Put on a serving plate and dust with sifted icing sugar. Pipe the buttercream icing onto the remaining biscuits and sandwich with the jam. Spoon a little jam onto the flat side of 16 of the biscuits and place jam-side up on the cooling rack. Put the jam in a bowl and stir until smooth. Spoon into a clean piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle. Add the vanilla extract and beat with a wooden spoon or an electric whisk until very light and smooth. Repeat with the remaining dough to make 32-36 biscuits.įor the filling, put the butter in a bowl and sift the icing sugar on top. Cool on the baking tray for five minutes then transfer to a cooling rack. Pipe 16-18 x 6cm/2½in rosettes of the dough, spacing well apart.īake in the centre of the oven for 13-15 minutes or until pale golden-brown and firm. We hope that every bite you take adds a little extra sweetness to your day. Spoon the dough into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle. Product Description Add Uncommon Sweetness To Your Day here at Keebler, we bake our cookies with care, passion and an abundance of quality ingredients-so that they are Uncommonly Made. You may need to scrape the mixture down a couple of times with a rubber spatula. Put the butter, icing sugar, plain flour, cornflour and vanilla extract in a food processor and blend until smooth. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper. If I were a Kraft employee, I would have just made a big bonus for realizing that we could just have one production line instead of two for the both â€œregularâ€ and vending size Chips Ahoyâ€¦ just packaged differently.Preheat the oven to 190C/170C (fan)/Gas 5. Soâ€¦ the Chips Ahoy cookie is just one downsize away from being the same size as the vending machine version. The current-day Chips Ahoy cookie has become a pathetic, pale, wimpy version of its former self.Īlso, every time one of these companies tries to explain the pusification of their product with some BS slogan (that probably took a team of employees 3 days in a conference room to come up with) on the container like “Improved stay fresh packaging” it just reinforces my belief the Kraft takes its potential customers for a collective group idiots, which their consumer studies may actually prove to be the case! I’ve been eating these since I was about 25 (I’m now 56). And they did something fairly common when a product gets downsized, they printed a banner in the upper right hand corner of the package proclaiming “New Look”, which certainly can distract shoppers from checking the net weight statement.Īs always, these examples of downsizing point out the clever ways that manufacturers can pass on a sneaky price increase with many shoppers not even noticing. In this case, almost two ounces has been lopped off the Vienna Fingers package. This is on top of their 2009 downsizing when each tissue shrank by a fraction of an inch. There are now ten fewer tissues in each Kleenex box. You now get over 10% less in each bottle of Dawn dishwashing liquid.

When MrConsumer saw a Nabisco representative in a supermarket and pointed out the downsizing, she cleverly responded, “Look at it this way, you are saving calories!” This reduction of close to an ounce and half means you get two fewer cookies in each package.

A new wave of downsizing has been hitting supermarket shelves over the past several months with everything from cookies to detergent packages shrinking in size.

Vienna fingers cookies picture