Momofuku Cornflake-Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
8:46 AM
We love our local library. It has become our home away from
home for the boys and me. We have our routine when we arrive in the Children’s
Department: commandeer a table, scurry off to find books, pile any finds on the
table, then read some and reserve others to be read at home. As the boys get
lost in the books, I’ll browse for food-themed children books like this one
(and the impossible-to-find The Magic Tree House Book #15).
I recently came across this gem. Check out this trailer for
this adorable picture book:
Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly by Carolyn Parkhurst is a sweet story of big brother Henry and
little sister Elliebelly pretending to have their own cooking show. My boys
love the fun dialogue and I adore the illustrations by Dan Yaccarino. The
featured recipe in their make-believe cooking show is a raspberry-marshmallow-peanut butter waffles with barbecued banana bacon. Sounds crazy, imaginative but strangely delicious, right? And something that
could truly come out of the kitchens of Christina Tosi’s Momofuku Milk Bar.
Christina Tosi is the winner 2012 James Beard Rising Star
Chef and pastry chef at David Chang’s Momofuku Milk Bar in New York. She is
also the mastermind behind one of my new favorite cookbooks, Momofuku Milk Bar.
The thing is INSANE. Cereal Milk Ice Cream (made from the milk at the bottom of
sugar cereal), Compost Cookies (chocolate cookies with salty pretzels and
coffee grounds), and Liquid Cheesecake (barely set cheesecake layered on top of
carrot cake). Holy sugar. Henry and Elliebelly would be all over these recipes!
So in the spirit of Henry and Elliebelly, the boys and I
made a batch of Tosi’s Cornflake-Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies. These bad
boys require a 10-minute creaming process to infuse the cookies with extra
butter and sugar. And it includes a cornflake crunch that is so addictive, you
will be snacking on it and not even realize you’re doing it. These cookies are
as sweet and buttery as it gets. And quite possibly the most complex and fun
cookie you will make and/or eat.
Check out the video and recipe here on Martha Stewart. And
if you’re not up for baking from scratch, Williams-Sonoma now carries Momofuku cookie mixes. I think Henry and Elliebelly would approve, wearing pirate hats of course.
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