Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
I've been around for a while and I've eaten a lot of cookies over the years.
I can still remember the chocolate chip cookies my mom baked fresh out of the oven all soft and gooey with melted chocolate chips that got all over your fingers as you ate them. The cookies were so soft they deformed as you gobbled them up.
They were only soft for a while. As they cooled they firmed up and became crispy. The rest of the batch was eaten crispy with a cold glass of whole milk. The only other way these same cookies were ever soft again was if there was a really humid day. Now, you can bake or buy soft cookies that stay soft throughout their time on this earth (I know this is not a recent development).
One of the things that makes my SO so special is that she always surprises me with little things she knows I like. Today it was a package of Pepperidge Farms Soft Baked Nantucket Dark Chocolate Cookies. Pepperidge Farms makes good stuff. Their Raspberry Milanos are among the best things ever baked commercially. I also really like their Chesapeake cookies - crispy chocolate chip cookies with pecans. (Love the Chesapeakes, not the Nantuckets).
So I sat down with a cold glass of milk to enjoy these Nantucket Soft Baked Cookies I had never had before. There are only eight cookies in the bag so as long as you don't run out of milk, the bag has a short life, except...
...these cookies are gross! I don't know who thought eternally/unnaturally soft cookies were a good idea but they are not. You cannot prolong the sensuous impact of a freshly baked cookie right out of the oven. It's meant to be a fleeting pleasure. These forever-soft cookies give me the impression of being old and damp.
Am I alone in my dislike for soft cookies? Is there anyone else out there who feels as I do?
I can still remember the chocolate chip cookies my mom baked fresh out of the oven all soft and gooey with melted chocolate chips that got all over your fingers as you ate them. The cookies were so soft they deformed as you gobbled them up.
They were only soft for a while. As they cooled they firmed up and became crispy. The rest of the batch was eaten crispy with a cold glass of whole milk. The only other way these same cookies were ever soft again was if there was a really humid day. Now, you can bake or buy soft cookies that stay soft throughout their time on this earth (I know this is not a recent development).
One of the things that makes my SO so special is that she always surprises me with little things she knows I like. Today it was a package of Pepperidge Farms Soft Baked Nantucket Dark Chocolate Cookies. Pepperidge Farms makes good stuff. Their Raspberry Milanos are among the best things ever baked commercially. I also really like their Chesapeake cookies - crispy chocolate chip cookies with pecans. (Love the Chesapeakes, not the Nantuckets).
So I sat down with a cold glass of milk to enjoy these Nantucket Soft Baked Cookies I had never had before. There are only eight cookies in the bag so as long as you don't run out of milk, the bag has a short life, except...
...these cookies are gross! I don't know who thought eternally/unnaturally soft cookies were a good idea but they are not. You cannot prolong the sensuous impact of a freshly baked cookie right out of the oven. It's meant to be a fleeting pleasure. These forever-soft cookies give me the impression of being old and damp.
Am I alone in my dislike for soft cookies? Is there anyone else out there who feels as I do?