Cellar Cookie Exchange
We have upgraded from an experiment! Several Cellarites have expressed interest in a cookie exchange, so here we go.
Cookies will be swapped and there will be much rejoicing and possibly weight gain in Cellar land.
Step 1:
PM me by Monday, February 2nd with:
-Address for cookie delivery
-How many people you are interested in baking for
By Friday, February 6th, I will PM you back with a list of your cookiecipients and their addresses.
Step 2
Bake cookies!
Ship out half a dozen cookies (adjust if your cookies are tiny or enormous) to each cookiecipient by Monday, February 23rd. Recipes are optional.
Step 3
Profit.
Eat and enjoy, and take pictures for posterity.
Note: Due to the perishable nature of cookies, the cookie exchange is going to have to be 'merkins only so that no furriners get screwed with postage and/or stale cookies.
great!
i want to mail to jinx! i get a discount on postage....
Note: Due to the perishable nature of cookies, the cookie exchange is going to have to be 'merkins only so that no furriners get screwed with postage and/or stale cookies.
No worries, mate - I'll whip up a batch of grandma Beestie's famous fruit-cake cookies for our buds across the pond.
Are you calling me a fruitcake?!
I'd love to get cookies if you're happy to send.
But I might PM Limey and see if she wants to be part of the exchange with me. Okay we won't have any surprises, but we'll still be taking part in all other aspects.
cool...and the aussies could do it too
I don't mind coordinating addresses for those, like Beestie, who would like to trade with someone on another continent. I just didn't want anyone to get hit with surprise postage.
Just let me know when you drop your PM if you're up for international trades. :)
Are you calling me a fruitcake?!
I'd love to get cookies if you're happy to send.
But I might PM Limey and see if she wants to be part of the exchange with me. Okay we won't have any surprises, but we'll still be taking part in all other aspects.
Ahem - beat you to it. Shall we ask Dana if she's in, too?
Aye, although 3 people, 1 cookie exchange...?
How you do that?
easy ...
each cooks enough for two people and sends them in two directions
OR
each cooks enough for one and sends it to the person on the left (i.e. you to me, me to Dana, Dana to you or whichever other variant comes out of the bag)
Any other Brits interested can join in the chain ...
Of course, I don't have a logical mind :)
The more the merrier, esp if it includes a good old bird like D.
BTW - making the biscuit top a crumble really worked on the Apple Cake front.
Except that my Mum declared it too spicy. Mot spicy as in hot, just spicy as in two teaspoons of Mixed Spice and two of Cinnamon. I thought it was lovely, and well salvaged by yours truly. Dads just et it.
Yeah, I'm in. Domestic or International.
I'm gonna make some coooooookies
And you can't have none....
Disclaimer - this does not apply to Limey and/ or DanaC
This offer is subject to availability
In all seriousness, I have a recipe, I have 90% of the ingredients (important on a budget) and Mum says if I make them she'll cover the cost of postage, as she understands that she'll probably eat most of what we receive :)
Us UK Dwellars are outside the official exchange, but will be complying with the deadlines so that we are joining in, in our own way.
All excited now!
Is there anything your mother doesn't eat?
Butter beans.
That's about it.
Honestly, I would have warned you otherwise ;)
Butter beans.
That's about it.
Honestly, I would have warned you otherwise ;)
DAyum ... I'll have to have a rethink ... :D
I first read that question in the typical American sarcastic usage, along the lines of, "Is there anything your mother doesn't eat?!" as if to imply that she is horribly gluttonous. I am glad to discover limey wasn't just insulting SG's mother for no apparent reason. :)
lol...I went back and looked and see just what you mean, Clod. I had to make myself not think of it as the sarcastic American phrase.
Two (or three) nations separated by a common language
+
lack of aural cues in email/bulletin-board posts
=
:3eye:
Last call for cookie exchange! If you are interested in participating, please send me a PM in the next day or two with your address and how many people you'd like to bake for.
We have two people up for international exchange, so far, so if anyone abroad would like in, let me know!
My monster cookies were made last night, and will be dropped off at the post office on my way out of work. Hopefully they don't arrive as just bags of crumbs. Although that might make a nice ice cream topping...hmmmm.
Woo! Got in LabRat's monster cookies and already ate one in the time it took for me to get from the mailbox to my front door. They are delicious! Got here safe and sound, not crumbled at all. They're like.. peanut chocolate chip, kind of? Hard to describe. They are definitely "monster" cookies, though -- they're huge! Pictures shortly. Thanks, LR! :D
Got my cookies from Leah today...yummy...oatmeal choco chip m&m cookies..they are really good...pics soon!
Nom nom!
One picture of the cookies (minus the one I had already eaten) in their packaging, and one picture of a cookie in my hand -- so big!
I got my cookies too! They were sooooo good. Hubby got into 2 of them before I could even enjoy one. Here are the Pics....cookies in the box, going into my belly, and whats left. After my husband saw the name on the box, he got a little worried...:D .
How nice to see you, Pico! You're gorgeous.
Aw shucks. Im just me, not gorgeous.
I just noticed how big that cookie looks! Im sure its just the perspective, but it looks almost bigger than my face .
You're a doll...either in the physical sense or in the sense of being an awesome person.
That is one damn big cookie!
I think it takes one to know one...:p .
But really Shawnee, you are very sweet. Thank you...:blush:
It takes a big cookie to know a big cookie? ;)
I'm not sweet. I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.
Puh...you just want to watch.
My Dad used to work at Amersham BioSciences!
He used to handle radioactive materials...
Limey - I admit I haven't made them yet :(
But you will get them by the end of this week.
Damn - do I still have your address? Best PM me just in case!
Great efforts so far people.
And Pico - you are cute, the sight of you lifted my heart. Or maybe it was the huge cookie. Hard to tell sometimes.
I just read this thread :p
Ok. Much as I'd love to participate, I just don't have the headspace for cooking at the moment. Proper cooking, such as baking I would usually go and use my bro's kitchen. Mine just isn't suitable. It'd be like baking in a caravan: possible but fraught.
Also...they'd probably get cooked and then not posted. You guys have no idea how big a thing it was that I got my act together and sent an SS gift. *chuckles* though the card I bought in order to post separately from the intehwebz gift, never got posted. Written in, yes. Posted, not so.
At some point, I will get the book pack sent to you SG...but your guess as to when is probably as good as mine ;P
That is one damn big cookie!
It's the small hands...
[COLOR=White]some say it's why her husband married her[/COLOR]
Yeah!!! ::clap clap clap::
I was out of town over the weekend, so I didn't have a chance to mention 2 things.
One, after I got the boxes all taped up I realized that I totally forgot to put in the recipes. PM me if you want it, and I'll get it to you.
Two, there were 2 bags for a reason. One contained a set that were baked 2 minutes longer, so they were crunchier than usual. The softer set was how I prefer them, but our elderly neighbor likes 'em crunchy, so I figured that I would make them both ways.
When I make these, I use a 1/3 cup of dough for each one :D.
I cannot BELIEVE I missed this.
I cannot BELIEVE I missed this.
Serves you right for getting banned.
I wanta cookie but I don't deserve one.
*sob*
My cookies are going to be sent out on deadline day, Monday, because this week has been my first week teaching and I am absolutely EXHAUSTED. I'm looking forward to baking on the weekend, though, when I have a little free time.
yeah....we're baking sunday too.
we got labrat's GIANT FUCKING cookies today......quite tasty! we ate them before we could take pics, though.
[LIST=1]
[*]Came home from shopping to find a zazzle box
[*]Thought "Whoops, must have ordered Cellar Mug when pi$$ed"
[*]Opened box to find non-mug-shaped foil parcel
[*]Ate two slightly squishy, definitely cookie-textured choc chip 'n' ?peanut? cookies while looking for the camera
[*]YUM
[*]Baking Sunday Sundae!
[/LIST]
NO! No peanut badness!
I just think I added too much salt :(
We only have one salt cellar in the house (for use on chips) and it takes a bit of shaking to get it out. So some may have escaped the teaspoon into the mix. How do I know? I held six back. Greedy pig. Me, Mum, Dad and Grandad ate them. You wouldn't deny pensioners a sweet treat now would you? ;)
Am not great at sweet baking I'm afraid.
Oh - they are "American style" in homage to the Cellar. They are sposed to be chewy. Would be biscuits otherwise.
Mine are going out today if I get to the post office in time, otherwise...Monday. I really hope they survive shipping.
NO! No peanut badness!
I just think I added too much salt :(
We only have one salt cellar in the house (for use on chips) and it takes a bit of shaking to get it out. So some may have escaped the teaspoon into the mix. How do I know? I held six back. Greedy pig. Me, Mum, Dad and Grandad ate them. You wouldn't deny pensioners a sweet treat now would you? ;)
Am not great at sweet baking I'm afraid.
Oh - they are "American style" in homage to the Cellar. They are sposed to be chewy. Would be biscuits otherwise.
I liked the saltyness, actually (and I'd forgotten about you and peanuts!). I think they're great!
Mine are
called cookies, but ... well you'll just have to wait and see :cool: !
I'm baking today.... after I clean the house and grocery shop.
I'm baking today.... after I clean the house and grocery shop.
I hope the grocery shop pays you!
Cheers Limey - they went down well here too. Although Mum, being Mum just said, "... even Grandad liked them! Don't make any more." which passes as a compliment in her terms ;)
Sounds like our mom's would make great friends SG.
I'm gonna bake a bundt cake tomorrow.
I have a hankering for bundt cake---that is so weird.
bundt cake? you sure it's not pound cake?
that sounds really good.... some nice marbled pound cake and a cup of good coffee.
i got wood
bundt cake? you sure it's not pound cake?
that sounds really good.... some nice marbled pound cake and a cup of good coffee.
i got wood
No, not pound cake- a bundt---a pretty cake with a hole in the middle.
Bundt. Bundt.
It bothers me that there is a word that short and that common and I have absolutely no idea what it means or where it came from.
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The cake may have originated from The German Gugelhupf cakes.
Y'all sure do fun stuffs. I need to hang around and browse more. :D Anyways, looking forward to seeing some cookies!
No, not pound cake- a bundt---a pretty cake with a hole in the middle.
It bothers me that there is a word that short and that common and I have absolutely no idea what it means or where it came from.
No, not pound cake- a bundt---a pretty cake with a hole in the middle.
You need to read more ;)
Y'all sure do fun stuffs. I need to hang around and browse more. :D Anyways, looking forward to seeing some cookies!
Oh me too, me too!
In my hand!
Peanut butter and Pernod cookies, my favourite :yum:
[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller]
Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
[whispering to Aunt Freida]
Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!
Bundt at about 1:55.
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i am baking RFN
i hope it's a bundt cake
Lemon drop cookies have been baked and glazed! They will go into the mail afternoon and will hopefully reach their destinations by Wednesday/Thursday.
Sorry SG :o life intervened - I'm just off to turn on the oven NOW and will post tomorrow (Tuesday).
Yum yum, yum yum yum
Yummy yummy yum yum, yum yum yum...
Don't you worry bout a thing.
Dad and Grandad have no idea they are arriving, so it will be a lovely surprise for them regardless. Mum knows they are supposed to come, but she still, really, hasn't grasped the idea of the Cellar - despite everything. I suspect she still thinks this is some sort of cookie chain letter...
[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller]
Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
[whispering to Aunt Freida]
Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!
Yum yum, yum yum yum
Yummy yummy yum yum, yum yum yum...
Don't you worry bout a thing.
Dad and Grandad have no idea they are arriving, so it will be a lovely surprise for them regardless. Mum knows they are supposed to come, but she still, really, hasn't grasped the idea of the Cellar - despite everything. I suspect she still thinks this is some sort of cookie chain letter...
Baked - check
Lookin' good - check
Smellin' grea - check
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]tastin' fab - check[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Postin' tomorrer - checkeroo!
To be honest, your mum's not all that wrong, is she?
Baked - check
Lookin' good - check
Smellin' grea - check
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]tastin' fab - check[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Postin' tomorrer - checkeroo!
Wooooow! All excited!!!
To be honest, your mum's not all that wrong, is she?
She's Mrs McWrong from the wrong side of Wrong Town.
She can't understand a community which doesn't have face to face contact.
Cookies in the mail. Hope they get there in one piece! Err.... at least edible sized pieces.
[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller]
Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
[whispering to Aunt Freida]
Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!
Bundt at about 1:55.
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[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller]
Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
[whispering to Aunt Freida]
Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!
um...:o
Ummmm. Ermmm.
No wonder it sounded like a good idea.
ok, I shipped our cookies this AM. jinx and I had one cookiecipient in common, so I only had to send 5 boxes. I hope Wickedly Tastefull is still around....I sent her a PM cuz i haven't seen her on here in a couple weeks.....and got no reply.....still....cookies in the mail will hopefully jog her memory.
also, jinx got cookies today from Pico. I didn't open them.....that was difficult.
She was one of my recipients...but I swear the peanut butter in my cookies was clean!!!
I can't wait to get mine. :yum: I need *something* to go right for once.
Ahhhh.....thought cookie pix won't be posted til the 24th, but I went back a few pages and saw some. Yummy!
I got cookies in the mail today, Jim says they're from Pico & me - anyway they are delicious. I've never had them before.. chocolate chips and pecans and coconut... really, really good. Thank you!
they were very small. moar!
I'm glad you liked them! I saw the recipe online and since my three favorite ingredients were in it, I went for it!
Heres the recipe.
I'm sorry they were so small, but I needed them to fit into the paper cups because of the icing.
don't be sorry...i'm too fat anyway....i was just complimenting your cookies.
they taste a lot like the best girls scout cookies (used to be called Samoas)
I got cookies in the mail today, Jim says they're from Pico & me - anyway they are delicious. I've never had them before.. chocolate chips and pecans and coconut... really, really good. Thank you!
That look and sound absolutely yummy! I just may try the recipe one day. Well, uh...not until I lose these bulging 4 pounds. :p
Pico! Your cookies are absolutely delicious! I usually don't care for coconut, but these are wonderful. Thank you!
Thanks Chocolatl! I think im going to make another batch. I only frosted the ones I sent out and left the rest for the boys.
so...wickedly tasteful moved!
i got a pm back from her today.....i sent the cookies tuesday. she hasn't sent hers out yet.
who else was sending to her?
Me. Wouldnt her change of address handle it?
yeah my change of address will take care of it...ill get my cookies sent out this week...sorry bout the inconvience
I sent mine out Monday night, so they should be getting there today or tomorrow.
My cookiecipients were Wickedly_Tasteful, LabRat, and Jim and Jinx. No matter how random and scrambled I tried to make it, it always worked out so that someone got both Jim and Jinx -- mostly because we only had a few people participating in the first place. I sent y'all a double batch of cookies, for now, and will send along a second type some other time. :)
Jinx, i got your cookies. OMG...they are incredible. They are so fat they remind me of scones. Good job. They wont last long.
LJ, no wonder you thought my cookies were so small...:)
Jinx, i got your cookies. OMG...they are incredible.
Wow, that was quick, awesome!
I completely screwed up a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies I had planned to send to jinx. Something went horribly wrong.
So, I have come to a decision. I'm bringing in the BIG guns. I'm calling Mom and getting her recipie for a cookie she used to make back when she baked a lot. Yeah, I'm late but hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
I was actually losing weight until the boxes started up showing up in the mail. Damn y'all.
But they are all too delicious to pass up! Fantastic cookies!
I don't mind waiting. :headshake
Cookies from Choco in our mailbox today :) Super yummy lemon cookies. We had to open them in the car and sample them right away...
And I've got to say, the kids are really loving this idea.
Limey, Sundae got your cookies and they were delicious! She thanks you most heartily :)
I'm glad they got there without crumbling! I was worried that the padded envelope wouldn't be enough -- especially when the mail guy just THREW the envelope onto a pile. I was like "Hello?! What part of FRAGILE COOKIES did you not understand?!"
I am sad to report that we were not able to get pictures of Jim's chocolate chip cookies because we have already eaten them all. Seriously, best damned chocolate chip cookies I have ever had.
How'd you take the picture with the camera IN the picture. Damn you are gooood!.
Limey, Sundae got your cookies and they were delicious! She thanks you most heartily :)
Jollly good. I was beginning to worry that I'd poisoned her :greenface or that they'd not arrived. Is she deprived of innernets at the moment?
Not deprived no. She's just taking a little break, 'cause she feels the need to. She'll be back about soon.
Ohhhhh my - Jinx' cookies arrived today. Man, they were tasteeeeeeeeeee! House of Beestie was very pleased!
Here are some pics of the kids enjoying the cookies.
Mind you, these pictures were taken 8.13 seconds apart.
Awesome! I love the single crumb left on the platter....
I love the single crumb left on the platter....
They fought over that crumb. Sophia won with a reverse figure-four arm lock.
cellar cookie exchange is WIN
i like to see kids grinning like that.
.....worth it
Recieved Choco's lemon heaven's on Friday, and jim and jinx's Sat. The lemon ones remind me of my favorite bakery's lemon bars. Deeeelish!! Chocolate chip and the other ones, with the swirl chips were awesome too. Thankee!!!
Good thing I didn't put my 'fat pants' too high in the closet... :yum:
Limey I am so sorry.
If ever "cookies" needed to be photographed for posterity it was yours.
But I was not organised enough to sort it out before they went. Please bear in mind that I was troubled in mind and spirit when they arrived, so the joy they occasioned was extraordinary for me at the time.
Mum & I came home from our walk, all hot and sweaty and tired feet and all. And there on the stairs was a Zazzle box - the same Zazzle box which came from America with my mug in. The same Zazzle box which went to Scotland with Limey's cookies in. I love it when things are reused, so much better than recycling imo.
Dads was already excited - he loves anything through the post. Mum would have been too, but she seemed to think she had just been on some form of Death Walk, so when she heard it was cookies she groaned at the idea of walking them off. Dads on the other hand was even more excited that it was cookies and immediately put the kettle on.
Lo and behold, a recipe sheet, with the disingenuous "ingredients warning" as if it might contain bleurgh things. I ran into my parents with the news immediately, before even opening the cookies - look! Blue cheese and poppy seed!
It's true.
Bless Limey, she took my savoury tooth seriously and sent me savoury cookies. The ingredients made me blanch somewhat, due to their perceived fat content, but what the hell, they were small enough for a treat. Each cookie was a pale tan, a slight oval, with the edge rolled in poppy seeds. I'm horrid at estimating size - they were approx the length of my thumb across. And there were LOADS! I was really tight sending mine - I chose 6 of the best. Limey sent the whole batch (20+) apart from 2 snaffled from the ends because they were offcuts.
Anyway, the kettle was boiled, but sadly I had to remind my parents that it was Ash Wednesday - a day of fasting - and they couldn't have none. Hahaha, I sneaked one in while I was "putting them away for tomorrow". Lovely! Not cookies really of course. But with the taste and texture of a gourmet biscuit (in the UK meaning of the word) and really, really good. Crumbly, but not so much that they were dry. The cheese was an aftertaste and the poppy seeds (round the edge of each biscuit) gave a really lovely crunch. I had worried that they would be too rich and overpowering, but in fact they were subtle and very moreish. I'm not being a brown noser when I say I would expect to see those in an upmarket deli.
Anyway, next day, both my parents figured they were lovely on their own but even better with low fat soft cheese (Mum) or Extra Mature Canadian Cheddar (Dad). I ate a ration of two, with sliced apple. I am a good girl.
They were gone by Friday, without enough time for me to get organised enough to photograph them. Okay, enough time, not enough manners.
I feel a bit William Carlos Williams about it.
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the biscuits
that were in
the Roses tin
and which
I should probably
saved
for photos.
Forgive me
they were delicious
so crumby
and such cheese.
Absolutely no apologies necessary, SG. I got your message via Dana in this thread. I'm just glad you and you're family enjoyed them: I was afraid I'd poisoned you when I posted them to you and you fell silent :eek: ...
True, the ingredients list is a little scary but they're dead easy to make.
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"](Din't your grandpa get any?)[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Sundae is channelling William Carlos William there ;)
Beestie's excellent cookies arrived - yay!
They are super rich and delicious, thanks Beestie :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Wow! those look like delicious balls!
I have not recieved any other cookies. Did someone else besides Jim/jinx and Choco send to me and I did not recieve them?
I am asking because I recently found out that I never received a package sent to me in January. If another package is missing, I'm going to be raising hell with my postmaster. I've already had a face-to-face with my postman.
Thanks.
Wow! those look like delicious balls!
What a household - even Jinx has lovely balls!
I am asking because I recently found out that I never received a package sent to me in January. If another package is missing, I'm going to be raising hell with my postmaster. I've already had a face-to-face with my postman.
I didn't send any, but ftr my pressie from Ali did not arrive this year. I was so grumpy. She suggested I sniffed the postie (from which I guessed it was smellies) but I haven't dared, because I'm too scared he's
not the culprit (postman armpit anyone?!)
Oh Limey - Grandad likes sweet not savoury. But he can also be an awkward bugger about texture too (many sweet things are deemed too sticky). And just an awkward bugger overall sometimes. Well, he's 86, he's already lost his wife and favourite sister and he has Parkinsons. Life isn't a barrel of laughs I guess. We're not starving him though, I promise! Actually he had a fall this morning. Luckily just bruising, although he'll be stiff for a while. One of his carers was there, although there was a bit of panic because they couldn't get hold of Mum. But it was only because she was already on her way round. They're (my parents) in Hainault today - emptying out the last of Fatty Alice's stuff from her house as there's a buyer. Poor Mum & Dad. They won't get a penny more than anyone else when this will is settled, and yet they've had all the stress, the hassle and the expense of going back & forth to deal with. No wonder Alice made Mum the executor - she knew it would get done with her in charge.
Anyway, sorry.
Back to cookies.
I have not recieved any other cookies. Did someone else besides Jim/jinx and Choco send to me and I did not recieve them?
I am asking because I recently found out that I never received a package sent to me in January. If another package is missing, I'm going to be raising hell with my postmaster. I've already had a face-to-face with my postman.
Thanks.
You must be the other one on Wickedly Tasteful's list. She said she was having issues and would be sending them later. I've been waiting with not-so-bated breath.
ah well. newbs.
:eyebrow:
Hey, not all newbs...
793?
Not a newb.
Honest.
Loved & treasured x
Beestie's excellent cookies arrived - yay!
They are super rich and delicious, thanks Beestie :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Very glad you liked them!
I made 'em in the shape of balls to make Bri jealous. Nice to see that it worked. :D
[little bit OCD] But...they're not cookies if they're balls. Cookies and biscuits = flat. Theyhave to be called something else if they're round.
It's just not right. Things are supposed to be a certain way.... [/little bit OCD]
lol @ Dana - they're cookie balls silly!
Yes...then they're cookie balls...not cookies.
[eta] extremely delicious looking cookie balls that is
well now tyhat we have determined their gender. . .
Note from the cookie boss:
LabRat, your four cookie senders were me, Jim, Jinx, and Wickedly_Tasteful. Sounds like Wicked is having some issues after moving, so hopefully her cookies will be sent out in the near future. That should be the only box you're still waiting on.
[little bit OCD] But...they're not cookies if they're balls. Cookies and biscuits = flat. Theyhave to be called something else if they're round.
It's just not right. Things are supposed to be a certain way.... [/little bit OCD]
I actually thought the same thing. But since I completely screwed up the first batch, I decided getting Jinx some cookies that didn't suck trumped the flat cookie rule. :blush:
Thats funny, I was considering doing a batch of bar cookies but worried that they wouldn't be considered 'real' cookies.
OK, which one of you is the cookie Nazi?
*raises hand*
Actually, no I'm not. I just like things to be proper. And named accordingly.
Alright, I'm gonna need some sort of citation showing that cookies are supposed to be flat.
From Mirian Webster online dictionary:
1: a small flat or slightly raised cake
Note, slightly raised, not spherical....
Thought I'd dispute the 'cake' part of that definition. Biscuit is very different to cake imo.
from
here
Cookies are broadly classified according to how they are formed, including at least these categories:
* Drop cookies are made from a relatively soft dough that is dropped by spoonfuls onto the baking sheet. During baking, the mounds of dough spread and flatten. Chocolate chip cookies (Toll House cookies), oatmeal (or oatmeal raisin) cookies and rock cakes are popular examples of drop cookies.
* Refrigerator cookies are made from a stiff dough that is refrigerated to become even stiffer. The dough is typically shaped into cylinders which are sliced into round cookies before baking.
* Molded cookies are also made from a stiffer dough that is molded into balls or cookie shapes by hand before baking. Snickerdoodles and peanut butter cookies are examples of molded cookies.
* Rolled cookies are made from a stiffer dough that is rolled out and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter. Gingerbread men are an example.
* Pressed cookies are made from a soft dough that is extruded from a cookie press into various decorative shapes before baking. Spritzgebäck are an example of a pressed cookie.
* Bar cookies consist of batter or other ingredients that are poured or pressed into a pan (sometimes in multiple layers), and cut into cookie-sized pieces after baking. Brownies are an example of a batter-type bar cookie, while Rice Krispie treats are a bar cookie that doesn't require baking, perhaps similar to a cereal bar. In British English, bar cookies are known as "tray bakes".
* Sandwich cookies are rolled or pressed cookies that are assembled as a sandwich with a sweet filling. Fillings may be with marshmallow, jam, or icing. The Oreo cookie, made of two chocolate cookies with a vanilla icing filling is an example.
* Fried cookies including traditional cookies such as the krusczyki, rosettes and fattigmann as well as a newer American trend of deep-frying ordinary drop cookie dough.
So you would agree that a small, flat cake isn't a cookie?
If it's a cake it's a cake, if it's a cookie it's a cookie.
BTW, Dana, I almost bought a package of Digestives...I saw them at the World Market Cost Plus store.
Oh I love digestives. They're full of crumbly goodness.
Russian Tea Cookies are in shape of balls. They are indeed cookies.
While the idea that controversy could arise from the cookie exchange is not a complete surprise, I have to admit that I didn't think it would come from the shape of the cookie.
;)
While the idea that controversy could arise from the cookie exchange is not a complete surprise, I have to admit that I didn't think it would come from the shape of the cookie.
;)
Those are fighting words, you rascal.
*slaps Beestie with a soft leather glove*
Swords or pistols?
If it's a cake it's a cake, if it's a cookie it's a cookie.
what is
this then?
Great job handling this exchange Choco! I think all in all it was extremely successful. Thanks guys!
Hear, hear! All hail Choco - Queen of the Cellar Cookie Exchange!
Yeah! It was fun and I would definitely do it again.
what is this then?
It's YUMMY! :frog:
::bow, bow:: I have enjoyed my tenure as Cellar Cookie Boss! It was a lot of fun, and very yummy. The Cellar sure has some master bakers in residence. I just wish I had taken more pictures before eating all the cookies. :o
LJ/Choco, thanks for the info. I was getting a little paranoid.
Yes, most excellent job, cookie nazi!! ;)
Anybody wanna try this with pies?
Choco, you didn't handle the UK end of the cookie exchange, but kudos to you for the organising you did. And further apols to Limey for having a breakdown in the middle which meant no photo documentation.
Pies? Oh yes! But I can only send them in the UK, for refrigeration reasons. And UK Dwellars know what kinda pies we eat here anyway. What a shame. I'd love to send & receive region-specific pies. Region, not country of course, because we're smaller than many States...
Steak & Kidney, Scotch Pies, Cornish Pasties etc. You get a lot of pie in a small place if you're cut off by water.
I don't know how to make a pie that would survive shipping... although I'm open to suggestions... and trading food in general.
I'm in for a food exchange, too. I missed teh cookie one.
We could do non-cookie things like lemon bars and scones and stuff. Anybody up for a random shipping-friendly baked goods exchange?
Another good option would be cured meats.
Hmm.... I've got corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot if anyone wants to swing by...
Melton Mowbray pork pies would survive shipping lol.
Pork pie? You have to be high to eat that right?
High...or at any picnic or party with buffet food.
I had one this evenin, as it happens...'twas rather nice.
Yeah, yeah... pictures or it never happened.
Bah! my camera has gone on strike.
Hmm.... I've got corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot if anyone wants to swing by...
good....
I'm HONGRY
Savory pies are delicious. It's gotta be the massive amounts of fat.
Just getting an edible batch of cookies out the door was a herculean task for the likes of me.
Pies? [COLOR=gray][[/COLOR][COLOR=gray]\[/COLOR][COLOR=gray]head explodes[/COLOR][COLOR=gray]][/COLOR]
Yes, but to be fair, you did go above and beyond... dipping in chocolate and everything.
I think the assorted/mystery baked good is a great idea, Perry.
What about, like, not-baked things? I'm kinda not so good with the baking of things. At all. I'm trying to think of what food I would be able to send instead--is it cheating if it's regional, but I don't prepare it myself? Like if I sent my favorite brand of local salsa?
What about, like, not-baked things? I'm kinda not so good with the baking of things. At all. I'm trying to think of what food I would be able to send instead--is it cheating if it's regional, but I don't prepare it myself? Like if I sent my favorite brand of local salsa?
Why not? Might even end up spurring a bit of demand for a regional product...
Melton Mowbray pork pies would survive shipping lol.
They will survive the coming apocalypse.
Hmmm....wonder if cockroaches eat pastry?
What else would they eat at the end of the world?
What else would they eat at the end of the world?
not our rotting corpses because we would all be charred into the ether....maybe twinkies and hot pockets.
I saw Hot Pockets in the HUGE Asda supermarket in Milton Keynes.
It amused me no end,
My telling of the Jim Gaffigan skit fell flatter than Wile E Coyote being run over by a van though. Shame.
I still grinned all the way home singing, "Hot Pockets! Hot Pockets!" Wish I'da bought me some...
I love Jim Gaffigan.....he never feels good about eating those Hot Pockets, does he?
He likes them lava hot on the ends and frozen in the middle...ahhhhh....
There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t eat meat but still would like to get diarrhea.
Directions: Remove Hot Pocket from box and place directly in toilet.