Cookie Taster of the Week: my Dad!

actually several weeks ago my dad was cookie taster of the week....and rightly so. my mom has given up sweets for lent and the poor guy needed come sweets! andi and ez to the rescue!

(my dad on the right, playing happy hands club with us)

Milk Chocolate cookies---4.4

These cookies were delicious and also chocolate--2 great features. However , even though they had great flavor, they lacked the gooey goodness of a true quad choc cookie. They were moist enough to not need to wash them down, a definite plus.

Sweet cardamon crackers---4.2

For a non chocolate cookie (cracker) these were great. The pronunciation is tough but eating them is a breeze. They have a distinct flavor that I was not familiar with, but I could sit around and eat them all day. Good cookie.

Milk Chocolate Cookies

chocolate
inside of chocolate
inside of chocolate
need i say more?

overall rating: 3.92

ease to make: 3.5
clean up: 4

so there is cocoa, and melted milk chocolate, and milk chocolate chips. the only downfall is a bunch of dishes that no one likes doing. but then again, what's new with that?

for some reason these wern't as chewy as i might have liked them to be but they still had an addictive property for people that caused them to quickly disappear.

from the cookie testers.....

The chocolate cookie was my favorite of the two. The body of the cookie was an awesome chewy brownie like texture though noticeably less sweet with sweet chocolate chunks for contrast and good overall balance 4.5/5.

the cholcolate i am dubbing "Pyroclastic obsidian chocolatelove dream" Super nice chocolate quality. Pyroclastic because there is an airiness in it, obsidian because the bottom is smooth and harder.. the rest of the description is obvious. I'd bake 2 minutes less and remove immediately from pan if going for a more overall chewy sensation..... but what do i know? i'm only a taster. 4.5

Sweet Cardamom Crackers

not called a "cookie"
but crackers are considered healthier.
eat as many as you like
and be happy!

overall rating: 4.43ease to make: 3.7
clean up: 5

so i hav'nt blogged for a long time and i'm real sorry. sometimes life gets in the way of the more important things, like making cookies. anyway, these little crackers are the most interesting blend of ingredients and are a real crowd pleaser.

i have 2 new cookie tasters who write rave reviews:

perfectly balanced in the sugar/sweetness, chewiness, flavor/theme categories. I have a personal affinity towards cardamom, coconut and pistasch.... so i'll give this a 4.76 because i could eat a dumptruck load of them and not feel ill. In fact these may be a welcome alternative to nasty pretend heathly energy bars.

The white cookie was really tasty. Zingy but not as bold as the lemon poppy and not too sweet. 4/5 is my rating.