Cookies of the Week: The Old Fashioned Sugar Cookie
The Old Fashioned Sugar Cookie
The secret to the old fashioned sugar cookie, apparently, is using baking soda and powder. One provides the lift, the other just a bit of gas to burst the tops to that crackly texture. I think the sugar cookie, when chewy in the center and crunchy on the outside, is one of the best cookies in the universe.
But still, I had to mess with it.
First, the recipe I used, from Cook’s Illustrated, had additional alternate recipes, chai and coconut lime, which I made, and then Mum brought me habanero cane sugar, and I thought, "What do I do with this?" Voila. Then I thought, "Well, you could crush shit and put it in the sugar," so I did.
Today you can sample a variety of flavours (listed respectively above left to right): plain, hazelnut, coconut lime, chai, mint & absinthe, and chocolate habanero. See below for sampling offerings and ingredients.
The habanero ones have a little kick. I can eat them, and I am not a big spice tolerant person, but I do like spice. I used cabernet wine flour in them to aid the cocoa, and that is why they didn’t rise and flatten as well. They’re more cakey, but not much. Not like a red velvet or anything. Still very much a cookie.
Ingredients: ALL COOKIES CONTAIN-sugar, cream cheese, vegetable oil, butter, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, milk, baking soda, flour. VARIED ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: hazelnuts, cocoa powder, habanero cane sugar, cabernet wine flour, mint & absinthe tea, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, shredded coconut, lime juice, lime zest.
Price: $10/dozen
Available:
CHOCOLATE HABANERO--13
PLAIN-- 16
HAZELNUT--18
MINT & ABSINTHE-- 27
LIME COCONUT-- 19
CHAI-- 21
Select in divisors of 12, barring 12. So, 3 of 4 kinds, 4 of 3 kinds, 2 of 6 kinds, 6 of 2 kinds.
PAYMENT: If you want something, comment here! Then when I give the okay, paypal the fundage to amandr at gmail dot com.
The secret to the old fashioned sugar cookie, apparently, is using baking soda and powder. One provides the lift, the other just a bit of gas to burst the tops to that crackly texture. I think the sugar cookie, when chewy in the center and crunchy on the outside, is one of the best cookies in the universe.
But still, I had to mess with it.
First, the recipe I used, from Cook’s Illustrated, had additional alternate recipes, chai and coconut lime, which I made, and then Mum brought me habanero cane sugar, and I thought, "What do I do with this?" Voila. Then I thought, "Well, you could crush shit and put it in the sugar," so I did.
Today you can sample a variety of flavours (listed respectively above left to right): plain, hazelnut, coconut lime, chai, mint & absinthe, and chocolate habanero. See below for sampling offerings and ingredients.
The habanero ones have a little kick. I can eat them, and I am not a big spice tolerant person, but I do like spice. I used cabernet wine flour in them to aid the cocoa, and that is why they didn’t rise and flatten as well. They’re more cakey, but not much. Not like a red velvet or anything. Still very much a cookie.
Ingredients: ALL COOKIES CONTAIN-sugar, cream cheese, vegetable oil, butter, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, milk, baking soda, flour. VARIED ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: hazelnuts, cocoa powder, habanero cane sugar, cabernet wine flour, mint & absinthe tea, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, shredded coconut, lime juice, lime zest.
Price: $10/dozen
Available:
CHOCOLATE HABANERO--13
PLAIN-- 16
HAZELNUT--18
MINT & ABSINTHE-- 27
LIME COCONUT-- 19
CHAI-- 21
Select in divisors of 12, barring 12. So, 3 of 4 kinds, 4 of 3 kinds, 2 of 6 kinds, 6 of 2 kinds.
PAYMENT: If you want something, comment here! Then when I give the okay, paypal the fundage to amandr at gmail dot com.