Late one Tuesday night, around 2.30 am, the apartment buzzer beeped and my brother’s girlfriend, Krista, popped out of their room to open the door. ‘I ordered cookies,’ she said, equally sheepish and excited. A few minutes later, there was a box filled with warm, just-baked cookies sitting on our table, brimming with choc chips, oatmeal and raisins, and something I’d never heard of before: snickerdoodles. I love American dessert names.
The snickerdoodle (a classic, I’ve since learned) and I have been best buds ever since. Its soft, chewy texture, intense buttery flavour and crackly cinnamon-sugar crust is perfect for midnight cookie cravings, or whenever you want something moreish but not too rich. So any time, really.
It’s one of those sweets that tastes so good you think there must be more to it, but it’s easy as. These are inspired by the oversized cookies you find all over New York and, in the city that never sleeps, can even have delivered to your door.