“Is it even legal,” I asked my sister, a lawyer, “for any cookie to be better than a chocolate chip cookie?”
“LOL. No. It is the perfect cookie,” she replied in a 17-page brief that points to several cases of “cookie precedence.”
Okay. But if you could wrap your head around the POSSIBILITY that there is a better cookie out there, I’d point to the Oat and Pecan Brittle Cookies in Claire Saffitz’s cookbook, Dessert Person. (Full disclosure: I am Claire’s former coworker and I adore her. But I’ve made a lot of cookies in my day—including three others from her book—but none that blew my boots off quite like these.)
The name doesn’t quite do it justice. You have a cookie the size of a toddler’s face. It’s gorgeously textured from undulating waves of butter that spread in the heat of the oven. That would be brown butter, by the way, which makes it taste caramelized and fancy bakery expensive. But what brought me to my knees is the fact that you make pecan brittle, then blitz up SOME of it with the cookie dough’s dry ingredients while leaving SOME in small broken chunks for the final dough mixture. The final cookie is crispy-edged, thin, and chewy-centered from the oatmeal, with tiny crispy pecan brittle bits throughout.
I prefer it to all other cookies. It’s the best cookie I’ve ever made. I feel as confident with this hyperbolic declaration as any I’ve ever made. I feel it strongly! And urgently! You need to make this cookie!
To confirm that it’s the best cookie, I shared my cookies, which wasn’t easy, with family and neighbors. “This is an amazing cookie,” they all (basically) said. I’m rounding that up to “best.”
I even asked the creator herself. “It’s not just you!” said Claire, who has some of the cookie dough in her freezer right now. “When I was developing this cookie, I wondered exactly the same thing myself, It really IS the best, right?” Her theory: “I think it’s that combination of a chewy center and lacy edge, plus the mix of butterscotchy-ness plus oaty-ness plus toasty pecans. Plus, it’s SALTY. It’s just the total cookie package.” I love Claire’s confidence in her own cookies.
Why are the cookies so HUGE? I asked. “I tend to make scooped cookies like this large because it affords the cookies the ability to achieve every texture possible, from a crisp, deeply caramelized edge to a soft, barely set center and everything in between. The larger the cookie, the more variation between the edge and the center and the more delicious it is to eat.”
Don’t sleep on this one…
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