There exists in my sister's cookbook a recipe for what she calls "crack cookies". They are small sugar cookies with a taste that compels you to eat more of them. The secret, apparently, is cream of tartar.
Well, sorry K, I've found the real crack cookies: Mother's Iced Lemonade cookies.
Unlike the picture above, our local grocery establishments only carry the mini-crack cookie bags. This, like a big-8 in a glad bag, just makes them easier to traffic from kitchen to TV room. They are small enough to ferret away in your hoodie pocket or under your sweater vest, to be eaten in the bathroom, in the dark, after sweetly delivering two small circles of tart citrus crunch & munch to your simple and ignorant husband. Oh, there is so much they don't know.
But the crack cookie is a hard mistress. Once the bag is opened, the drive to go all Cookie Monster is impossible to restrain. In five minutes, you come to; a shredded bag of purple and red at your feet, crumbs stuck to your chin, mingling with the cat fust on your sweatshirt and hanging from your hair. And you will start to cry.
You can't say I didn't warn you.
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Really?? Mother's Lemonade Cookies??? I don't think I've ever SEEN them, and quite frankly, I've never found it difficult to resist Mother's cookies (even the little pink and white frosted animal cookies). But I'll keep an open mind, and if what you say is true, I'll bet the second listed ingredient in the lemoncracks is cream of tartar .....
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