Cult cookie favourites would have to be homemade.
I will accept homemade as long as it's not a recipe you can make yourself. Something your Tia makes for Easter would work.
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DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 12:41:30 pm PDT #5466 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anne W. - Oct 07, 2007 12:43:17 pm PDT #5467 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Cult cookie favorite: Berger cookies from Baltimore. Basically, they're not so much a cookie as a nearly inconspicuous, vaguely shortbready thing that is a vehicle for gobs and gobs of fudge icing.
Should not be consumed without milk.
sarameg - Oct 07, 2007 12:43:45 pm PDT #5468 of 10001
I can get Anna's in Safeway, as well as IKEA, so I don't know if that one counts.
sarameg - Oct 07, 2007 12:44:48 pm PDT #5469 of 10001
Oh god, Bergers. I had them ONCE. They're a sort of worst nightmare for someone who doesn't like much sweetness.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2007 12:46:52 pm PDT #5470 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will accept homemade as long as it's not a recipe you can make yourself. Something your Tia makes for Easter would work.
In that, case Eccles cakes. They are basically pie crust with a lemony raisin filling, made as a bar cookie. YUMMERS. My grandmother makes them best, but my parents can collaborate to make a good version -- my dad is the pastry chef, but my mom knows what it should taste like.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2007 12:51:15 pm PDT #5471 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, this is kind of hilarious. What I described above is not at all the Eccles cake of wikipedia. What I'm talking about is much more like a Chorley cake, apparently.
OK, one more. It's a slightly lazier version of this Eccles cake.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 12:52:32 pm PDT #5472 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I can get Anna's in Safeway, as well as IKEA, so I don't know if that one counts.
Dang! Not culty enough. But I like the answers I'm getting.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 12:55:12 pm PDT #5473 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From Jesse's link:
Also related to the Chorley cake is East Lancashire's "Sad Cake"
"'Ere you go, dearie. Have a cup of tea with me and some sad cake."
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2007 12:56:29 pm PDT #5474 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Black and white cookie, from any real NYC-area bakery. They've only got packaged ones around here, as far as I can tell, and they just aren't the same.
meara - Oct 07, 2007 1:02:46 pm PDT #5475 of 10001
Yeah, Anna's are available in a lot of grocery stores--they're quite yummy, and the ginger thins are good too.
I mostly like cookies i can make myself. I was just at Whole Foods with Plei and family, and they had samples of some oatmeal butterscotch cookies that were better than the ones I made. But EVILLY, they did not have them for sale!! They claimed they did, but they weren't in the cookie cabinet. I had to buy a couple other kinds, to soothe myself.