When I was a child, I used to put our store-bought cookies on the radiator in my bedroom to warm them up before eating. I don't how I developed the habit. What it a cry for an Easy Bake oven? I only know that there is a specific and beautiful aroma that will fill your home, and then for the rest of your life your memory, when you leave a few Nilla wafers out on your family's heating unit. It's a heady perfume, one that I've recently become re-addicted to.
This past spring, New York City's Magnolia Bakery announced month that they were rolling out a cookie version of their legendary banana pudding. When I heard the news, I all but left a Road Runner style cloud of dust in my wake to get my hands on one. What I didn't yet know was how transformative a cookie baked inside a cookie can be.
