What’s on the Menu:
Preserved Lemon & Olive Oil Cookies
Halvah & Smoked Salt Cookies
White Chocolate Rye & Pretzel Cookies

Move over, chocolate chip. Step aside, snickerdoodle. Sorry, cocoa crinkle: there are new cookies in town this summer. Join guest chef Benjamina Ebuehi of Great British Bake Off fame and author of “I’ll Bring Dessert” at this pre-recorded class where you’ll learn three spins on classic cookies that just might dethrone your standards. First, Benjamina shows you how to use preserved lemon peel and olive oil to give simple sugar cookies a bit of grown-up attitude. Plus, the strategic use of olive oil means you don’t have to cream butter and sugar, which has to be the least fun part of the cookie equation. More of a chocolate person? We have two options for you. You can complement dark chocolate’s richness with sesame halva and spike a double chocolate cookie with smoked salt. Or you can become the most popular person at the party when you roll in with a skillet-sized cookie—don’t worry, you’ll learn how to bake it perfectly—studded with white chocolate and pretzels in a dough that features two unexpected ingredients. As we bake, Benjamina covers baking essentials, including how to chill and freeze cookie dough for the future and which cookies are her favorites for ice cream sandwiches. Quick-cooking, easily adaptable and immensely crowd-pleasing, these cookies are our new favorite summer desserts.

About Benjamina: Great British Bake Off alumni Benjamina writes recipes, styles and creates content for media. Benji is an ambassador for the incredible social enterprise Luminary Bakery, and co-founded The Sister Table with her sister Bonita. Her food blog, Carrot and Crumb, was a finalist in the 2019 Saveur Blog Awards. "I'll Bring Dessert" publishes in April 2024.

What's Included: You will receive a .zip file that includes the cooking school video as well as PDFs of the recipe instructions.
How to Download: After you purchase your Milk Street Cooking School Video, you will receive an email from the Milk Street Store with the subject line "Your Cooking School Video is Ready for Download." Within this email there is a link that will direct you to a download page, click download now to download the .zip folder. To unzip the folder, double-click the zipped folder to open it. Please note: your video download file will have an approximate size of 500 MB.