Alice Medrich
Chewy, Gooey, Crispy, Crunchy
What’s your cookie style?

Contrary to popular belief, most significant family arguments are not about money. Nope. They are about cookies. Pure and simple. I like ‘em crunchy. Ebbie likes ‘em chocolaty. Maggie likes ‘em soft and warm. It’s a battle when Marie says “You know, I’m thinking I’ll test those new sheet pans by making a batch of cookies.”

Well, this is it. Your chance to learn and explore ways to make all of the cookie monsters in your house happy. Alice Medrich is one of the best baking writers in the country and she’s out with her new book, Chewy, Gooey, Crispy and Crunchy. It’s a spectacular book on baking cookies and it’s organized around the textures we all love. Every time she visits Cooks she leaves the students asking when she’ll return. We are happy to say that it’s November 15th and it’s a class you won’t want to miss.

Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy – Sign Up
Monday, November 15
6:00 PM-9:00 PM, $80, Edina

Reach beyond that bag of chocolate chips and embrace a world of texture and flavor! Join the Commander of the Cookie, chef and author Alice Medrich, as she takes you inside her sweet and savory cookie revolution, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy. A copy of Alice’s book is included with this class.

Menu: Sesame Sticks; Bittersweet Decadence Cookies; Spicy Carrot Masala Macaroons; Rocky Road Bars

Cookies are easy, enticing, and fun. Yet as the award-winning baker Alice Medrich notes, too often, home cooks cling to the recipe on the bag of chocolate chips, when so much more is possible. “What if cookies reflected our modern culinary sensibility—our spirit of adventure and passion for flavors and even our dietary concerns?” Medrich writes in her introduction to this landmark cookie cookbook, organized by texture, from crunchy to airy to chunky. An inveterate tester and master manipulator of ingredients, she draws on the world’s pantry of ingredients for such delicious riffs on the classics as airy meringues studded with cashews and chocolate chunks, palmiers (elephant’s ears) made with cardamom and caramel, and rugelach with halvah. Butter and sugar content is slashed and the flavor turned up on everything from ginger snaps to chocolate clouds. From new spins on classic recipes including chocolate-chip cookies and brownies, to delectable 2-point treats for Weight Watchers, to cookies to make with kids, this master conjurer of sweets will bring bliss to every dessert table.