Spicy Ginger Cookies

Baked by a Franciscan friar with a taste for the sweet life

by BROTHER ANDREW CORRIENTE Indiana, Pennsylvania

I CONFESS, I HAVE a real sweet tooth. I grew up in California, where my parents settled after emigrating from the Philippines. My favorite Filipino dessert was anything made with ube, the sweet purple yam used in cakes, jams and shaved iced desserts, but I didn’t think my mom’s chocolate chip cookies could be beat. I was wrong. Enrolled as an NYU film student in 2006—at the height of foodie culture—I frequented a bakery known for its unrivaled chocolate chip cookie, a food truck with molten lava cake topped with sea salt, plus every sweet shop in between. I also went to church on Sundays. You see, I wasn’t only in search of New York’s best desserts. I was also trying to find myself. I landed a job at a Los Angeles…

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The Joys Of Christmas (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021

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