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Gideon’s Bakehouse Coffee Cake Cookie Copycat(?)
Gideon’s Bakehouse describes their limited edition coffee cake cookie as “an extra Buttery Vanilla Bean Cookie filled with Cinnamon Strudel and topped with our Homemade Double Baked Butter Crumbs!” Divine right? Unfortunately, I don’t live anywhere near Gideon’s Bakehouse and they infamously don’t ship their goods. Tragic. As far as I could find, no copycat recipe for this specific cookie exists although there are a couple for the chocolate chip version—which is very very good. So obviously I’m going to try and copycat a cookie that I’ve never actually eaten. Yes, brilliant. This will be a very different endeavor from my copycat Levain Bakery cookie bake-off where I was following…
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Levain Bakery Copycat Recipe Showdown
The Premise *UPDATE 10/5/20* I remade the Bravetart dough and rebaked the top 4 cookies in order to accurately rerank them Pre-quarantine my partner and I were watching Cupcake Jemma’s “NYC cookie” video and they off-handedly remarked that we should roundup all the copycat Levain Bakery recipes and try them all. You can’t just say things like that and not expect me to take it seriously so I got to work gathering 7 recipes and created a spreadsheet of all the main ingredients (flours, sugars, butter, eggs, chocolate, and walnuts). I also added the number of cookies, the size of the cookie dough balls (if stated), chill time, oven temperature…
