Pimp That Snack

Monster Canadian Maple Creme Cookie

by Andy McMullen 13 photos Rated 87% 464 votes when voting closed

Just in time for our Canada Day BBQ

After browsing this site for a while, we noticed that there weren’t very many Canadian entries. With Canada Day coming up, we thought what a better time to start a pimp. We wanted to submit something distinctly Canadian, so after a bit of thought, we came up with a GIANT maple cookie. What says Canadian more than Maple leafs, and Maple syrup…..well aside from beer……We’ll see if we can’t slip a bit of that in there somewhere too!

Total cost: About $10 Canadian – includes $2 worth of original maple crèmes – for quality control purposes of course!

The bag of no name maple leaf creme sandwich cookies that inspired the build

A hand-drawn maple leaf outline on paper beside a small scaled version, on a baking tray

Ingredients
Cookie
1cup Margarine
3/4cup Brown Sugar
1/2cup Maple Syrup
2 Eggs
2tsp Cream of Tartar
1tsp Baking Soda
3/4ts Salt
Icing (not shown)
4cup Icing Sugar
1tbsp Butter
1/8tsp salt
1/2tsp vanilla
1/2cup Brown Sugar
1/2cup Maple Syrup

Maple syrup, eggs, butter, flour, baking soda and the cookie packet arranged around the mixer

Cookie

1 – Carefully blend all the ingredients to a large bowl, or as I did, just chuck them all in and mix.

Butter, brown sugar, syrup and eggs dropped into the mixer bowl before creaming

2 – Once the ingredients are mixed, shape into a ball . Next add a silly face…..This part is crucial, or the cookie will not turn out. (cover dough with plastic wrap, and refrigerate 1hr)

A ball of dough with eyes and a smiling mouth poked into it, on an orange board

3 – Next we separated the dough in two, and then rolled out each half until they fit our highly technical super duper accurate, one of a kind precision template.

Rolling the dough out flat on a floured wooden worktop with a wooden rolling pin

4 – Next, with the precision of a highly trained surgeon… well, at least a marginally good one. We cut along our precision template to get the general shape of the cookie.

Cutting round the paper leaf template laid on the rolled dough with a craft knife

5 – The next step is to create the veins for the leaf….. To make the veins, you need a highly technical vein making machine, made by small elves living in the barren wastes of the Canadian north. Since we had neither the time to travel and get one, nor the amount of beer needed to purchase one, we fell back to plan B. Rolling them out by hand.

The cut leaf on a baking tray with dough veins laid on, small cookie below for size

6 – Cook your newly made cookie in an oven heated to 350 degrees until you receive a sign from the gods that it is done, or until it’s nicely browned (about 20-25min). Repeat for the other side of the cookie.

Icing

1 – Beat all ingredients.

2 – Once the ingredients are sufficiently subdued, add them to a bowl, and mix until nice and firm.

Pale creme filling beaten smooth in a metal bowl with a green spatula

3 – Spread icing on the back end of one of the cookies (hee hee… Back End). Next sandwich the two cookies together, et voila! Or pretty good, eh?

Spreading the creme filling over the baked leaf biscuit on a round metal tray

The top leaf biscuit set onto the filling, creme squeezing out around the edges

4 – Not quite time to eat just yet!

Here you can see a cross section of the original cookie vs. our Pimped out one. All ready to be eaten. As you can see in the background we’re all set for our celebration!

The cookie quartered to show its thick creme layer, four beer bottles behind for scale

The finished maple leaf cookie on a tray with the original shop-bought one below it

Our Pimped out cookie is 4 times taller, longer and thicker. Its size is equivalent to 96 regular cookies!

Our version has approximately 7200 calories, and 288grams of fat!

Does Pimp that snack help out with dental bills???
(Answer: No)

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