Mother's Circus Animal Cookies

Its sad to have a particular food addiction.

There are just some things at the grocery store I just do not buy. The reason is clear.. I cannot leave them alone until they are gone.

Mothers cookies is the Northern California bakers for frosted circle animal cookies. They are traditionally pink and white and come with sprinkles on top that are often blue. Sounds pretty awful as its written down.

There texture is pure lard. The frosting leaves a coating across the top of the palette that takes a frosty soda like beverage to break down.  Its an amazing taste combination and a textural one as well. The crispy animal shaped cookies are enigmatic of an era in the 50's long gone. As you travel through Oakland on BART just past the coliseum, the factory is let up with its characteristic almost Barbie pink circus tent details. The home of "mother's cookies." They highlight the Circus Animal Cookies on their building.  I must not be the only one that likes these!

In the grocery store these gems are sold by the bag. They are not neatly stacked within rows of plastic like other members of the Mother's cookie line. They are often sold out. A new variety of the same favorites has made an appearence on the shelves. Its a green jungle animal version. The people at Mother's were clever enough not to change the recipe... so even through they are formed in the green swinging chimpanzees, the result is the same flavor and texture as the original Circus Animals.

I have been recently informed that my addiction to these gems is not singular. My daughter has a "thing" for them too. Does it speak to us genetically?

The biggest indignity ever happened when I was looking for a new variety  ice cream to drag home. Our Raley's carries Sunnyside brand ice cream along with others. Sunnyside is their generic like set of dairy products. There in the freezer department was a "Mother's Circus Animal" flavored ice cream. It has some dough like components of pink and white. It has flecks of spinkles, which everyone knows is a flavor all to its own, and there are even a few Mother's Circus Animal Cookies thrown into the mix as whole cookies to be discovered as unexpected treasure. It is totally successful as an ice cream flavor.

So.. watch out for the Mother's Circus Animal flavors headed to a cookie counter or a ice cream freezer near you!!

:  ) Pat