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Well, I'm back on prednisone, a steroid drug that makes me have some serious cravings.
This time around, it's cookies.
So, we have threads about comfort foods, pies, candy, but have yet to talk about what I think (well at this moment, until the next craving) can be the perfect goodie.
There are so many different variations, each bit can be a tiny morsel packed with flavor. Now, I like a homemade chocolate chip cookie, but I don't go out of my way for one.
Right now my favorite cookie is made at a bake shoppe in the Prudential Center here in Boston. Lucky for me and my waistline, it's not that easy for me to get there at the moment. They have a white chocolate, macadamia nut soft baked, fresh from the oven with a hint of lemon. They are always served warm to the point of almost crumbling. The big hunks of white chocolate are firm on the outside, but nice and warm and melty with a bite. Whole pieces of macadamia nuts are dispersed throughout, giving this soft cookie just the right amount of crunch. I prefer a soft cookie over a crunchy one.
I don't know if anyone has access to Au Bon Pain, but they have quite a good cookie selection too. Hemingway is partial to their butter toffee kind. Nice and soft with small pieces of toffee and a hint of mollasses. They also make a great soft oatmeal raisin with the perfect amount of cinimmon. On the crunchier side, they have a lime sugar cookie, with a sprinkle of sugar on the top, crunchy on the outside but still soft in the middle.
One of my favorite cookies from childhood is a recipe made by my Austrian great grandmother, that my mom still makes exactly the same. They are called Mun cookies, they are a butter and almond based cookie in the shape of a crescent with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Sometimes, my mom dips one end into chocolate, but I prefer mine without.
Starbucks makes a great, big, soft shortbread sugar cookie that is really good. Borders bookstore cafe shoppe also has a soft baked white chocolate, lemon, and macadamia nut cookie that is really yummy too.
Our supermarket has a decent bakery. They make a soft baked sugar cookie with frosting and sprinkles. The color of the frosting always coincides with the season. I'm sure these piles of sugar are meant for little kids, but I still like them anyway. They are really quite sweet and packed with sugar.
For boxed cookies I like the Girl Scouts Caramel pin wheels, and am partial to a Vienna Finger every now and again. Nutter Butters are good too. But I prefer soft, fresh baked rather than boxed.
Still, for now, my favorite are the white chocolate macadamia nut fresh baked from the Prudential Center bake shoppe, wish I could remember the name of the place. I'm gonna go there tomorrow, and take all pre-cautions to try and not buy their entire stock of them!
So, anyone have a cookie downfall?? What's your favorite cookie, be it an old time favorite, a packaged kind from the store, or some new concoction that you have created in your own kitchen?
This time around, it's cookies.
So, we have threads about comfort foods, pies, candy, but have yet to talk about what I think (well at this moment, until the next craving) can be the perfect goodie.
There are so many different variations, each bit can be a tiny morsel packed with flavor. Now, I like a homemade chocolate chip cookie, but I don't go out of my way for one.
Right now my favorite cookie is made at a bake shoppe in the Prudential Center here in Boston. Lucky for me and my waistline, it's not that easy for me to get there at the moment. They have a white chocolate, macadamia nut soft baked, fresh from the oven with a hint of lemon. They are always served warm to the point of almost crumbling. The big hunks of white chocolate are firm on the outside, but nice and warm and melty with a bite. Whole pieces of macadamia nuts are dispersed throughout, giving this soft cookie just the right amount of crunch. I prefer a soft cookie over a crunchy one.
I don't know if anyone has access to Au Bon Pain, but they have quite a good cookie selection too. Hemingway is partial to their butter toffee kind. Nice and soft with small pieces of toffee and a hint of mollasses. They also make a great soft oatmeal raisin with the perfect amount of cinimmon. On the crunchier side, they have a lime sugar cookie, with a sprinkle of sugar on the top, crunchy on the outside but still soft in the middle.
One of my favorite cookies from childhood is a recipe made by my Austrian great grandmother, that my mom still makes exactly the same. They are called Mun cookies, they are a butter and almond based cookie in the shape of a crescent with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Sometimes, my mom dips one end into chocolate, but I prefer mine without.
Starbucks makes a great, big, soft shortbread sugar cookie that is really good. Borders bookstore cafe shoppe also has a soft baked white chocolate, lemon, and macadamia nut cookie that is really yummy too.
Our supermarket has a decent bakery. They make a soft baked sugar cookie with frosting and sprinkles. The color of the frosting always coincides with the season. I'm sure these piles of sugar are meant for little kids, but I still like them anyway. They are really quite sweet and packed with sugar.
For boxed cookies I like the Girl Scouts Caramel pin wheels, and am partial to a Vienna Finger every now and again. Nutter Butters are good too. But I prefer soft, fresh baked rather than boxed.
Still, for now, my favorite are the white chocolate macadamia nut fresh baked from the Prudential Center bake shoppe, wish I could remember the name of the place. I'm gonna go there tomorrow, and take all pre-cautions to try and not buy their entire stock of them!
So, anyone have a cookie downfall?? What's your favorite cookie, be it an old time favorite, a packaged kind from the store, or some new concoction that you have created in your own kitchen?
