URBAN LEGEND $250 Cookie Recipe

[lost_cosmos]

eta- i am a type 1/juvenile diabetic so i never even THOUGHT to see if this was an urban legend deal folks as i rarely bake as its just me so i only do very few dessert recipes as it is

Comments

[nixydust]

Actually.. it made way to our mailboxes more like 15 years ago.

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

Alton fans are fans of research!

[october_eve]

Heh, you beat me to the link. =D

[lizblizz]

Same here. Hard to believe people still believe what they read in forwarded emails!

[lost_cosmos]

it wasn't forwarded to me. it was from a new person that got my email address from a holiday exchange.

anyways, i updated the post.

[october_eve]

Red velvet cakes are yummy, too. ^_^

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

Don't feel bad...I believed that story too, when I found it in a USO cookbook in the early 90s. I felt really silly later because I had already passed it on to several people when I found out. I almost didn't comment because I didn't want you to feel the same way, but I wish someone had told me earlier.

[lost_cosmos]

i'm a juvenile diabetic so i don't even bake THAT often anything that doesn't have splenda in it so its not something i even thought to research.

and 15 years ago i was 15 years old lol. i'll pass the info along to the person who gave me the email though.

[october_eve]

I was 19 at the time, and the whole story was printed out in a cookbook! So I thought it was true.

If you have any, I'm always on the lookout for yummy low-sugar dessert recipes...my boyfriend's parents are diabetic and I never know what to bake for them. So far everything we've tried by just googling for recipes doesn't taste very good. =P

[lost_cosmos]

i'm a pretty good cook so i tend to take regular recipes and alter out the sugar for splenda but i have a few tried and true that i adore like flourless pb cookies.

1cup splenda
1cup peanut butter [crunchy works better than smooth but either will do]
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg

blend together bake at 375 for 10-13 minutes. squish down with a fork. yield approx 15 cookies.

splenda.ca has an excellent recipe index as well for desserts. odds are if you google for a recipe specifically that is diabetic friendly these days you can find one as long as you use those terms or with no sugar in the search.

[strickens_girl]

It's so fake but the recipe does make really tasty cookies. *g*

[autumn_sylver]

I heard this story a few years ago from a woman in the theater group I was in at the time who got this recipe in her email. She said that the person this happened to got the recipe from Mrs. Fields, but the story was the same. It makes sense that it's an urban legend.
She brought in some of the cookies she made with the recipe, and they did taste just like Mrs. Fields cookies.

[nukeguy04]

I heard this story about 11 years ago they were suppose to be neiman marcus cookies. A few years later my mother got it from a friend and was suckered into actualy making them. All I can say is don't aside from being expensive to make they are about as thick and dense as a brick.