#56 | the cookies with the pink frosting
These feel like a universal nostalgic childhood memory
I know lots of us struggle to find a birthday / holiday / Father’s Day gift for our dads — maybe they never want anything, maybe they don’t have the cliche dad hobbies of golf, whiskey, fishing, & cigars, maybe they just buy what they want when they want it & don’t want us to spend our money on them.
My dad fits most of these!
In the past, I’ve donated money to a cause he cares about & I’ve managed to find a narrow category of kitchen things he didn’t know existed (an immersion circulator & a Ninja Cream-i). Last year, however, I baked him a homemade version of one of his favorite treats from when I was a kid — the oatmeal cream pie.
It was a hit — he got something he liked, & I got to gift something consumable that I knew wouldn’t collect dust in a cabinet. (Looking at you, AppleTV that my sister & I gifted our parents at least 15 years ago that they never plugged in.)
This year I offered to do it again, & turned to a new cookbook: Sweet Tooth by Broma Bakery. I hadn’t made any of her recipes before but everything I’ve tried from this cookbook has been a hit.
Once again, I leaned on my own childhood nostalgia for this year’s recipe: those soft cookies with the pink frosting you would get at the grocery store and were a constant fixture of classroom birthday parties.
Mine didn’t turn out quite as fluffy as the original, but they definitely had enough sugar to make you remember that time you tried to eat more than one & made yourself sick!
Most importantly, my dad loved them. And in a funny twist, so did my mom — I’m pretty sure she ate most of them (& now I know what to get her for her birthday in a few weeks!)
I highly recommend the cookbook to get all sorts of delicious recipes, but you can also find this recipe on the Broma Bakery website.
Sweet Tooth is a great cookbook, I’ve followed her on Instagram for several years