I was shopping for eatables in BJ's Wholesale Gigantatorium a few weeks ago, and I came across a product called the Smart Cookie. It came in two flavors: Choco Loco and Yellow Mellow.
Choco Loco cookies, in addition to the usual ingredients like flour and eggs and sodium hypochlorite and yaks' horns, contain apricots, apples, zucchini, spinach, peas, and broccoli.
Yellow Mellow cookies (that's a terrible name, Smart Cookie Company!) contain corn, yellow squash, cauliflower, and apples.
Sneaky, eh? But don't be deceived. Only ten percent of each cookie is made of this stuff. Still, that's pretty impressive.
I bought them and served them at an office meeting, and everyone was very impressed. (No transfats, by the way, and only about thirty calories per (small) cookie, so they're almost completely guilt-free. They have only a gram of fiber per cookie; I would have thought more, considering that they have so much produce in them, but you cawn't have everything.)
This is the whole hidden-vegetable thing that Jerry Seinfeld's wife Jessica got into trouble with a while back, remember? She came out with a cookbook of recipes like this, with things like pureed cauliflower in the macaroni and cheese; then it turned out she'd ripped off most of the recipes from another cookbook, written by someone who wasn't lucky enough to marry Jerry Seinfeld.
Betty MacDonald, in “The Egg and I,” remembered that her grandmother would save everything – one green bean, a potato, two spoonfuls of corn – on little saucers in the icebox. Then, once a week, she'd bake horrible shapeless pale cookies into which she'd throw these bits and pieces of vegetables. Betty and her siblings refused to eat these horror-movie cookies. Then some people moved in next door, a couple with a bunch of children. Betty and her family noted that the neighbor kids, while playing, were snacking on a big bag of something on their front porch. They investigated, and found that the kids were eating dog biscuits.
Well, if they liked dog biscuits -
And Gammy's cookies were presented to the neighbor kids, who thought they were delicious.
Gammy invented the Smart Cookie.
And good for her!
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