Neatorama » cookies http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Stop Motion Wafer Cookie Keyboard http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/stop-motion-wafer-cookie-keyboard/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/stop-motion-wafer-cookie-keyboard/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:15:16 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/stop-motion-wafer-cookie-keyboard/

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This one-minute stop motion video appears to be a Portuguese-language commercial for a fruit juice brand available in Brazil (Google Translator version). It’s a trippy depiction of moving wafer cookies that form a piano.

Via The Presurfer, who celebrated his ninth blogiversary last week.

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Sweet lovers like myself will love this brilliant concept on The Cupcake Project blog. It’s an Oreo cupcake with Oreo frosting, topped with home-made Oreos and served with a glass of milk built inside. This ingenious dessert marvel is made possible with the help of those delightful chocolate liqour cups. I totally want to make these myself, if you do as well, let me know how they turn out.

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Think the Cupcake of Catan is awesome? You ain’t seen nothing yet: Behold the Tower of Oreo!

You know you’ve always wanted to do this…but you never did. One package of Double Stuf Oreos has thirty-six cookies. Each cookie is “double stuffed” which means there is enough of the good stuff in there for seventy-two Oreo cookies. So what would you call it if you stacked all that gooey goodness into ONE MASSIVE COOKIE?

Here’s the Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo: Link – via Al Dente

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Who knew that Gourmet Magazine has been picking cookies of the year for the past 68 years!

You can view pictures and the recipes for each year, from 1941’s Cajun Macaroon to 2008’s Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies.

Skip the Flash intro (link below) and delve to the 1940 cookies list here.

Link – via suburbanfoodforthought

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by stevesteve8383.

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Among the cookie problems bakers face is that the cookies can emerge from the oven soft and intact, but when the cookies travel, they may turn into a box of crumbs.

To beat this problem, Corriher suggests adding a tablespoon of water to a cup of flour that’s going to be used in the cookies. The two proteins in flour — glutenin and gliadin — grip water, Corriher tells NPR’s Melissa Block, and make "springy stretchy, strong elastic sheets of gluten." The gluten will hold the cookies together, she says.

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