Cigarettes

Now that smoking has become such an unpopular vice, I hesitated to include this cookie. Of course, the only similarity is in the shape.

Cigarette cookies are made by piping batter onto a pan, then rolling the baked cookie around the handle of a wooden spoon to make a cylinder. They may be left as they are or filled with butter cream or ganache. Luscious cookie, discredited name. Many thanks to my friend Ellen Baumwoll, proprietor of Bijoux Doux in Manhattan, for thi