Be a guest cookie dipper this weekend!

Hi everyone! This is Tracey, Eelco's wife and Dutch Moon Cookies business partner. I am new to Twitter and I'm happy to see Eelco's blog here has been such a success! For my first post here, I would like to invite you to dip cookies with us this weekend, March 14th & 15th. Yes, we are bringing back our "guest dipper" opportunity. Here are some earlier photos of our customers dipping cookies:

Nelson Denis, lawyer, film maker, and former member of the New York State Assembly, takes on a new skill, dipping stroopwafels (Dutch caramel wafers) in white chocolate and coconut in the shape of a moon. (If you are interested in Nelson's film career, please check out this website and this blog. Please be advised that the blog is satire. Nelson is really
a very nice and polite guy.)

Tracey teaches Jimmy Dahroug of Long Island to dip stroopwafels in semi-sweet (dark) chocolate. Jimmy the time to schlep to our kitchen in Queens last year to learn the skill of moon-shaped cookie dipping. This year, we are renting kitchen space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and we invite you to join us this weekend, see details below.

This weekend, March 14th & 15th, we are inviting our customers to be "guest dippers." You can stop by our kitchen on the Upper West Side on West 87th Street and learn to dip Dutch Moon Cookies with our specialized equipment. You can bring home your own complimentary box of cookies that you dip, or send them to a friend. If you were ever curious to see the fine details of chocolate production, here's your opportunity!

If you are interested, please let us know when you could stop by during the day this weekend either Sunday morning or Saturday. We'll teach you everything you need to know in about an hour. Please email or call me at tracey -at- dutchmooncookies.com (replace -at- with @), or 646-251-0680.

The kitchen is easily accessible by subway and bus. We kindly request that you do not drop by without checking in with us first, because we'll need to give you a few details on kitchen safety rules before you arrive.

We may not be able to accommodate everyone who wishes to be a guest dipper, so we will schedule people as they contact us.

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A bike ride to the supermarket

There are these faint memories you think of when you wake up and you're convinced it was all a dream - not much to bother with. Or even more likely, you wake up remembering absolutely nothing.

Luck or no luck, this didn't happen to be my case. As a matter of fact it was the first thought I woke up with: how would stroopwafels and chocolate go together? (The chocoholic I am I admit it's not hard for me these kind of things.)
Taking action, I slipped out of the bed, showered, ate breakfast and stepped onto my bike a few minutes later. I decided I'd go to the Lidl, a cheap grocery store, and buy some stroopwafels and chocolate to experiment with. Tourism detail: the Lidl is situated close to the Haagse Markt, a traditional outdoor market where people from all kinds of backgrounds meet and sell their stuff. It's a pleasure to be there although it didn't turn out to be the best place to learn Dutch, Tracey found out. Whenever she tried to buy something while speaking Dutch ("Hoeveel kosten deze tomaten?") the answer was always in English, no exception. Bummer!

So back home I started experimenting, putting melted chocolate (white/dark/milk) all on one side of the stroopwafel and then letting it sit in the fridge for a few minutes. Not much later it was confirmed that the very first test was a hit ... it was a go. Probably better that I didn't know I would do this same kind of experimenting for the whole 6 months after that ...