At what point did pure vanilla extract in any form become a secret ingredient? I just about fell off the couch when she revealed that as her "secret".
shareI have to agree! I don't think I have many cookie recipes - and I've made more than my share of cookies - that don't have vanilla in them! Bad choice for the "secret" ingredient!
Yeah....that was pretty silly. They should have chosen anything other than that....except for flour or sugar ;)
That building is also a Starbucks?
Yes.
Is there a law?
Thought that was really strange too. Vanilla, immitation or pure, is very common in cookies anyway.
shareA basic Christmas cookie is usually a sugar cookie. The basic sugar cookie recipe does not include vanilla. Adding an unexpected ingredient, even if it is common in other types a cookies, is still different enough to call it a secret ingredient. She was also 9 when she came up with the recipe!
shareTrue, it's not a drastically different ingredient, but it's actually vanilla bean,not vanilla extract, so that is a very different substance. Also, it was not commonly seen 25 years prior to the time the movie is set, so it would have been unusual.
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At least it could have been a whole vanilla bean.
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