Beer and/or pasties would not even be the strangest of the flavor combinations. Trust me on that.
Yesterday I was talking some possible Christmas cookies combinations, and someone sent me a note saying they've actually had a cookie with a beer-infused frosting, a cookie they said they would probably not try again.
I would probably have to agree with them on that.
That got me to thinking--which, as we all know, can be a very dangerous thing—about some of the strange cookie flavor combinations I've tried over the years. Some have worked, some haven't, and some have become Jim staples. We're talking things like--
Double chocolate with red pepper flakes.
Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
Triple chocolate with crystallized ginger cookies
Blackberry cinnamon cookies
Lemon rosemary cookies.
Lavender sugar cookies
Maple pecan bacon cookies.
And others.
Like I said, not all of them were successful, but several (like the whole wheat chocolate chip and the lavender sugar cookies) have become staples. Sometimes I just like to experiment; sometimes I'll eat a combination in a non-cookie setting and wonder how they'd work together a cookie.
So I conduct an experiment and find out.
The one thing I've wanted to try in a cookie but haven't yet found the perfect partner for is (and try not to gag here) curry powder. I love curry; whether or not it would work in a cookie has yet to be explored. But if I ever think of a way in which it might work, you can be sure that I'll give it a shot. I have no idea what the end result would be like, but I promise to give it a shot.
And, if that's the case, maybe I'll have enough guts to try cookies that taste like beer or pasties. Even if I received some good advice that I shouldn't.
8-)
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