From Carol Coppins
I’ve been accused of ’selling my soul to the devil’ for my cookie recipes. I can assure you, that were this the case, I’d have a bigger bank balance and a smaller dress size. In reality, ’selling my waistline to research’ would be a more accurate description. I love cookies! There are dog people and cat people; cruise people and museum people. I am a cookie person. When people start talking cake decorating I have to admit I am completely clueless. If it weren’t for Jessie (our amazing cake designer), we would have no fancy cakes at all. I never realized cake was worth eating until Jessie came along and won me over with her delicious scratch recipes.
In particular, I love chocolate chip shortbread cookies. I find it very gratifying that it is one of our best sellers. I vigorously agree with the contingency of customers who claim it as their favorite, its my favorite too! And a favorite of my family as well. My daughter makes it often with and for friends, my son would take it as one of three items allowed on a desert island (watch for getting to know the staff in the future) and my husband might claim that it’s the reason he married me.
I actually started making the shortbread cookie in high school, which is quite a bit further in the past than I would like to admit. Like many of you, I read recipe books, and any magazine with a cookie on the cover, will undoubtedly end up in my kitchen. I usually end up adapting these recipes, either to suit my fancy, or the state of my pantry. This is a recipe I found in one of my Mom’s women’s magazines in the early eighties. I have no idea which one, and have changed the recipe enough that it probably wouldn’t match anymore anyway. But from the first batch, I was hooked. It’s survived 25 plus years, and is still ‘to die for’.
Fun Fact: I actually served this cookie, along with a variety of others at my wedding reception. Feel free to do the same. You can even get a cake to match.