Granted, this cookie was crispier than some of its made-from-wheat-flour cousins but remained relatively soft in the center. The Twenty Below cookie was the only gluten-free version in the lot, yet you wouldn’t have guessed it. She says the cookie’s magical formula contains rice flour and oat flour, as well as cornstarch and xanthan gum, which provide some of the binding agents and elasticity typically provided by gluten. Christiansen’s sister, Sophia McGraw, still works for the business, where she’s a manager on its baking team. The winning recipe actually came from Britta Christiansen, one of Twenty Below’s former bakers. “I think the fact it’s gluten-free is fairly impressive,” he said.
Co-owner Michael Moran was pleasantly surprised to learn of their first-place ranking. Quality vanilla.” And: “Good taste testers until you get it right!”Īs a gluten-free option with a gourmet twist, the Twenty Below cookie was the bracket-buster in this taste tourney. “It needs to be butter-based,” she told us while ticking off her tips for cookie mastery. It's nothing fancy, although she relies on a few sure-fire tricks to make these cookies shine. Woinarowicz runs the bakery with her husband, Travis Nelson, and daughters, Reese and Liv - “our impeccable taste testers.” The recipe is a chip off the old block - that is, it is based on her grandmother’s recipe. On an average week in store I would say (we sell) 150-200 of that flavor alone.” “We definitely sell thousands throughout the year with craft markets and street fairs. “So excited! You should’ve seen all our faces when I read your message out loud to our girls yesterday,” she texted, while at home with one of her daughters, who was sick. Jen Woinarowicz, owner of Jen’s Bakery, was thrilled to hear her chocolate chip cookie came out on top. Second place went to Breadsmith’s scone-like chocolate chip. So not too surprisingly, the top three spots were occupied by three dramatically different cookies.Īs our overworked pancreases wouldn’t permit overtime play, we wound up with a first-place tie between the more traditional Jen’s Bakery cookie and the gluten-free offering from Twenty Below Coffee.
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