I believe in Ted Lasso. As the main character does on the Apple TV + series, I also want someone to bring me delicious cookies at the beginning of each workday. Well, not cookies. Cookies. Every time Ted came in for “Biscuits with the Boss” – and Rebecca reacted like a hungry wolf to a new hunt – I felt it. I need it. But I don’t need to hire the nicest person in the world to coach my football / soccer team to get my hands on any. One of our favorite YouTube chefs, Andrew Rea from Binging With Babish, has a new video showing how we can do it at home.
And this is great news for Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham, as the cookies consumed during filming were not as good as they looked.
Like Ted Lasso, Andrew Rea deciphered the recipe for making delicious, crumbling shortbread cookies, the same treats that the trainer brought to his boss every morning. There is a simple, easy and short version that you can try, which would be great to do with children. It only requires salt, butter, granulated sugar and flour. But since Ted’s homemade cookies are top notch, to make something special, you’ll want to try Rea’s most complex recipe.
This involves baking with roasted sugar (my new favorite thing in the world) and golden butter. All other ingredients are standard cuisine dishes. But this batch is also covered with demerara sugar, for an extra delicious taste.
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As much as we want to eat it – every day – the person who needs this recipe the most is the owner of AFC Richmond, Rebecca Welton. The cookies that Waddingham ate on the set were not good. In fact, they were terrible. She said Variety that eating them was “the best acting job of my life”. Because eating one was “literally like putting a piece of sponge in your face.”
That’s because they used what star Jason Sudeikis calls “close cookies”, which are low in sugar. This is not a great-tasting cookie. But Waddingham said it was necessary for her to “not just expand” during filming. Which is genuinely funny, because I wondered how anyone, even Rebecca, managed to eat cookies every day and still get in shape. It turns out that you really can’t. You just need to pretend you’re eating. Especially when recording multiple takes.
Maybe I’m not sure if I want someone to bring me shortbread cookies every morning. But I believe I would still like to find out.
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