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Personalised Cookies

Khadija

By Khadija
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Khadija

Khadija

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I am an above-average home-cook, but certainly no baker. I do a few sweet things reasonably well, and that's about it. Whenever I make chocolate chip cookies they get rave reviews (I usually use the CI approach, sometimes the Neiman Marcus).

I am currently making up a cook-book as a parting gift to my recent ex-house-mates. The book will contain almost exclusively savory recipes, based on meals we ate together in our house. However, I want to add a couple of "bonus" recipes. One of my house-mates is a sweets fiend. She loves cookies, in particular, although I've never seen her bake anything. I want to develop a personalised cookie for her, and one for her partner (the other housemate).

For the first cookie, I'm thinking of making chocolate chip cookie dough, and using personalised "add-ins." My idea is:

Cookie #1 (CI dough, no chocolate):

Caramel Candy Bits, Cashews, Slivers of Candied Ginger (room-mate is sweet, understated, elegant, but a bit feisty)

The second cookie, I'm not sure about. Second room-mate is very kind, funny, warm, homey, traditional (in a WASPY kind of way), and boyish. I'm thinking about just making chocolate chip cookies with the addition of peanut butter chips (NM oatmeal-based dough). Or peanut-butter chocolate chip cookies. But these seem boring. Is there any way to incorporate mint? I also might do a peanut butter cookie with bits of bacon.

Advice on this project would be much appreciated!

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SundaySous

SundaySous

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Bacon in a cookie, you are truly a visionary.

Ideas? Got nothing.

"And in the meantime, listen to your appetite and play with your food."

Alton Brown, Good Eats

patris

patris

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Ooooh, those ideas sound good. My mom always added several handfuls of crunched up cornflakes to her chocolate chip cookies - the basic Toll House recipe - which did 2 things:

1. made the dough stretch farther (there were 8 of us kids, and we ate a LOT!); and

2. gave the cookies an extra crunchy, salty greasiness that is 100 percent un-resistable.

Basic, trusted recipe, enhanced for flavor and practicality, and hauntingly tasty.

Patty

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