Can Cake for Breakfast Help You Lose Weight?

In a recent study from Tel Aviv University, findings show that eating a small dessert with a balanced breakfast can help you shed pounds. Is dessert with breakfast good for you?According to the study conducted...

Have a cookie; make it pumpkin

Out shopping all day, sit down and relax. I did at Le Pain Quotidien in Clarendon today. I had a cappuccino and a pumpkin cookie that tasted as good as it looks.""Le Pain Quotidien (French pronunciation: luh paN...

Biscotti: Coffee's Hottest Accessory

Roman Legions, Christopher Columbus and you. What do all of them have in common? In a word- biscotti! With Mother's Day almost here, many are still pondering the perfect gift idea, whereas others are trying to...

Drunken Negro Head Cookies Inspire Outrage, Lafayette Bakery

A popular Greenwich Village bakery made famous by Sex and the City outraged regulars and locals when it released its "Drunken Negro Face" cookie in "honor" of President Obama's inauguration.  When asked about the seemingly racist cookies Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of...

Halloween Recipe: Red Velvet Devil Dawg Sandwich Cookies

Red velvet cake is one of those Southern U.S. specialties that don’t often see the light of day anywhere else. If you’ve never had it before, a slice of red velvet layer cake could be, visually speaking, a bit...

A Little Melamine In Your Cookies?

Here's yet another health warning about the toxic products coming from the Peoples' Republic of China.  While small children have been hardest hit by melamine in their diet, not much is being said about...

Melamine Cookies Found in Netherlands

Two kinds of Chinese-made cookies have been pulled of the shelves in the Netherlands beause they contained high concentrations of the chemical melamine.  This latest recall is the latest addition to the list of melamine-tainted products being found in food products...

Melamine Milk Scandal Spreads to Europe

New milk powder tests are underway in Europe as regulators concluded that even though Chinese milk imports are banned within the European Union, there may still be contamination within products in Europe that pose...

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day!

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day!!!  There are so many things you can make with chocolate chips...chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, brownies, muffins, ice cream, waffles, granola bars, pie, crepes,...

Girl Scout Sells 17,328 Boxes of Cookies

15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe is financing a trip to Europe with the profits from her sale of 17, 328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Her feat astonished Girl Scout officials and wowed local cookie bakers."Jennifer...

An eighth-grader boy charged of felony

"An eighth-grader (13 years old) from Morton Middle School is accused in putting crumbled cookies, made of peanut butter, into the lunch box of another eight-grader, suffering from severe peanuts allergy."

Girl Scouts boycott cookies to save apes

Some plucky Girl Scouts have decided to take a stand on the cookies that group is famous for. They've learned the production of palm oil, an ingredient in the cookies, is bad for the habitat of endangered...

Japanese Cookies show a Human Face with Ningyo-yaki

They don't talk to you but Ningyo-yaki (or doll shaped cookies) have a human quality to them when they display faces as some do. Japan Airlines Guide to Local Souvenirs of Tokyo describes Ningyoyaki as "baked confectionery with a thin skin surrounding a rich bean...

Mrs. Fields Scrambles to Add Christmas to Online Site « This Week's Top Scrooge

" Type in “Christmas” into the Mrs. Fields website search box and you get a page that states: “Sorry, no records were found with the search parameters you provided. Please try a new search now.” This...

Feds Bust Marijuana-Laced Snack Factory

"SAN FRANCISCO — Federal agents said Thursday that they shut down a factory that made marijuana-laced barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels and other “enhanced” snacks intended for medical users of...

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