Slap some frosting on a cookie and some people get all crazy and start talking about imaginary horses and yee-haws. So let’s set the record straight: the Penne Lane sweet treat that deserves the real praise and Food Find honor is the Coconut Macaroon.
Maybe this is because I’m hip and know that cupcakes are out and macaroons are in for the latest dessert fad. All the cool people are eating macaroons these days, except for Jed, who is drooling over black and white cookies.
While macaroons are often the meringue-flavored variety in Easter pastel shades, I’m a fan of the classic coconut delivery. At their best, coconut macaroons are little haystacks of buttery love – and Penne Lane does them perfectly. The outside is gently browned for a crispy exterior, but the inside is gooey magic with a fresh coconut flavor. I bet they will make you have sugar-crazed tiger eyes as well.
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#1 by Jed on April 20th, 2010
Baby, we're not talking about just some old cookie with frosting slapped on it. Cookie chefery is a fine art and this black & white should have a place at the cookie Louvre.
#2 by erin on April 20th, 2010
True, but you started it with your cookie competitiveness.
#3 by Shawn on April 21st, 2010
Jed's cookies put Penne to Shame.
#4 by Judy on April 21st, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style...
Macaroons: what the fashionista is eating this season
McDonald’s is selling them. So is Starbucks.
These are testing times for the macaroon snob. The world’s most exclusive of baked confections has gone horribly mainstream. Naff, even. The French macaroon — ingredients: ground almonds, sugar, egg white, ganache filling — has gone all mass-market ever since top macaroon-maker Pierre Hermé launched in Selfridges earlier this year. Suddenly macaroons are everywhere. Raymond Blanc even has a mini-macaroon range with Waitrose, which has just started to stock frozen mini macaroons too (Symphonie, 12 for £6.49). Could it get any worse?…
#5 by Jed on April 21st, 2010
Shucks. Extra cookie for you next time.
#6 by foodlvr23 on April 22nd, 2010
The Black & White cookie & the Coconut Macaroon Are made 4rom the Freshest Ingredients Better than any JEDS COOKIES Why dont u try them before u open your mouth penne lane has been in business for 15 years in New York As well and was rated Ny's Best cookies 2 years Straight so before you open your mouth and try to slander something be open to trying it 1st or just SHUT UP Penne lane will put alot of places out of business. Being a New Yorker Myself i Use to go 2 penne lane now that i live in C-ville i go their 2 its the only place where u can go and people will greet u with a smile and a GREAT SANDWHICH
#7 by Jed on April 22nd, 2010
Hey now! You have to try Jed's cookies before you open your mouth and try to slander something. Your black & white and macaroon would definitely kick mine's butter, but my chocolate chip cookie would own yours. Whenever you're ready for a Bobby Flay-style cookie smack-down, you just say the word.
#8 by Judy on April 22nd, 2010
Check this out !
http://www.madmacnyc.com/
#9 by Jen A on June 16th, 2010
But..aren't the French cookies macarons? With one 'o'? And macaroons are by definition the coconutty goodness. I think you can't compare them because they've never been the same thing – macaroons are called something completely different in French.
#10 by erin on June 16th, 2010
Good policing, Jen. You're right that they are two different things – the French macaron vs. the coconut macaroon – but both seem to be appearing more and more as a dessert fad. It's fun to do a web search to see the many writings, many of them quite angry, about the macaron/macaroon divide. Here's some fun historical context: http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cookies/c...