Cookie dough desserts at Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Rebel Restaurant
The heart wants what the heart wants, and apparently my heart wants salmonella. I have a major thing for cookie dough (in all its raw egg glory), so when I recently saw not one, but two cookie dough and ice cream desserts on restaurant menus, my heart positively burst with doughy glee.
I’m not talking cookie dough ice cream, here. No, these two lovelies are cookie dough and ice cream, each component separately lauded and fully explored on its own merit, not haphazardly blended together into a single blasé ice cream.
My first cookie dough with ice cream dessert was at Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, where I — to put it mildly — freaked the heck out when I saw the Ice Cream Sammy on the menu. Instead of a cookie, or a doughnut, or whatever other cooked baked good you may have seen as the “bread” on an ice cream sandwich, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot uses two pristine slabs of hardened, raw chocolate chip cookie dough to cradle the vanilla ice cream.
Each bite is the perfect ratio of cookie dough to ice cream, an incredibly satisfying ice cream sandwich experience.
Then I saw this resplendent combo again, this time at Rebel Restaurant.
Rebel’s dessert features two cooked brown butter shortbread cookies sandwiching an entire patty of cookie dough. Let’s say that again: an entire patty of cookie dough.
Accompanying this beautiful cookie creation is peanut butter swirl ice cream, salted chocolate ganache and whipped cream. The gratification I got from biting into the chewy dough was almost primal, the very same feeling my ancestors must have had before someone went and ruined everything by putting the dough over fire.
In case you’re wondering, no, you will not die from eating either of these desserts. Both are made with pasteurized eggs, which means that my heart’s quest for salmonella is yet to be fulfilled. can you put a price on this?): 2907 Huron St., Denver, 303-226-1540; whiskeytf.com
Rebel Restaurant’s Shortbread Cookie & Cookie Dough Sandwich ($9): 3763 Wynkoop St., Denver, 303-297-3902; rebelrestaurantdenver.