Italian vs. American COOKIES

[@PastaGrammar]

Buona domenica! What are YOUR favorite cookies?

[@lasercorn2399]

My absolute favorite cookie of all time are pignoli cookies. C'mon, Eva! Make it happen! :)

[@howardbartlett3026]

Since Eva LOVES peanut butter and I think Harper likes it as well. Plus both of you enjoy chocolate do try the Decadent Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies at your local Super Walmarts baking dept. First try them as is. Then take 2 of them and make a sandwich using your favorite good peanut butter. Last take 2 of them and add a thick layer of REAL vanilla ice cream, frozen Greek Yogurt, gelato or Mexican Paleta (which is much like Italian Gelato).

[@guglielmoscecspir1053]

Give me a Gentilino and I will leverage my happiness.

[@scottloose4140]

Sour Cream Cookies Makes ~ 7 doz. 2 C Gran sugar 1/2 lb melted butter 2 eggs 1/2 qt. sour cream 1 heaping tsp. baking soda in sour cream 1/2 tsp. lemon extract 3 C or less of Flour - gradually add flour testing one cookie at a time to avoid too thick batter With electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on high until creamy. Add eggs, lemon, sour cream until smooth Add Flour gradually on Low until combined, dough soft like cake battter Drop on cookie sheet Bake at 375˚ for 8-10 min. or 350° for 10-12 min. until centers are set. Ice with lemon flavored frosting and sprinkle with colored sugar Frosting • 1/2 cup butter • 2 1/2 cups powdered icing sugar • 1 teaspoon lemon extract • 2 tablespoons milk With electric mixer, beat butter until smooth, add sugar, extract, and milk gradually until smooth and desired consistency, not too thin.

[@xSunshinex4206]

Homebaked thumbprint cookies, with raspberry jam filling 😋.

[@edward886]

How can anyone not love Eva? [hypothetical question]. She's opinionated, straightforward, delightful, charming, and hilarious. Her reactions to cookie dough (and Nutter Butter) are priceless. Grazie, Eva, e buon appetito!!

[@bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb-]

The recipe has changed over the last three decades for American cookies because there has been a introduction of high fructose corn syrup into all type of foods, like ketchup and salad dressings, and other preservatives and chemicals that were not there during our childhoods.

[@robertsteele474]

Hydrox debuted in the United States in 1908, and was manufactured by Sunshine Biscuits for over 90 years. Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox. Hydrox is clearly a better cookie that suffered due to the Nabisco marketing juggernaut.

[@borealisnight1]

That look on Eva's face when she tasted the chocolate chunk cookie dough was the BEST! Love you guys.

[@drmarx999]

You are spot-on about the Animal Crackers! When I was a kid (in the late 1800s) these came in an oblong box that looked like a circus car (they were drawn through town in the parade from the train depot to the circus location). If memory serves me correct, you could cut the bottom half of the wheels free from the bottom of the box, fold them out, and then pull the whole thing with the carrying handle (detached from one end). Imagination . . . what a terrible thing to lose!

[@zenbear4149]

NO! Those (Nabisco) are the same cookies as in the boxes (which are still sold). The ones Harper is talking about are a cheap knock off that appeared in the 1980s or 90s. They are gross.

[@IamN...]

Yes. When we were kids we'd tie each box together with the carrying string, to pretend it was a train on the way to the circus. Of course, the train would derail, and as the animals escaped, we would first bite the legs off so they couldn't run away.

[@kelnmiirkageoni1667]

Late 1800s? Are you like more than hundred years old?

[@drmarx999]

@@kelnmiirkageoni1667 No, not really! However, there are some days when I feel that old!

[@Frank1e.b0i]

@@drmarx999 How could you live through the late 1800? You would have to be at least 123 years old.

[@stephsviolin]

You're remembering the Stauffer's animal crackers in the big bulk bags. They're the crispy puffy ones that are more like crackers than cookies. The Barnum's in the train car boxes are thinner and more crumbly.

[@brian52763]

OMG! That expression when she ate the raw cookie dough, PRICELESS! Sh's one of us now!

[@VirgoLunaKnight]

Ikr 😍😍😍

[@whitestar618]

harper, you take the oreo cookie side without the creme and you smash them up with whipped topping and it becomes desert- add chocolate surp over it- my ex wife used a graham cracker crust and filled it with the mixture and called it oreo pie.

[@mattlazarus2489]

Ava's face when the cookie dough hit made me laugh and smile. Greatest reaction ever ☺️

[@slam854]

When a package is re-designed so is the recipe. It often means a new distributor has been added and their recipe differs from the original. This is specially true with soda pop. If you track back to the original baker their product will be the same. Galco's Market in LA taught me this. By ferreting out the original soda pop plant for a brand its recipe will be original.

[@alessandromancuso7242]

I Baiocchi, i baci di dama, i canestrelli, le ofelle, gli amaretti, i ricciarelli, ecc.... Quanti meravigliosi biscotti ci sono in Italia.... I biscotti sono probabilmente una delle più grandi invenzioni italiane di tutti i tempi!

[@ID4N13L3I]

Eva: "I chose the lion because of my hair" Harper: "I chose the elephant because of my..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@mielledowney2379]

Grisbi is my go to cookie here IN Toronto, CANADA 🇨🇦 . I live in an Italian community so you can pick them up in the regular grocery stores for 2 to 3 dollars 💸.

[@brianperkins3653]

the animal crackers I remember as a kid came in the small red rectangular boxes. I don't recall them being called anything about Barnum. I googled today and see even "vintage" ones in the same red box with Barnum on them now. This has led me down the rabbit hole of questioning my sanity and Mandela effect.

[@carolyn6689]

Yeah I googled them too and found the same shapes Harper remembers and they were a brand called "Stouffer's"🧐 they look like the ones I ate too ,they were also cheaper than the brand named ones.

[@syxepop]

I do remember what happened (maybe I'm biased by my Marketing background in College). Nabisco many decades ago began their animal crackers (animal-shaped sugar cookies) with a reference to the circus (Ringling Bros. / Barnum & Bailey, don't know if Nabisco did license the name from them, but they most likely did for years), came only in a 1-2 person rectangle box adorned like a CIRCUS CAGE, bars and all with drawings of the animals. The shapes (most likely Harper shown the Stauffer's brand of animal crackers, which still have the "vague" shape form Barnum's used to have). In the 2020's Mondelez (today's bakers of Nabisco) finally gave in to the "cancel culture crowd" and changed their packaging to the animals being shown UNCAGED. Also they took the opportunity to begin to sell Barnum's in other sizes (the original size with the new drawings is still available) as well with the new more accurate animal forms. I don't know if Nabisco changed the cookie recipe, though. If you yearn for the old Barnum's forms and taste you could always buy Stauffer's, which is widely available in US stores.

[@Caranora]

@@carolyn6689 I find those "Stouffer's" cookies usually at like Dollar General stores, cheaper brand but they do taste better I feel.

[@nickiealtieri-enochs1914]

My fig tree is producing this year. Yay!!! My great-grandparents brought two fig trees with them to America. It's one of my favorite memories growing up eating fresh figs when working in the family garden every Sunday. 😁🇮🇹

[@PastaGrammar]

Nice! We really should try growing figs here, the climate should be really good...

[@eltigre_01]

@@PastaGrammar We live in AZ and they do amazing! We just had some Brown Turkey variety and they tasted great. I always caution to grow figs away from citrus because of the little black bugs that get into the eye of the figs.

[@nowwhat33]

@@eltigre_01 My father moved to France after my mother applied for a divorce. He came to get us from the Netherlands every holiday. He had bought a lot of ground with 80 walnut trees and a couple of figs. Nothing I ever tasted beats those walnuts and figs. 🤗 they were so, so good.

[@meercatt]

It won’t let me share but Americas Test Kitchen has the “Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie” recipe where you brown the butter instead of creaming it with the sugar. I have to agree it is the best I have ever had. I also hit it with a bit of sea salt as soon as they come out of the oven .. it is like toffee flavor. Amazing! You might be able to find it online.

[@Cndnwoman]

I absolutely agree🌻

[@urbanpoodle]

That ATK tip revolutionized my cookie making life!

[@kfire3169]

You got a different brand of animal crackers. The ones you purchased are the Barnum’s ones that used to come in that box with the little string handle which are actually the OG. You wanted the Stauffer Animal “Crackers “

[@danieltaylor4185]

I love baking around the holidays. I have a lot of favorites and I don't end up making them all every year. But I love them all. Chocolate chip cookies, M&M Cookies, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, peanut butter blossoms, no-bake cookies, gingerbread, frosted pumpkin cookies, molasses cookies... I even like pizzelles, which only a few other people in my family also enjoy. Just listing them off brings back holiday memories. I wonder if Eva would like buckeyes - they're basically a kind of peanut butter fudge dipped in chocolate - very popular in some parts of the Midwest.

[@ilarya8463]

Ringo has also chocolate inside or a new one: hazelnut (they are very good). Than baiocchi are great, also togo, gocciole...I made the same things Eva make with atena with spicchi di sole.

[@xSunshinex4206]

I love these comparison videos, when you compare regular foods and/or ingredients found in both countries 🌻❤ "...and that is how the cookie crumbles!"

[@analogbunny]

When I was in my 20s, someone had to explain to me that Oreos are chocolate + vanilla flavor. For my whole childhood I just thought they were "brittle charcoal biscuits with an over sugary paste filling" 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@rini6]

The vanilla taste is very strong. Now, you may not like it but I can’t imagine missing it.

[@mariacristinascala7015]

I always thought they taste burnt....

[@briansmith48]

Oreos were not the first cookie of chocolate and cream filling. That one would be Hydrox. Oreo is the knockoff. Oreo stole the concept from Hydrox. I saw it on the History channel: The Food that Built America.

[@blueskies773]

Poor vanilla flavoring. Your description is more accurate.

[@rini6]

@@blueskies773 Poor or not, I love it. 😂😂😂

[@essaywhu]

Eva’s face when eating some raw cookie dough deserved to be the climax of a movie. I saw so much in that one expression. It was like her inner beauty somehow transcended her outer beauty for just a moment. Some real Chaplin in City Lights type stuff right there. So cinematic. So photogenic. Completely perfect. A once in a lifetime shot. I’m sure Harper sees that look all the time but it’s another thing to catch it on film. It was so euphoric it almost seems like it should be a secret.

[@pompe221]

Watching her smile grow was like watching a sunrise sped up.

[@drmarx999]

In an earlier video, I mentioned Eva's Chaplin connection. Amazing, isn't it?

[@candygram4435]

@@Hypervigilant I thought it was raw eggs to be worried about…never stopped me though

[@howardbartlett3026]

@@candygram4435 I agree with you now. According to my sources at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness center the odds of getting a bad egg that will make us sick are about 1 in a 120,000. I'm pretty certain I won't eat that many in a lifetime especially since the old S.A.D. (Standard American Diet which actually should be called SAAD as in Stupid A$$ American Diet) caused me to hardly eat them for 30 years (from my teens until my late 30's) and I'm 55 now. Every time I ate a deviled egg (a favorite) I wondered if I should wait until I got to the Cardiologists office to do so 😉😱🤭😉😋😋😋

[@corpsefoot758]

Right? The lighting, rhythm, even the music all together Flawless shot, and Harper was lucky enough to catch it. “Movie magic” as they say

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

There are two different types of “animal crackers,” Harper. You are eating the kind I like, and you grew up on the kind I hate. The batter is different.

[@syxepop]

You mean one (the old Barnum's and still on other brands) that was fluffier rather than today's Barnum's, which is the conventional crunchy sugar cookie.

[@betsystone5733]

You got the wrong ones. Stouffers is the one you remember from childhood. I don’t like barnums.

[@RBFSmurf]

I came here to say this. I loved the Barnums crackers. They were more cookie-like. I liked the ones you grew up on ok, but not as much as the Barnums.

[@rebeccadawn8212]

I got Barnums Animal Crackers one day so that I could let my Welsh hubs try them, but when I seen and tasted them, they were NOT what I remembered and I had both the "knock off" brand and the Barnums. I like the subtle sweet flavor of the "knock off" brand better and are what I remembered Barnums USED to be! Get the other ones and have her try them!

[@aeolia80]

Yeah, the other ones are a different brand and taste a lot like a Maria cookie

[@marcobiagioli3905]

for my breakfasts, Ringo and Atene.. For the cantucci I am delighted that you have chosen a recipe from my city, traditionally they are made with Calabrian almonds from a historic bakery that has reached perfection. But the competition after 150 years of unsuccessful attempts has tried new ways, and those with figs are my favorites, but apricot, chocolate, and candied orange peel are also very good.

[@andrewjones1578]

I always thought my father was strange when he crushed up several Graham crackers in a bowl, and added milk until it became a porridge, and ate it with a spoon. I guess he just picked up some Italian habits growing up in Germany. :)

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

No, my grandfather was swiss German and he used to put stale bread into milk coffee. Bit different, not that much though. It used to be a quite common thing.

[@stellaz2595]

I did this as a child too, and I grew up in the U.S. No Italian blood!

[@jimv1983]

My step brother used to do that. I always had to leave the room when he did it because it made me gag just watching him eat it. It was soggy slop.

[@marziamira7895]

Oh yes, the famous “pappetta” made with milk and cookies. When I was a little girl my breakfast at my grandma’s was bite sized pieces of bread soaked in a cup of milk with a sprinkle of expresso coffee stolen from my aunt’s cup, I still remember the taste, it was so good.

[@QueenDarkChocolate]

I grew up in the US doing that with warm milk. It's a classic comfort food when not feeling well.

[@howardbartlett3026]

Eva and Harper should read the ingredients list on the back of the Nutter Butter cookies. They have been a favorite of mine since I was a little boy. After the recommendations on hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils were changed I stopped eating them (other than 1 once in awhile). Instead I make (or buy) good peanut butter cookies and fill 2 of them with good all natural peanut butter instead. Almond, hazelnut and pistachio versions work great as well. Adding chocolate chips to the cookie dough or dipping them in a chocolate fondue is magical.

[@winter10x06]

Hahaha that smile in the part after Eva tasted the cookie dough says it all! 😂 just like the time she tried s’mores for the first time! What a winning moment!

[@widdershinnz]

I love that y’all both cooked together in this episode, it was a good mix of review and cooking, no notes ☺️

[@nicholaskarako5701]

The Nutter butter cookies are one of my favorite store bought cookies, but as far as a simple cookie with out all of the bells and whistles. I like the Keebler Sandies pecan shortbread cookies. Favorite store bought cookie is Keebler chips deluxe with peanut butter cups.

[@natefunk1]

You don't throw away the extra cookie, you crush them up and turn it into pie crust.

[@jpbjr64]

Since she really liked the regular Nutter Butter cookies, she'll definitely love the Nuttber butter "Patties" which I've been eating for 40 years. So, much better and much more PB in them. Put them in the refrigerator first and then eat them. Let me know if you try them and how you guys liked them.

[@TatendaPasi]

Just found your vlog, also just came back from my niece's wedding in Vibo Valentia, Calabria so now I am going to cook everything your recommend that is Calabria - my favourite cookie is Grisbi - I found them at an Italian grocery up here in Vancouver Canada and I ate a whole package in one sitting.

[@rainey1987]

Being from New Mexico , my favorite cookie will always be a Biscochito. Making them is even more fun ! I have such vivid memories of my mom using a thread spool to stamp the tops of the cookies Because that’s how her mother did it. Oh memoriesss

[@PastaGrammar]

We'll have to try those!

[@susancheer5981]

I lived in New Mexico for 25 years and learned how to make bisochitos from a neighbor. I made those and pizzelles every Christmas...yumm, so good.

[@jennasimms2721]

Next you should make homemade peanut butter cookies! They are so good and easy to make and I bet Ava would love them!

[@harold3able]

Great video, as usual. My favorite part is at 18:56, when Harper picks up a little of Eva's wonderful Italian accent saying 'egg.' As a native English speaker who has lived abroad for the past 20 years, yeah, it happens.

[@sofiaparolini2982]

When I was a child I believed grisbi were only for people in hospital, because every time my grandma bought them they were for someone who was in hospital… the first time I was admitted I was happy ‘cause finally I could try them … By the way, ringo are WAY better than Oreos!

[@monkeygraborange]

Contrary to a massive advertising campaign, Oreos are as lame as can be!

[@carolmerlini9971]

Yes, I agree about the Ringo. Definitely better than those awful Oreo. But I only like the Vanilla Ringo.

[@sofiaparolini2982]

@@carolmerlini9971 me too!!! My mom once dreamed about them and the next morning we found a packet right outside our door 😅

[@marziamira7895]

In Italy you can actually taste the chocolate from cookies, ice cream, and cakes and anything else that is supposed to taste like chocolate.

[@ericpmoss]

One of the strengths of a Nutter Butter is how much peanut butter it can scoop up. BTW, use the de-stuffed Oreos in cheesecake crust or in ice cream shakes.

[@MichaelBrooksmsb400]

I prefer Italian Cookies over those we have in the 🇺🇸. My Grandmother always baked Biscotti....Almond, and also Chocolate.

[@obwill]

(UK) my favourite biscuits are Fox's Jam n Cream. They're two shortbread biscuits sandwiched with a vanilla cream and raspberry jam and finished with a light sprinkling of sugar.

[@kevinwilliams1421]

What about a chocolate hob nob

[@analogbunny]

The look on Eva's face when she tried the raw cookie dough was... the correct response 👍 As for the recipe, something they do on tv that always frustrates me is they mix their cookie dough with a machine or a spoon. Really now, cookies are best when you get in their with your hands (thoroughly washed, of course). You can feel in your hands that the dough is mixed, and the warmth from your hands helps dissolve the brown sugar and butter into each other. The best best is to make a log out of your dough, wrap it in waxed paper, then leave it in the fridge overnight - 8hrs+ is best. This lets the flavours mix just a little more, but more importantly it lets the dough dry out just a little. When you bake them later, with less moisture in them, they get a mild Maillard reaction and the whole cookie caramelizes slightly. It gives them more of a brown sugar taste, and makes them chewy and for longer.

[@zedudli]

Yes, aging the dough in the fridge works magic into the cookies. When i have to impress someone, i let the dough rest a full 3 days in the fridge. Past that it’s not noticeable (i’ve tried a 7 days rest once, they were not noticably better than the 3 days ones). Just use an airtight container, as the cookie dough tends to eagerly suck up all of the fridge odor 👍🏻

[@roy_for_real2674]

+salt from handsweat

[@falconlore9666]

That and I like just a pinch or 2 of cinnamon to enhance the chocolate flavor.

[@realred4u2]

For sure the Nutter Butters! I love shortbread thumb print cookies with different types of jelly, any type of lemon cookies, but my favorite are the fig filled orange juice dough cookies we make at Christmas that my Nana used to make.

[@Bianchi8000]

An absolute wonderful chocolate chip cookie recipe is on the back of the Nestle semi sweet chocolate chips. It's the original recipe for Toll House Cookies. You can use other brands of chips, but semi sweet is the way to go because the batter is so sweet you need the contrast. Oh and use brown sugar that packs, it should not be granular like white sugar is. Maybe it's a U.S. thing, maybe in Italy it is granular. But if Ava liked the dough she made try it with the packed brown sugar (maybe there is more molasses in the U.S. brown sugar....)

[@Requiem4aDr3Am]

Some of my favorite cookies are Mother's Iced oatmeal cookies, Thin mints, pepperidge farms sausalito, and keebler's fudge stripes.

[@baconbap]

My grandma always had Mother's Iced Oatmeal Cookies on hand. She died 40 years ago, so they've been around a long time.

[@Requiem4aDr3Am]

@@baconbap yup always a favorite of mine. My mom used to send me them in a monthly package when I was a missionary in Guatemala and way outside the capital city roughing it in the countryside where I couldn't get anything like it. Always fond memories of those cookies.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

I looked at the ingredients for milk chocolate Milanos. It has baking powder, but not ammonium carbonate. My favorite Pepperidge Farm cookies are Bordeaux. But then, I like molasses cookies. Tate's Bake Shop makes some very good chocolate chip cookies (with several variations). I really like their chocolate chip with walnuts. The company is based in New York, and their cookies are available in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I live), so I'm pretty sure it's a national brand. Hydrox cookies were invented in 1908, four years before Oreos. They went off the market for a while, but someone brought them back a few years ago. A different company makes them now, and I don't know how they compare to the original Hydrox.

[@candygram4435]

For store bought cookies, I am partial to Anna’s Swedish ginger cookies. I also like sugar wafers

[@joedavid0798]

The end when you guys rated eachothers cookies you just made and said 6+ at the same time was adorable. Love these videos.

[@iReporteriReporting]

Fig newtons are my USA cookie crave! By the way, here in Europe we have animal crackers that are made into 20 different animals and they are great! Barnum's animal crackers got nothing on them.

[@davefarragut3192]

I have two. Mother's Circus Animal Cookies (the white and pink frosted ones, with sprinkles). Loved them since I was a child. And Vanilla Wafers. Preferably Nilla brand. It was something that my dad and I would enjoy together.

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

Store bought vs. Home-made. Home-made all the way. Nabisco also changed the Oreo formula. It is missing a key ingredient from the original.

[@JackFate76]

Except for condoms.

[@barneycoffman6663]

Wow Harper, I relate to the question on Animal Cookies. You showed them in a large bag, I remember they came in a small box with a string handle....

[@bushbasher85]

I am always willing to give a thumbs up to any Harper and Eva videos, but when you throw clips of Cookie Monster in there, Then there’s seriously needs to be a love button for these videos.

[@marystrope1345]

LOVED those clips !! they made my mood for the day ☺️

[@marymaryquitecontrary9765]

Actually, the unique Oreo flavor & color comes from the type of cocoa powder they use. Black Cocoa is used. I ordered some from Amazon & was shocked as soon as I opened the package. It smelled exactly like opening a package or Oreos. I have since used it in baking cakes & the taste is the classic Oreo flavor. Worth the purchase if you're interested in Oreo flavored baking. It costs about $15 for a 1lb package...

[@als.2983]

At long last, a recipe I can share with Eva. Here is a riff on Eva's favorite milk soaked cookie guilty-pleasure, Atene Doria. To tip my hand, rating is a 7 plus. Glass of cold milk. Sink Nutter Butters and submerge them in the milk. Wait 90 seconds or less (this part is hard, you will be tempted to fish them out too soon). Fish out a single Nutter Butter with a spoon. Keep fishing until all Nutter Butters are gone. Re-fill your glass with Nutter Butters until your heart's content or all the milk is soaked up. Play with the submerge time until you find the perfect balance between soggy goodness and solid cookie crunch. At the end you will be left with a milk-soaked cookie goop at the bottom of your glass, enjoy this last bit.

[@PastaGrammar]

I will try it! ❤️

[@michaelmcdermott209]

At around 19:27 it is very important to continually clean the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Oatmeal Scotchies are my favorite homemade cookies.

[@ragazzotexano]

1. I always put a little spin on my chocolate chip cookies and add a cinnamon to the batter. Very yummy. 2. Upvote on Girl Scout Cookies! It would be interesting to see what Eva’d think of Thin Mints or Samoas straight from the freezer.

[@bhanani5480]

I loved our snacks growing up New Zealand in the 80's but as an adult I tend to just snack on potato chips. One thing I have noticed is that our snacks are definitely not as I remember, but I'm sure this is because over time the ingredients have changed. But not only has the taste changed but the packaging seems small even though the price has gone up. I'm definitely going to try making the choc chip recipe

[@pedanticm]

My ex's grandma would say that when you break a cookie, all the calories fall out. :D Also, Eva's reaction to raw cookie dough was gold.

[@PastaGrammar]

😂 That sounds like something Eva's mom would say

[@eleo_b]

My little brother used to refuse to eat a broken cookie from a very young age. He’d rather not have a cookie than a broken cookie. My parents used to always tease him with this, first offering a broken cookie, which he would not take and then see his face light up when they “found” a whole cookie.

[@Barbaralatrevisana]

In Veneto we have a similar cookie to cantucci but we call it “sbreghette”. They don’t have figs, but they have either hazelnuts or almonds, and fennel seeds. Same cooking process. They look very similar. Enjoyed your video.

[@widdershinnz]

When Ava said “I thought Oreos was a cheap version of…” i was sure she was about to reveal a package of Hydrox cookies!

[@briansmith48]

I know. Because Hydrox actually came out first. Oreo stole the idea, and then improved on the recipe.

[@Jobo89]

My favourite pasta is spaghetti alle Vongole, I would love a video recipe from you guys, love your channel

[@Requiem4aDr3Am]

Most probably they changed the recipe for animal cookies. I'm finding a lot of the things I loved as a kid have been changed for cheaper ingredients and the flavors have suffered as a result.

[@arianaa4558]

Yes! I’m pretty sure Nabisco, for one, changed their Oreo formulation about 10 yrs ago at least. The wafers previously tasted more like chocolate, with more black cocoa flavor. The filling used to taste like vanilla. So many manufacturers have reformulated to drive down costs. It’s sad.

[@liannaescano9878]

I was so happy while I was in Italy that I got some grisbi gluten free ones! They were super delicious. I hadn’t known ahead of time about the brand, but at one of the little rest stop stations between Tuscany and Rome had them and they were a yummy pick me up

[@My-cat-Kimchi]

I can’t stand cookies in the stores, except Nate’s. You should have had her try it. I also add a little instant coffee to all my chocolate cookie recipes. It brings out more of the chocolate flavor. Yum.

[@mohamedeassa]

+1 Add the instant coffee to any chocolate dessert including brownies as well

[@jenniferwinsor7740]

I worked for a bakery that had the coolest cookies. They were a sandwich and the cookie part was like a butter cookie cut with a fluted edged cutter, sandwiched with raspberry jam inside two cookies. Maple flavored frosting on top with chopped walnuts on top. The bakers baked the cookies and we sandwiched the cookies, flavored the frosting, frosted them and dipped them in the chopped walnuts. Sweet but quite delicious. The difference in the soft jamb and cookies abuts and frosting made them unique.

[@pqrstsma2011]

on the one hand, i'm surprised that Eva's lived in the US for the past 4-5(?) years but hasn't tasted any of these very common cookies, but on the other hand, i did once have a roommate who'd already been in the US for 15 years at that point and did not know what a _jalapeño_ was..... 🤷‍♂

[@eleo_b]

I can totally imagine it for the cookies though. I associate cookies with my childhood and as an adult I hardly ever eat or buy cookies. So I can understand you wouldn’t buy them. I also can’t really think of situations where you get offered, for example, an Oreo, as an adult.

[@pqrstsma2011]

@@eleo_b come to think of it, that does make sense...

[@nataliefoss5629]

Please make Struffoli!! My grandmother use to make it when we lived in Brookly to remind her of home. I loved them growing up but haven't had them since I was a kid ...

[@rini6]

I love Oreos. I admit it. BTW, they are “accidentally” vegan. (I agree that they don’t taste chocolaty. The vanilla taste is great imho)

[@pabloguerra3028]

Great video as always.. In my country I am able to find American cookies as well as some of the Italian cookies referred by Eva. Will have to give them a try. looks good! The Biscotti recipe looked like a great recipe for the holidays. Love Chocolate Chip cookies'. My favorite American cookie is the Keebler Soft Bake chocolate chip cookies, my favorite Italian that I have tried is the Gastone Lago Roll Break..with Hazlenuts so tasty.

[@dianapohe]

Guys but... Gocciole! What about them? Now they launched them in coconut flavour as well 😍

[@iolandagirleanu9006]

Grisbi!! OMG I haven't eaten them since I was a kid! I also love the Balocco cookies with chocolate chips, yum!

[@donaldbergin9937]

The Milano cookies started as open faced cookies but stuck together so they renamed them Milano and made them sandwiched together

[@cls5001]

Nutter Butter cookies are great ground up and used like a graham cracker crust for a peanut butter pie. My favorite other than Nutter butter of course is Soft Batch heated for 10 seconds in the microwave.

[@catherineyork812]

In Italy you can get Grisbi in different flavours: chocolate, pistacchio, coconut, lemon, hazlenut as well as limited special editions such as strawberry cream. My favourite flavour is lemon. I also love Ringo though prefer Oreos. I often buy Cantucci but having a recipe for them will undoubtedly be very useful once I leave Italy.I can't wait to try it out. So thanks for the recipe. American style cookies are always amazing.

[@icoborg]

too bad the original recipe is no more since the parmalat crack

[@gk891]

Growing up, I was very fond of Royal Dansk butter cookies. We would always have a tin of those for Christmas. But I'm not sure if those count as North American since those cookies originated from Denmark.

[@kimkennedy123]

Italian/Mexican wedding cookies! I also love snickerdoodles (my own homemade version).

[@uncopino]

lemon grisbì are the best grisbì! harper, until you dip the pan di stelle in cold milk, you haven’t really tried pan di stelle. if you wanna take it one step further, couple two pan di stelle with nutella in the middle, soak the whole thing in milk until soft and eat it one bite. thank me later

[@codypendragons]

One more thing I'm going to add, Oreos come in double stuff version. However the best version is the original version, the ratio is perfect. Double stuff is too much, so Harper, you ruined the experience that's a child's view(not a bad view). You may be able to appreciate the original painstaking process that the original Oreo cookie makers went through in order to bring you the perfect original version.

[@PastaGrammar]

Fair enough! But what about my beloved Oreo mountain? 🤔

[@greenmachine5600]

I like Oreo thins

[@mb0314]

Love them both, and will be trying both. Made a lot of chocolate chip cookies in my time, but I will go for the chocolate chunks. Eva’s cookies look awesome. Thank you as always😘

[@myrrdyn]

For the record, Oreos (1912) are a knock-off of Hydrox (1908), but no one remembers it. I personally think Oreos taste like stale cardboard with too much sugar, but that's just me

[@zontzooit2415]

12:19 I DO THAT BUT WITH MARIA COOKIES (you can find them in the hispanic/latino isle or stores) except i dont make them into a porrage texture i just let them soak until theyre not crunchy anymore and them eat them with a spoon i dont mix it though. 10/10 recommend and i also think eva should try them as well they also i think recently? came out with these orange oreo type of cookies theyre so good

[@elz6550]

The best Italian cookies at the moment for me are the ‘Nutella biscuits’ 🤭😱😳😵‍💫🤤🤤🤤 Did you try?

[@wingsabre]

There was an app that would give you the recipes for the perfect chocolate chip cooks. It was called cookulus and it was available back when iphone4 was out but it’s now not available. I think the company went under. Till this day I wish it was still around. There’s no real perfect chocolate chip cookie but really what you like the most and this defunct app allowed you to pick your perfect texture, thickness, and chew/cake factor to the cookie and it would give you a metric version that would work. It was also all based on the size of an egg, so everything is a ratio on how many eggs you would use.

[@aris1956]

“Milano”….the Americans, it seems, do a bit like the Germans here in Germany, who often put Italian names or words on their products.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

All the Pepperidge Farms cookies are named after cities the company president wanted to visit on vacation, they are otherwise unconnected to the cities they're named after.

[@aris1956]

@@joshuarichardson6529 Oh….interesting ! Therefore products of that company all have city names ? Is Milan the only Italian city he has visited ?

[@GiftWrapped]

For the best baking use C&H Bakers super fine sugar it comes in a box that looks like a milk carton. Bartenders use it for drinks Also Brown your butter on the stove top and pour in a container over night let it firmup

[@ice9snowflake187]

I always thought that Oreos were an imitation of Hydrox cookies.

[@ashleybennett7903]

That's correct, Oreo were the off brand of hydrox. Oreos were better so, bye bye hydrox. Oreos are also kosher for our friends that need that.🙂

[@rabeapakind3709]

Hydrox 1909 Orio 1912

[@jimburns3564]

I'm glad you didn't try to sneak Fig Newtons past Eva. Also, Eva's first bite reaction to chocolate chip dough is adorable 6+

[@juzepi3848]

During our month's stay in Rome, we found a cookie that blew us away, especially dipped in our morning cappuccino. It's Pavesi Gocciole Extra Dark (sent olio di palma, certo). You'll give them a 7!! I have a picture of the bag, but I can't attach it here.

[@fusadiluna]

I can't believe she didn't bring gocciole pavesi into the competition!

[@Hastdupech8509]

God, my favorite cookies even by themselves (I know they're dry but idc, they're just too good)

[@PastaGrammar]

Actually, Eva was hoping to introduce me to those but at the time they were out of stock on Amazon and other sellers couldn't ship them to us in time. Definitely on the "to try" list!

[@MrMattDat]

Harper, you are correct that Animal Crackers have changed dramatically over the years (both the shapes and the ingredients). Eva, as a kid we would be fed "mush" when we were sick. Grahamp crackers broken up and soaked in a cup of milk. Yup, you end up with mush (and you could keep it down!). Great video again!!

[@riccardo8356]

Oreos are overrated,I don't get why they're so popular

[@jenm6037]

My neighbor once brought over Nutella biscuits, and they are addictive. Thank you for the links. I hope to order each and every Italian cookie mentioned.

[@arianaa4558]

Those biscuits are made in Italy, so they are filled with Italian Nutella. Many think that’s a better version than the Nutella sold in the states!

[@johncasale466]

I felt sooooo proud as an American when I saw the look on Eva’s face when she tasted chocolate chip cookies!!!

[@caseyhayes4590]

Yes, she doesn't just indiscriminately dislike American food which is a lot of the fun of this channel. She loves it when it deserves it.

[@cindylehman4818]

Nutter butter wafer cookies are my favorite. So good.☺️

[@karmesindryade]

I think that Oreos are the most overrated cookies in the world. Every time I try one, I am disappointed because they taste like toasted cardboard chips glued together with some sweet and fatty substance. I think it is a good idea to split and re-assemble them just to have something to play, but Harper missed the important final step: throw all of them away, not only the redundant "naked" discs 😁

[@essaywhu]

I don’t really like them on their own but I love crushed over a bowl of vanilla ice cream. I’d say that almost no store bought cookies are actually worth eating.

[@Diabolus1978]

Definitely overrated

[@VerhoevenSimon]

I don't get the appeal either, just too suggary without any actual taste.

[@shawfamily296]

I just fell ❤ in with Eva "not one dipped in the milk ten of them soaking the milk is different" you can't go wrong with ten cookies ... lol !!!

[@AmandaSmith-su6vb]

Eva isn't wrong. Nutter Butters are the best. In college I had a dream about Nutter Butters, and the entire dream was in French (6 yrs of a language will do that I guess?)

[@8543960]

Eva should try Stella D'Oro cookies. My mother always had the "S" cookies and the anisette toast cookies. They're in most supermarkets. I also remember tins of Ameretti di Saronno cookies which I loved as a kid but they were only for special occasions. I think my mother told me that so I wouldn't eat them all on her and they were expensive.😂

[@Robin7-26]

I agree 100% about the animal crackers. They used to come in a little box with a string handle and they taste completely different than these do. A lot of packaged products have changed their recipe and the ingredients aren’t as good.

[@irishpixierose]

Eva and Harper, watching your taste tests always makes my day. My favorite, all time pre-made cookie is Ivans' Famous Spiced Wafers. They were (are?) made in Philadelphia. We lived in New Jersey and they were only available in the fall in the tri-state area. These cookies are very hard and you dip them in milk. In the fall they out sell Oreos. My other favorite was Lemon Coolers, but they no longer make them. I think they were only available in the summer. I have been looking for a recipe to make lemon coolers at home, but nothing comes close.

[@PastaGrammar]

Interesting, we'll have to keep an eye out for those!

[@chuckmalcolmjr1913]

Sam's Club used to have them in western PA also but also strangely only in fall/winter months. It may be because that's when fresh lemons mature in the eastern U.S.

[@irishpixierose]

@@chuckmalcolmjr1913 I use to be able to get the Lemon Coolers in most states on the east coast until they stopped making them. But the Lemon Coolers are no longer made. I think the company was bought and the buyer decided to discontinue them.

[@irishpixierose]

@@PastaGrammar If you have family or friends in PA or NJ they should be able to find Ivins' Famous Spice Cookies. People sell them on Amazon too, but they are over priced. They have a long shelf like.

[@kfire3169]

Girl Scout Samoa cookies are my all time favorite. Vienna Vanilla fingers and Nilla Wafers loved when I was little. Fun fact there are recipes for Nilla wafer deserts.

[@shainazion4073]

Keebler (?) Makes a store bought similar to the girl scout cookies in the supermarket.

[@chihuahuasrule1175]

I love the Samoas too!