Chocolate & Sea Salt Cookies...Sorta

Alicia, longtime reader and fellow blogger (over at The Slacker Kitchen), emailed me this morning to say that she had become a real-life recipe user. (Yay!) Alicia wanted to try out my Chocolate & Sea Salt Cookies, but she didn’t have the sea salt. So what did she do? She put her own twist on my chocolate cookie recipe, using what she had on hand:

“Well, last night I decided to make cookies, your [Chocolate & Sea Salt] cookies. Unfortunately, I didn't have any sea salt. So, I improvised and used your basic chocolate cookie recipe. What I had on hand was some espresso powder, cinnamon and turbinado sugar. I subbed espresso powder for a portion of the cocoa and added cinnamon. I rolled the balls in the turbinado (next time I'll just sprinkle it on). The cookies are amazing. What should I call them, though? I was thinking Viennese Coffee Cookies after the General Mills Int'l coffee. They are bring-in-able, as my co-workers didn't speak while eating them. I got thumbs up from a diehard chocolate chip fan. And the smell is absolutely intoxicating. Thank you for being an inspiration to us all and helping us to think outside the oatmeal box.”

Good job, Alicia! I’ve done espresso cookies, chocolate cookies, and cinnamon cookies, but it never dawned on me to combine all three. You have inspired me, my friend! And Viennese Coffee Cookies is a great name.

Thanks for reading and for emailing! Maybe we really can start a “bring-in-able” movement.

Comments

[Alicia]

We're an awesome team! I was thinking that your golden girls cookie would taste could as a dark chocolate cookie w/an orange cream cheese filling or a mint filling. Going to see what I can do with that. I'll let you know. Thank you so much for the love, Greg! You Rock!

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Thanks, Alicia! Those variations on my Golden Girls sound good. Once you've got the stuffing technique down, you'll be coming up with all sorts of flavor combinations. :-)

[Alicia]

I've got the flavor combinations. Just need to work on putting it into reality.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

I hear you! :-)

[Alicia]

Have you thought about filling the Golden Girls with Caramel?

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Caramel's a difficult ingredient to use for stuffing. If the caramel is too liquid (for example, jarred caramel sauce), it will get absorbed into the cookie. If the caramel is too hard (for example, Sugar Daddies candy), it will get really, really crunchy in the cookie. But I think I have a trick. I'll do a "query" post on this...I promise!

[Alicia]

I was thinking along the lines of the Rolos you used. Or refrigerating Kraft caramels.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

:-) You took the words right out of my mouth! I was going to suggest trying Rolos...or any other caramel candy that stays smoothly semisolid at room temp.