"cookie" news and stories

Are you an Oreo person or a Hydrox person? I guess I should change that to "were" because the Hydrox cookie is no more.

Now, this might not be news to everyone, since it happened in 2003! But Kellogg's was so low-key about it that a lot of people simply didn't realize it (besides hardcore Hydrox fans, of course). The Wall Street Journal investigated and found out that it was discontinued five years ago after the company realized they couldn't compete with Oreos. The interesting thing is that several people still say they see them once in a while, in stores and on airplanes.

I have to admit that I'm an Oreo person, and I think the reason why I never bought Hydrox was because I just thought they were a knockoff and tasted like Oreos. Now I wish they'd come back so I can try them again. Supposedly the cream in the middle was less sweet?

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No, this doesn't mean you drop your microwave and delicious cookies suddenly appear.

Mom's Best Recipes, one of my favorite food blogs, has this recipe for Microwave Drop Cookies, which sound great and are super-easy to make, taking only a couple of minutes to make. Seriously, you cook them for two minutes! these might be good if you're looking for a snack at night while you're watching TV or reading and don't want to make them in a regular oven. Full recipe after the jump.

Let's not get all crazy technical here by telling us that a brownie isn't a cookie. We already got all kinds of heat about dictionary definitions, etc when we told the lucky recipients that they were receiving the results of our cookie-baking chaos. "Cookie baking?" they asked? "Cookie?" These are brownies!

Ungrateful little *censored*. We had it in our minds to snatch the batch back and run off with our "brownies."

If we have to get technical about it, let's just say that these Peanut Butter Cream Brownies are peanut butter cream and chocolate fudge "bar cookies" and be done with it. The bottom layer is a standard fudge brownie recipe that uses cocoa powder, but if you have your own favorite recipe, use it, keeping in mind that the brownies bake in a smaller pan. In other words, if your recipe goes into a 9x13 pan, make half of it.

The top layer is a peanut butter and cream cheese mixture, hence the name Peanut Butter Cream. We used crunchy peanut butter, not because we think tiny chopped hard things tainting peanut butter is okay, but because we used all the smooth peanut butter making regular peanut butter cookies.

We're back on Target. Or rather, we're back to looking at Target's in-store brand, Archer Farms, and some of the products they offer.

I mentioned the Chocolate Chip Petite Cookies last week, which were fine, but not worth running off to Target, battling the Soccer Moms in SUVs in the parking lot, and waiting in a confusing doubled-up line for 15 minutes. They're chocolate chip cookies, for goodness' sake!

Key Lime White Chocolate Cookies are the next installment of my Archer Farms Target Finds. The cookies are packaged in the same way as the regular chocolate chip, but everything is green -- in case you couldn't figure out that there is lime somewhere in the cookie.

A chocolate chip cookie is a chocolate chip cookie, so it's never really bad. If there's one in front of me, I'm going to eat it. On the other side, very rarely does a chocolate chip cookie ever "wow" me. Sure some of them might be cuter because they're smaller, or impressive because they're the diameter of a dinner plate. At some point,though, they're all pretty much the same.

However, I recently came across a chocolate chip cookie that actually made me take notice. A friend and I were out at "shopping event" where local food vendors were sponsoring refreshments up and down the street. One of the stores was offering Deluscious Cookies.

The cookies are just slightly smaller than a CD, so they already stand out for size. They're fairly flat, and somewhat flimsy, which means a lot of butter. I took a bite, and after that first bite, I think I finished the whole thing in about 45 seconds. The cookies are lightly chewy, a little sticky for all that sugar, and though you can't tell from the surface, it's overflowing with chocolate chips.

While I only got to try the chocolate chip (the second one I had was also chocolate chip), there are 24 different "flavors" of Deluscious Cookies. I haven't seen these cookies in stores or bakeries, but they are available for order.