National Cookie Day: Chef Ranveer Brar’s Cookie Crunch Recipe Will Tug At Your Heartstrings

For the longest time, I was satisfied with the cookies available at local stores, and then in lockdown when I started baking my own, I could just never accept those sugary, cardboard-like discs they tried to pass off as cookies. Call me a snob or whatever, but once you start baking your own cookies, and really good ones at that, there is just no going back. The National cookie day is a day for cookie enthusiasts just like us. It is celebrated each year on 4th December.  

It was somewhere in middle-east where sugar gained immense currency among bakers and confectioners in 7th Century A.D.  By 14th century, this sugar derived from sugar cane had not only become a mainstay in Europe, but people had started making many sweet treats with it like cakes, puddings and early versions of cookies. Over the years the recipe of cookies got refined and more and more ingredients started featuring in the fairly simple recipe. The cookies also reached America, and most of us know about the sweet accident that led to the birth of chocolate chip cookies. It is said that when bits of dark chocolate accidentally landed on cookie dough and got baked as is, they came out to be so drool-worthy that the makers decided to take it outside to the world, the rest, as they say, is history.  

So How Did A National Cookie Day Came Into Being?

Calling it ‘a fun thing to do’, in 1987 Matt Nader of the San Francisco-based Blue Chip Cookie Company created National Cookie Day. Even in Random House’s The Sesame Street Dictionary, one can find a mention of this day. Ever since the late eighties, National cookie day has been celebrated on the 4th of December across the world.  

This year, we have celebrity chef Ranveer Brar give us his ultimate cookie crunch recipe. All you need are six ingredients for this creamy cookie sandwich. Here goes:  

Cookies Crunch Recipe By Chef Ranveer Brar

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp condensed milk
  • 4 tbsp ready custard
  • 50 ml cream
  • 100g whipped cream
  • 7 tbsp HERSHEY'S Strawberry Flavoured Syrup
  • 10 cookies or any biscuit

Method:  

  1. Take a bowl, add condensed milk, ready custard, cream, whipped cream, HERSHEY'S Strawberry Flavoured Syrup.  
  2. Next, blend the mixture until it is thick and creamy and carefully fill it in a piping bag.  
  3. Proceed to make sandwiches
  4. Pipe the mixture onto one biscuit
  5. Now place another biscuit on top and squeeze gently, make sure you do not apply a lot of pressure lest the cookie breaks.
  6. Refrigerate the cookies for close to 20-25 minutes
  7. Drizzle some strawberry syrup on top before serving.

Want to make a cookie from scratch? Here’s a recipe I am obsessed with right now.  

 Here’s wishing you all a very Happy National Cookie Day.