Multinational Cookies

Ahh...these cookies sound like me. They've got two different citizenships. ;D

"American" Style choc chip cookies. AB's thin chip recipe, but with a touch of Brit but according to Brits, a touch of USA. =P If you've never been to UK, their version of milk chocolate is different from ours. Just eat a Hershey's milk choc, then a Cadbury's milk choc. Their's taste milky. I guess there's a reason Cadbury label's it as dairy milk with a pitcher of milk flowing in. ;) While at the Morrison's supermarket chain in London, I came across baggies of cookies. Never shop when you're hungry. Well, I was hungry. I checked out what sweet delights I could nosh on and I spied a bag labelled American Style Chocolate Chip Cookies. Well, I gotta see what that's considered! In the end, I'm not too sure what they meant because I never got around to getting the "normal" chocolate chip cookies to compare. But the immediate impression I got when I ate them was that it doesn't taste like cookies from home at all! Rather, Britified with the use of their version of milky chocolate chips. Hahaha!!! It's like...Americanized Chinese food or Britified Indian food. So I had Britified American cookies. They were enjoyable regardless. Something different.

Anyhow, I've been wanting to recreate these funny cookies (well, I did get a laugh from it) upon returning to the states but never got around to it. Also, not having Brit version of choc chips sorta makes it harder to do. ;P So I came up with the bright idea of using Cadbury bars in place of the chips. At least one year passed after I had that eureka moment. Finally one day, I wanted to make a dessert for my friend's birthday. She too stayed in London for an extended period of time so I decided to try these out on her!! Besides, I couldn't think of a good birthday cake to whip up for her. And so 2 bars of Cadbury went into AB's thin chips. The verdict? Not quite what I had. The milkyness gets lost either in the cookie dough or from the oven heat. It's there, but really subtle whereas the Morrison's cookies really whacked my tongue with dairy. She enjoyed the cookies though for their rich flavor (all the butter that got crammed in). Hooray! Plus, it brought back childhood memories of the type of cookies she used to love, but only had on special occassions. I understood where she was coming from. I always thought of these types of cookies as the ones you must wash your hands after consuming. She understood where I was coming from. Hahaha!! Thus, she has chosen to restrict her intake of these cookies as it seems this concoction is out to give her a coronary in celebration of her life. Go figure. =P