so as they motioned towards the plate in the lobby.

The thing is--I don't have the chance to enjoy one of these cookies most days. I get to smell them baking when I leave for work but, aside from the week after comment cards were returned, they are never physically available to me.

The building must be doing a lot of 5pm apartment showing now because for the past few days, upon arriving home from work, I have had my choice of cookie.

I think white chocolate macadamia suits my décor nicely.

hooray for[tune] cookies!

After thinking about cookies for many years, and about starting a blog for many months, the day is finally here--day 1 of my cookie blog!


As the cookie suggests, I should have started a long time ago.