Like most kids in the kitchen, I started out a cookie baker- I think it was just in my blood. A true Italian bambino, I teethed on unfrosted anginetti cookies and as I got older, I naturally dunked anise biscotti into coffee for breakfast. But I made my personal foray into baking with chocolate chip cookies. Perfecting my recipe meant altering it constantly, which seemed to happen naturally as I got older and life changed more frequently. The cookies were no longer basic. They contained four types of smashed chocolate, coconut, and occasionally "everything but the kitchen sink."And then one day, I just lost it. My cookies stopped turning out as I wanted, and as it goes, I stopped turning them out.
"The Cookie Crumble" is a vanilla cupcake with a cookie dough center, brown sugar buttercream frosting and chocolate chip cookie star on top. Through all of its grandiose interpretations, its deconstruction, and its rebirth, the noveau chocolate chip cookie is merely a simple one again. Good butter, chocolate, and a little sea salt on top. Because like life itself, no matter how many changes it goes through- the loves, the losses, the successes, and the moves- what is most basic and natural comes out on top in the end.And that's just how the cookie crumbles.
2 comments:
Ooh, I'd like to know how to put cookie dough inside a cupcake :)
It's really quite simple!
Using either store-bought or homemade cookie dough, just create a tiny ball, and place it halfway within the cupcake batter in each cup prior to baking (that way it will be "half-baked" and safe to consume!). Bake cupcakes as usual.
Just a note, it helps to use a sturdier cupcake recipe in this case as anything too light might not hold up the dough.
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