Overview of Gourmet Almond Cookies

Series Summary

Recent surveys indicate that nine out of ten people would like cookies which taste better. Suspicions indicate that the ten percent of dissenters are either bitter and resentful dieters or misunderstood the question altogether. You may think that gourmet is a word that only applies to seafood in fancy sauces or small portions in artistic arrangements, but cookies can fall into this category as well. These deluxe cookies are simply richer and have more flavor, be they almond cookies with delicious icing or chocolate cookies with three times the chocolate. Why settle for run-of-the-mill desserts when you can go gourmet with Expert Village!

In this series of free baking videos, our dessert chef to the jet set in Beverly Hills describes her recipes for almond and triple chocolate cookies and takes you through the creation of both. She shows you all of the ingredients you need, how to mix them and how to mold them into some of the best cookies you will ever taste. So watch these videos, cook the cookies, and imagine yourself eating the same treats as celebrities who have just gone shopping on Rodeo Drive!

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Lindsay Loreen and I'm a cookie connoisseur with expertvillage.com today we are going to bake two different kinds of cookies and I'm going to show you how to make a almond cookie and a triple chocolate cookie that I call chocolate therapy. The first step in making your cookie is that you are going want to go to the store and you make sure you have all the ingredients so half through you are not oh I have to go get eggs. So you can get all the ingredients that we have the basic is butter, and I like to use salted butter cause it makes you cookies taste better. You are going to want to get white sugar, brown sugar, flour, salt, baking soda and today we have some crush almonds and we are also going to use some cocoa. So I like to start with a almond cookie and we are going to mix it up just using a mixture like this, this is a normal kitchen aide but if you don't have that at home you can just use a spatula, a wooden spoon and go at it in a bowl and that is fine to. So let's start to mix."