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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 21, 2024 15:13:13 GMT
Oh my - Pinwheels! These are one of my all-time favorite store-bought cookies Night Owl. I quit buying them after the price went past $6 a pkg. And I can imagine the mess that the cookie crumbles made on your pages. She should've at least licked the chocolate off the page protector.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 21, 2024 15:17:19 GMT
Great discipline PaperAngel. What about when (if) you go to crops? We don't have crops around here any more but when I used to go, most of us brought snacks to share (to be eaten away from the crop tables) or table snacks like bite-size candies.
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Post by joblackford on Aug 21, 2024 15:34:31 GMT
Oh, barbarac and AussieMeg , I've never heard of Biscoff cookies. I'll have to look for them next time I go to a larger grocery than my small Kroger. My local Kroger has a Biscoff display in the weirdest spot, in a gap between the meat, fish and bakery sections. It’s a low display with the cookies and the cookie butter, maybe a couple of other products. I don’t think they have them in the cookie aisle at all. We had Biscoff for the first time on a flight like mikklynn mentioned, and there was a little boy who was obsessed with them sitting behind us. I think we got stuck on the runway for a while and listened to him talking about Biscoff for a loooong time. They were tasty
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 21, 2024 18:16:56 GMT
I see you have a chocolate theme going 950nancy . Mmmmmm.
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Post by tampascrapper on Aug 22, 2024 2:44:28 GMT
I’m not sure i would eat cookies while i was scrapping but white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are my favorite. Peanut butter cookies are a close second.
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Post by lg on Aug 22, 2024 3:41:06 GMT
Definitely NOT Tim Tams 😅
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 22, 2024 13:42:55 GMT
tampascrapper, peanut butter cookies would be less messy. Of course, maybe not so much if they're the ones with the Hershey Kiss on top.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 22, 2024 13:45:08 GMT
Tim-Tams; lg I haven't seen those in a long time. Aren't they sort of like the Girl Scout Samoas? Those would be dangerous around paper!
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 22, 2024 13:47:18 GMT
Thanks joblackford. I'll look for the Biscoff on my next trip to Kroger. What an odd place to display them!
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anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Aug 22, 2024 17:48:19 GMT
I am another who doesnt really snack on cookies in my craft area... I do embroider on my couch... even then I dont really do cookies...
I do have a stash of skittles, mini starbust, gummy bears and twizzlers in a drawer in my desk.... my youngest granddaughter has found it... lol... but I dont think she has told her siblings/cousins... but I do know she goes a gets a sneaky handful...
I am more likely to go for the candy then a cookie.. but a cupcake.. now that I will not turn down!!!
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Post by lg on Aug 22, 2024 22:38:19 GMT
Tim-Tams; lg I haven't seen those in a long time. Aren't they sort of like the Girl Scout Samoas? Those would be dangerous around paper! They are choc coated deliciousness with all sorts of special filings www.arnotts.com/brands/tim-tam-deluxe
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Post by caspad on Aug 23, 2024 16:04:54 GMT
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scrapnnana
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Post by scrapnnana on Aug 24, 2024 16:35:46 GMT
I don’t snack when I craft, but I love homemade shortbread cookies. They would be too crumbly to get near my craft room, though.
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Shakti
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Post by Shakti on Aug 24, 2024 22:28:08 GMT
I agree that Biscoff are a nice low-mess crafting-compatible cookie. TJ's has a knock-off called Speculoos. Don't know how they came up with that.
Also agree that TimTams are a very messy, not at all crafting-compatible cookie. TJ's knock-off of those are called Aussie-Style Chocolate Creme Sandwich Cookies. Much easier to see how they derived that.
I usually only snack while crafting at multi-hour retreat/crop sorts of events, IRL or virtual. I tend to go with dark chocolate peanut or almond M&Ms -- little bit of protein, good hit of theobromine, little sugar, candy shell so they melt in your mouth not in your hand -- what else do you need?
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Post by waffles on Aug 26, 2024 0:20:22 GMT
Candy is a better choice of snacks for me. I constantly drop crumbs when eating. Love me some peanut butter m and ms!
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Post by mrssch on Aug 27, 2024 14:57:22 GMT
OREOS are never a bad idea! Thick chunky chocolate chip cookies, a glass of cold chocolate milk and a pile of napkins work in my craft room.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 12:52:17 GMT
You can't hide the good stuff from the little ones for very long anaterra. And since you've brought candy into the snack game, I love 5th Avenue but they're definitely not craft friendly. But I would take fun-size Milky Ways. (None of which I should be eating. )
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 12:54:54 GMT
Oh Wow, look at those TimTams! They look delicious! Thanks for the link lg.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 12:57:34 GMT
I agree caspad - homemade cookies are best. But there sure are a lot of store bought cookies out there to tempt us. I'll bet I've gained 5 lbs just reading these texts.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 13:02:27 GMT
Now I want homemade shortbread cookies scrapnnana. I once made a recipe I saw on America's Test Kitchen for Millionaire Shortbread. It took a little longer to make than your standard cookie bars but they looked so good. They tasted awful! I must've missed a step or something but talk about disappointed.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 13:04:44 GMT
Well Shakti & waffles, looks like maybe M&Ms are the winner in the candy department.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 28, 2024 13:06:34 GMT
OREOS are never a bad idea! Thick chunky chocolate chip cookies, a glass of cold chocolate milk and a pile of napkins work in my craft room. You may have just identified the secret ingredient in successful snacking mrssch: "a pile of napkins".
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Post by caspad on Aug 30, 2024 12:32:07 GMT
Now I want homemade shortbread cookies scrapnnana . I once made a recipe I saw on America's Test Kitchen for Millionaire Shortbread. It took a little longer to make than your standard cookie bars but they looked so good. They tasted awful! I must've missed a step or something but talk about disappointed. :D My husband made that ATK Millionaire's Shortbread a few times and whoa was it good! Definitely a recipe to make for a party or to share because it makes a lot.
Give it another try - or convince someone else to make it for you.
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Post by hoopsfn on Aug 30, 2024 13:33:12 GMT
:)I'm glad your husband had success with the ATK Millionaire Shortbread. He must've done all the right steps. Mine was such a failure that it was a "one & done" deal for me.
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ComplicatedLady
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 1, 2024 1:53:23 GMT
I don’t like baking so I’m more of a chocolate chip cookie dough kinda gal. Luckily, they even have plant based pre made cookie dough at a couple of our local grocery stores!
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Post by hoopsfn on Sept 1, 2024 15:23:28 GMT
I'm glad there's an option out there for you ComplicatedLady. I didn't realize that there was a plant-based cookie dough.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 5, 2024 16:30:26 GMT
I agree that Biscoff are a nice low-mess crafting-compatible cookie. TJ's has a knock-off called Speculoos. Don't know how they came up with that.Biscoff is just manufacturer Lotus' international brand name of a type of biscuit called speculoos which is a Belgian take on the Dutch speculaas. Speculoos has less spices and leans into the caramelised sugar aspect more than speculaas. Belgians didn't have access to spices like their Dutch neighbours through colonisation and spice trade so they made an ersatz version of it. You can read about speculoos here. Speculoos and speculaas are particularly popular for Saint Nicholas (December 6-7) in Belgium and the Netherlands. They sell Saint Nicholas-shaped speculoos and speculaas at that time of the year:
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Shakti
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Post by Shakti on Sept 5, 2024 20:07:18 GMT
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Post by hoopsfn on Sept 6, 2024 13:29:20 GMT
Thanks sleepingbooty. I love a good cookie "backstory". Of course, now I want a cookie with my coffee.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 6, 2024 15:34:32 GMT
If you ever visit the Netherlands, look out for the carved wood speculaas moulds. They're beautiful. You can even buy antique ones at flea markets. Even if you don't bake speculaas (or speculoos) yourself, they make for very special décor. Roosters, people and windmills are classics. (I put a few images in the spoiler below.) Also tagging blemon who loves the Netherlands and is renovating an old home. Thanks sleepingbooty. I love a good cookie "backstory". Of course, now I want a cookie with my coffee. The backstory is but the gateway to the cravings!
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