Team Chocolate, Team Shortbread

I know that there are at least two different markets out there. There is Team Chocolate of which my friend Marina is a steadfast believer. Then there is Team Shortbread and other non-chocolates of which Lou is a steadfast believer. In fact, yesterday, after a huge 1/3 lb burger, Lou managed to eat 2 Jammie Circles (my new name for them) with a cup of coffee. The coffee was to make sure his heart kept beating after ingesting all that artery clogging goodness. Then he parked himself on the couch for 4 hours, digesting, his heart rate slowing down, his pulse crawled to a meander, and his brain functions low enough to appreciate the humor of Red Dwarf. Oh Lou. The shortbread <3 you too.

Back to Team Chocolate. I want some feedback. I want to know whether it's the chewiness combined with the chocolate that makes it better than shortbread (in Team Chocolate's mind). Is it the fact that it has a cake-like texture but in a denser cookie-form? As much as I like cakes, there is an upper limit to the airy, lighter texture. After too much, it just gets dry. I like something with many small holes, not too much rise, yet still moist and crumbly. I want to make that sort of chocolate cookie. Brownies are too dense and moist and simple. And too sweet. But the crust of the brownie is correct. Something that resists the teeth just a little. However the interior of my next cookie will have a cake-like interior. If it goes well, I will call it Chocolate Clouds. If it doesn't go well, I will name it Piece of Horse!

My parents are getting a new oven. A gorgeous Maytag single oven, 5-burner beauty (with Sabbath mode) with an oven capacity of 5.6 cubic feet. Two power burners at 17,000 btu and 12,500 btu. Cooking will be so much fun again. So far, my little atomic range is working well, but my space is so small that if anything burns or smell funny, it lingers forever. I look forward to making salted caramels again.

My next baking project (with my 1 lb block of grade AA butter) is to make real fake jammie dodgers. Except I cannot call them jammie dodgers unless I want to be sued past next Sunday. Thus the search has started for a new name. This cookie will consist of two shortbread biscuits with apricot jam in between. The top cookie will have cutouts of various spring shapes. On a rectangular biscuit. I wish I could say that the rectangular biscuit was a creative choice but the truth is I do not have large cookie cutters.

Give me a name!