“I hope Alison Roman’s cookies can right my past wrongs, but things start to veer off the rails almost immediately”
The Cookies. Photo: Courtesy of Instagram/alisoneroman Over Easy is a weekly food column by a 20-something woman who can barely cook an egg and just wants to learn how to throw together an elegant three-course meal for her friends.
As I scrolled through picture after picture of these fancy cookies, I became overwhelmed with envy. I too wanted to post a picture of my beautiful, salt-flaked creations with some self-effacing caption like “All aboard the shortbread cookie bandwagon!” or whatever. But the thing is, I dread baking: It requires a degree of patience and precision I simply don’t seem to have. The last time I baked, I was 12 years old and set out to make meringues for my mom’s birthday.
Upon first skimming the recipe, I am mortified. Roman says she’s always found chocolate-chip cookies to be “deeply flawed”: “Too sweet, or too soft, or with too much chocolate, there’s a lot of room for improvement, if you ask me.” She says that cutting chocolate into chunks prevents “chip congregation,” and that rolling dough into cylinders that then get rolled in Demerara sugar gives the cookies “the crispiest-ever edges.
Roman says the butter, sugar, and vanilla should be beaten together until “super light and fluffy,” but when my hand starts to cramp after 15 excruciating minutes of wrestling the mixture around with a wooden spoon, I decide that “dense and sludge-like” will have to do. I mix in the flour and chunks of dark chocolate, roll it into logs, and then I see a very annoying sentence that is buried at the bottom of step 3. It says, “Chill until totally firm, about 2 hours.
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