This is the second week of the Cookie Thursday is a Thing 10th-anniversary baking frenzy. Not really, it is just a highlight reel of the department favorite cookies from the past 10 years. It is a good thing that this month has 5 Thursdays.
The cookie that I made today was a perennial favorite and is always at the top of the cookie wishlists.
I, of course, am making the jalapeño chocolate chip cookies.
As always, I am shocked and tickled pink by the enduring love for this cookie from my department. Many people put it at the top of their list. Of course, there are always the naysayers who say vegetables don’t belong in cookies.
Nay, I say. Cookies are only bound by your imagination.
The jalapeño chocolate chip cookies were begun after my dad planted my garden for me. And included three jalapeño plants.
No one in the house would eat them and I needed to dispose of them somehow.
Looking at the pile of peppers on my countertop and the supplies of Cookie Thursday is a Thing started me wondering what if.
What if I put the jalapeños in the cookies?
This started the experimental phase of CTIAT. A phase I am proud to continue as I am always down to experiment on willing participants.
Since it is January and peppers are getting weaker and weaker I use dried jalapeños. I reconstitute them in water for several hours and use the entire ramekin of peppers and water in the batch. I do increase the amount of flour to compensate for the increased fluid.
So really the jalapeño chocolate chip cookies were an accident. A happy accident but an accident nonetheless.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 