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Not For You, Cindy Lou! These Tasty Holiday Treats Are For Grownups

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: 

Warning - this next piece contains tasty-yet-anecdotal evidence based on generalizations¹.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: 

Kids love cookies.

CORNISH: I mean pretty much everyone loves cookies, Ari.

SHAPIRO: Chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, jammy thumbprints, gingersnaps...

CORNISH: And this time of year, you may have noticed cookies are everywhere.

SHAPIRO: ...Shortbread, peanut butter, pecan sandies - anyway...

CORNISH: As you think and plan for your next holiday cookie moment, we wanted to put a few more recipes out there.

SHAPIRO: Under the subheading cookies for grownups - we're thinking treats with ingredients and flavors geared toward adults.

CORNISH: So we asked three bakers³ for suggestions, starting with Genevieve Ko, author of "Better Baking." Her treat - gooey bars with a twist.

GENEVIEVE KO: Miso macadamia nut blondies. They capture all the comfort and warmth of the blondies that kids love - the butter and the brown sugar. But I was really hoping to make them even more complex and more interesting while keeping the spirit of that butteriness.

So what I did is I actually swapped⁴ butter and flour for macadamia nuts, which are so rich and creamy. If you've ever eaten one, you can tell right when you're chewing it that it has this buttery texture⁵ and buttery flavor. And so blending those macadamia nuts with dark brown sugar really gives you the effect of blondies.

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KO: But there's an added element here that gives it this salty, sweet flavor, and it comes from miso. Miso is fermented⁶ soybean paste. And when you put miso with something sweet, it not only gives you that delicious salty sweet balance in a dessert, but it has a lot of umami.

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KO: Umami is that fifth taste that we talk about in Japanese cuisine⁷ which - it's beyond salty in a really savory⁸ way, and it adds this extra oomph, this sort of funky⁹, deep, savory flavor that honestly most children will not appreciate but every grownup will.

SHAPIRO: That's baker² Genevieve Ko talking about her miso macadamia nut blondies.

CORNISH: Our next baker has a cookie kids will appreciate, but you'll want to keep them away from the sauce.

IGNACIO ALVAREZ: Hello. My name's Ignacio Alvarez with Lux Bakery in San Antonio, Texas. I would like to share a outstanding cookie that we like for the holidays - biscochitos with anise. And that's a licorice flavor.

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ALVAREZ: Biscochitos is a shortbread cookie real close - in the same family as snickerdoodles. They are rolled in cinnamon sugar. Roll it when it's warm. When it's cool, the cookies that you didn't roll in cinnamon sugar - I roll it in powdered sugar. Then after I do that, I set it aside, and we add one more thing - liqueur but not in the cookie. We add it in a chocolate sauce for dipping.

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ALVAREZ: Chocolate with at least 50 to 80 percent of cocoa in it, heavy cream - heat it up. Add basil in there - about a pinch of it - and it actually adds a nice little flavor profile. And then we add Licor 43 or Kahlua, Frangelico, Bailey's.

Of course these are really good liqueurs for the holidays, and the cool part is that as you keep eating them, you will get socially lubricated. And you can just dip into it with all the biscochitos with anise in it. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

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CORNISH: That's Ignacio Alvarez of Lux Bakery in San Antonio, Texas.

SHAPIRO: And we can verify this from personal experience. You should snack responsibly. His chocolate sauces really do pack a punch.

CORNISH: The good news - our final cookie suggestion might perk¹⁰ you back up.

DORIE GREENSPAN: I'm a coffee drinker. A lot of people are coffee drinkers, and I wanted a cookie that would be perfect with coffee.

CORNISH: Not only that, they have ground coffee in them.

SHAPIRO: Which is something I can definitely get behind.

CORNISH: Here's baker Dorie Greenspan, author of "Dorie's Cookies," talking about her coffee cardamom cookies.

GREENSPAN: Cardamom is a really interesting spice. It's one of these spices that once you get to know it, you'll recognize it because it's so unusual. It's a warm spice the way cinnamon is, but it also has a little tang to it, almost as though you had some lemon zest¹¹ in there.

It's not a flavor we really know in America, but it's a great flavor with the coffee, with the tiny little bit of cinnamon that's in there and with the molasses - oh, and the brown sugar. So you think it looks like a holiday cookie, a classic spice molasses cookie, but it's a trickster but such a delicious trickster.

CORNISH: Dorie Greenspan's recipe for coffee cardamom cookies and the recipes for our other cookies for grownups - biscochitos with boozy chocolate sauce and miso macadamia nut blondies are at npr.org.

SHAPIRO: So try making them, and don't forget to share.

1 generalizations   

一般化( generalization的名词复数 )； 普通化； 归纳； 概论

参考例句：

• But Pearlson cautions that the findings are simply generalizations. 但是波尔森提醒人们，这些发现是简单的综合资料。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 大脑与疾病
• They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations. 他们纠正了我不成熟的泛泛之论，帮了我大忙。

2 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

3 bakers   

n.面包师( baker的名词复数 )；面包店；面包店店主；十三

参考例句：

• The Bakers have invited us out for a meal tonight. 贝克一家今晚请我们到外面去吃饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The bakers specialize in catering for large parties. 那些面包师专门负责为大型宴会提供食品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。

5 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

6 fermented   

v.（使）发酵( ferment的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）激动；骚动；骚扰

参考例句：

• When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句

7 cuisine   

n.烹调，烹饪法

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。

8 savory   

adj.风味极佳的，可口的，味香的

参考例句：

• She placed a huge dish before him of savory steaming meat.她将一大盘热气腾腾、美味可口的肉放在他面前。
• He doesn't have a very savory reputation.他的名誉不太好。

9 funky   

adj.畏缩的，怯懦的，霉臭的；adj.新式的，时髦的

参考例句：

• The kitchen smelled really funky.这个厨房有一股霉味。
• It is a funky restaurant with very interesting art on the walls.那是一家墙上挂着很有意思的绘画的新潮餐馆。

10 perk   

n.额外津贴；赏钱；小费；

参考例句：

• His perks include a car provided by the firm.他的额外津贴包括公司提供的一辆汽车。
• And the money is,of course,a perk.当然钱是额外津贴。

11 zest   

n.乐趣；滋味，风味；兴趣

参考例句：

• He dived into his new job with great zest.他充满热情地投入了新的工作。
• He wrote his novel about his trip to Asia with zest.他兴趣浓厚的写了一本关于他亚洲之行的小说。