3/15 Moment of Zen: Compost Cookies

Compost Cookies?

Would you put potato chips in a cookie? Christina Tosi, the ringleader at Momofuku Milk Bar in New York City, adds potato chips and more to what she calls "Compost Cookies." Tosi recently revealed her recipe and varying food writers have been posting about their attempts and what combinations of crunch and melt they add to the base. Some conservatively keep to known combinations like pretzels and chocolate, while others like David Lebovitz, who calls his "Amnesty Cookies," see it as an opportunity to rifle through the cabinets and get rid of leftovers (Lebovitz's cookies included everything from chocolate-covered marshmallow bears to corn chips). Other ingredients have ranged from bacon to Goldfish to coffee grounds. Continually, people have been surprised with the alchemy that takes place in the cookie and turns it into whatever the baking equivalent of gold is.

Click the photos above to visit the recipe if you want to try it yourself. I also have it on high authority that different versions of these have been turning up for sale at Outlook Farm pretty regularly (this would be the same authority that shared the recipe with me and makes all the cookies at Outlook).

Speaking of round baked goods, if you missed out on π day yesterday, since we weren't in school to do anything, you have another chance to celebrate π this summer on European π day on July 22nd.