Monday, February 8, 2010

Amaretti Fail

Today, Food Maven Josh B. introduced me to Italian amaretti cookies, which we found at I Preferiti di Boriana (Boriana's favorites) at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. They are mini cookies with a mild taste of marzipan and they are available soft or crispy/crunchy. Josh was also kind enough to show me how to create a nice after-dinner flourish by lighting the wrapper on fire. When lit, the tissue wrapper should shoot up like a rocket, if you follow his instructions.




See how the tissue paper shoots up into the air when it behaves.

amaretti cookies

amaretti cookies

soft amaretti cookies

3 comments:

  1. it's too bad the demo didn't work! i was at the edge of my seat.

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  2. It doesn't work any more. I've been doing this for decades but they had to have changed the wrappers so they no longer float. Others have posted about their disappointment as well.

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  3. I just tried it today and it worked! My daughter had some that did not

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