Cookie Crush: Rooster 14
Rooster 14 is the brain child of make up artist turnedcaterer, Nancy Portaleo. Her unique chocolate chip cookies became the most requested item on her dessert list. Word of mouth was so strong, even new clients would call up and say, "Oh, we want those cookies."
I love these cookies so much I gave boxes of them out to clients last Christmas. To reinvent a classic cookie is no small feat, so Nancy keeps her recipe under lock and key. She did allow me to watch her process, which takes place in a converted space in her basement.
After combining the ingredients with a giant mixer she uses an ice cream scoop to create her signature dome shape. The cookies have a distinctive salty-ness, which combined with the sweet is just so good! I got to try a warm one right out of the oven, which was amazing. Heating them in my microwave for about 30 secs also gives them the "out of the oven" taste.
Nancy's daughter Juno is her lucky in-house taste tester.
She now sells her cookiesonline and she is offering 20% off for one week only starting today! Or you can buy them at a few local Atlanta stores such asCandler Park Market. She is also planning to launch a "cookie truck" to sell them at local events and fairs.
Rooster 14 will send one lucky reader a gift box of aRooster dozen (14 cookies!) just leave your comment and tell me about your favorite salty-sweet combo. Contest will close at midnight on Tuesday the 24th. One comment entry per person. If you followPie on Facebook then you already have a bonus entry. The winner will be chosen viarandom.org.
all photos & content © Lara Rossignol
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 5:00AM
Reader Comments (121)
Mmmm... sweet and salty. There is probably nothing I love better than chocolate-covered salted almonds, especially if said chocolate is dark. So delicious!
The new pretzel m&ms are currently my favorite salty/sweet taste. They've been sold out around here for awhile, my fiance and I had to go to 7 different stores to find them! They're only 150 calories a pack which is a plus.
I just love to eat those chinese ready-made noodles (Yum-Yum shrimp flavour) with cashews and raisins. Everyone else says it sucks, but I just looooove this combo.
How fun! I would love to win these and give them a try--they look fabulous! My fave salty/sweet combos are:
watermelon & salt
dark chocolate & sea salt
mango with chilito en polvo :)
Thank you!
yummy! my favorite sweet & salty combo is popcorn and m&m's. oh, and chocolate covered pretzels!
i want to try these! my favorite sweet/salty combo: regular lays potato chips with brownies! yum!
Those cookies look delicious. :O
I think my favorite saltysweet combination is vanilla ice cream and potato chips. Also salted caramels. Mmmm. ;3;
pretzel rods used as a "spoon" for ice cream or chocolate frosting. Good Lord, it's fantastic!
I also like salted almonds with dark chocolate chips.
Bacon chocolate chip cookies are my favorite combo. omnomnom
I love chocolate covered pretzels for a good salty/sweet taste! Those cookies are adorable. Love the unique shape of them!
My favorite is caramel and sea salt--to die for! The new M&M pretzels are yummy too.
I have to second chocolate covered pretzels, although I also love chocolate and popcorn together when I'm at the movies and wish I could just buy chocolate covered popcorn more readily.
I love all things salty and sweet, chocolate covered pretzels, salted caramels, but most of all, I love chocolate covered bacon bars! Delicious.
Mmm...your cookies look delicious and I love their unique shape! My favorite sweet and salty snacks are white chocolate-covered pretzels and haystacks - crunchy Chinese noodles and peanuts covered in melted butterscotch chips. Yum!
Thanks for the giveaway! :)
Those cookies look so yummy!!
Bacon dipped in chocolate fondue is a favorite as well as Fleur de Sel Almond Toffee (homemade almond toffee, bittersweet chocolate, sprinkled with sea salt-- I made mounds of it for Christmas co-worker gifts and people were fighting each other for the crumbs!)
I love chocolate covered pretzels and of course, fresh hot Kettle corn. And it has to be fresh. So, any street fair or outside event I hear about, my first thought is there better be kettle corn there!
Sea Salt Carmels are pretty great, but I REALLY devour Tim Tams (from Australia) whenever I can find them
Ok, I need these cookies. My favorite sweet/salty combo of the moment is chocolate covered pretzels. The bursts of salt mixed with the chocolaty goodness is what does me in.
Ice cream with crushed pretzels and hot fudge!
Chicken fingers and fries dipped in honey mustard sauce. Preferably from Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers.
my favorite salty-sweet combo is simply chocolate covered pretzels. I like the crunch as well. These cookies are to die for and I love the Red Rooster packaging.
Dark chocolate covered roasted pecans with salted caramel.
Salty-sweet is probably the best taste invention ever. Who would have though putting peanut butter on a pretzel or chocolate drizzle on a cracker could wake everyone's tastebuds up?
I'd love to try these! *hint hint*.
Nuttella and pretzels! Yum. These cookies look so good. Hope I get to try some!
My favorite salty/sweet combo goes back to my childhood: bacon with a maple syrup glaze.
When I was a little girl, my mom worked full-time (this was back in the days when that was still a novelty). Sometimes, on weekends she would make a pancakes from scratch with a side of tasty slab bacon. Ahhh, a piece of buttery pancake and salty smoked bacon drizzled with real maple syrup = Yummy!
When I grew up and became a foodie, I wanted to find a way to recapture that flavor and make it a bit more upscale so I went to work until I hit on a way to make it work:
Mix 1/4 cup of real maple syrup (grade B if you can get it, it's darker and richer than grad A), a tablespoon of molasses and 1/8-/1-4 teaspoon of real vanilla.
Broil some thick cut bacon until it is cooked but pale and still floppy. take it out and blot any extra grease off
Brush the syrup mixture on one side of the bacon and put it under the broiler for a about a minute; slip the bacon over and brush the other side with the syrup mixture and put it back under the broiler.
Serve any remaining syrup mixture with pancakes or waffles. This bacon with pecan and/or blueberry pancakes and waffles.
My favorite salty-sweet combo is apple pie and sharp cheddar cheese.
I like chocolate-covered pretzels or almonds over vanilla ice cream...yeah that puts a smile on my face :)
i loove chocolate covered peanuts. buying a box of goobers at the movies is perfect for me. i love the small crunch and then the nutty taste of a peanut with smooth chocolate. mmhmm!!
Those look amazing!!
I love chocolate covered pretzels.