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After reading my “Quest for the best chocolate chip cookie” story from the fall, in which I compared nine chocolate chip cookies from our recipe archives, my mother (a retired caterer) commented that she never knew there was so much to say about chocolate chip cookies. One might think that chocolate chip cookies are not particularly remarkable, but they are America’s favorite cookie, and aficionados have distinct opinions about them. I’m Julie Giuffrida, filling in this week for Ben Mims, and (surprise, Mom!) five months…

Girl Scouts announced the new Raspberry Rally cookie in Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 16, 2022.Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesThis is the way the Girl Scout cookie crumbles.Amid widespread cookie shortages, the Girl Scouts of the USA said they are "keeping all options open" as frustrations mount with one of their baking partners, Little Brownie Bakers, which is owned by Italian confection giant Ferrero.Little Brownie Bakers, or LBB, notified the Girl Scouts on Monday morning that weather-induced power…

Eight-year-old Quinn has been selling Girl Scout cookies in her hometown of Telluride since joining her local troop four years ago. Because the cookie and ski seasons overlap, she and her mom, Cathleen Sowinski, like to set up a table in the plaza at Mountain Village and sell the famous sweets to out-of-town visitors as they come off the slopes. It’s a successful strategy and perhaps a necessary one. Telluride boasts just a few thousand permanent residents to whom local Girl Scouts can sell door-to-door and there aren’t…

Image: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)Google Trend Data has revealed which Christmas cookies are the most popular for 2022, and found that sugar cookies, gingerbread, and peanut butter blossoms win as the overall top picks.The data report revealed which cookies are the most popular by state, using analytics tools to discern the most common cookie searched on Google from December 3 through December 9.Cookies change in popularity from year to year, Jenny Lee, lead Google Trends analyst, told Axios, adding that “Even though…

Disney Dreamlight Valley is packed with Dreamlight Duties to complete, so you'd be forgiven if you accidentally overlooked the few themed quests that get packed into the game during various holidays. Now that the recent Halloween quests have finished their time in the limelight, it's now onward to more jolly offerings with the current festive quests. You can find these in your Village Dreamlight Duties, and we'll tell you how to knock them all out below.How to complete the festive questsThere are five…

Each year as the month transitions from November to December, the thought of holiday-time baking reenergizes me for the rest of the year. Esoteric German cakes and breads that take an inordinate amount of time to make? Love ’em. Intricately layered pastries or stretched-and-rolled strudels? Sign me up. I love a challenging baking project, and the holidays are the perfect time for them. But, I know most people aren’t like that. The thought of rolling out dough on your counter and fighting with the cutter to let go of the…

A beloved Texas cookie company is now delivering warm confections directly to Denver doorsteps. Tiff’s Treats, which originated in Austin in 1999, opened a new location at 1147 N. Broadway, on Oct. 8. The store marks Tiff’s first in Colorado, as well as its first west of Texas. In its home state, Tiff’s Treats is something of a household name for serving up baked-to-order cookies that arrive warm and gooey with an optional side of milk. Founders Tiffany and Leon Chen decided to bring that luxury to Colorado as they…

There's a war going on in Utah – not over politics or drugs – but cookies.Crumbl Cookies, which has more than 300 stores in 36 states, has declared war on smaller competitors Dirty Dough (six stores in Utah and Florida) and Crave (nine stores in Utah and Florida.) And it's setting social media ablaze."Are cookies really worth suing over?" asked a TikTok user. For the founders of Crumbl, the answer is yes.A Crumbl Rocky Road cookie.Crumbl CookiesThe lawsuits started flying in May, when Crumbl separately sued Dirty Dough…

Google has just announced its plans to launch a number of features aimed at helping publishers monetize their websites and increase their emphasis on first-party data relationships. The features include support for ads personalization with publisher first-party cookies in Google Ad Manager and AdSense. Expanding publisher first-party cookies. Publisher first-party cookies can help publishers deliver relevant ads without tracking users across third-party websites. Publisher…

BTS will soon show up in Cookie Run: Kingdom as cookies in a crossover collaboration called Braver Together. Each BTS member will get their own unique in-game cookie character, and the collab will include BTS-themed maps as well as an in-game performance by the BTS cookies.The BTS collab goes live on October 13, and from September 24 to September 30, developer Devsisters will post photocards and teaser videos. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos.Size:640 ×…