[Editor's note: To reach Jill Atnikov, Chief Cookie Girl, call 204 894 8556 or email her at: [email protected]]
For 17 years Jill Margolis Atnikov had a successful career as a Pharmaceutical Representative, which required a lot of travel and time away from home. After losing both parents at a young age (three years apart from each other) she decided that life was too short and she wanted to be home with her daughter Brooke and her husband Steven.She decided to make a career change and fulfill her dream of baking full time, and now she makes fresh fabulous home made cookies. Some of the recipes she uses are her mother's (Zlota Margolis, z"l), and my mother (Gail Spivak) accurately predicted that Jill's cookies would be very good because "Zlota had a lot of good recipes."
Jill , who is "Chief Cookie at Cookie Girl" (and who gets up at 5 a.m. to bake ) recently dropped off a box of her attractive cookies (8 different kinds) to the Editor's house for sampling. Jill bakes at Oscars Delicatessen as well as Kitchen Sync (both downtown).
The Winnipeg Jewish Review then obtained five impartial well trained "cookie reviewers" (i.e. the Editor's daughter and son, daughter's friend, etc) all of whom cleansed their palates between cookies with some one percent milk and began the difficult task of reviewing/ranking the cookies . ( One of the five impartial reviewers refused to itemize his favourite cookies-He tasted a few"They are all really good. Too good. Get them away from me. I don't want to keep eating them. I won't be able to stop ...I'll turn into a cookie monster).
FUNFETTI , PEANUT BUTTER CUP, CARAMILK CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES ARE RANKED AS TOP CHOICES BY WJR TEENAGE COOKIE REVIEWERS
The three teenage reviewers had a very tough time ranking their favourite cookies, given all of the scrumptious mouthwatering choices. The two female teens (age 17) both chose the Funfetti Cookie (with colourful sprinkles in it) as#1 -describing it as "Delicious", "Divine" and saying that "It Tastes Like Cake." My Teenage Son (age 16) also thought the Funfetti Cookie was "Really Good " but he ranked it as #2, preferring as his #1 favourite the "Peanut Butter Cup Cookie" ( This cookie actually has a peanut butter cup in the middle !). The girls also loved the heavenly Peanut Butter Cup Cookie, which melts in your mouth, ranking it as their #2. Our fourth reviewer (an adult) also tasted the Funfetti cookie and thought it was very moist and flavourful and agreed with its high ranking. The teenagers had devoured all the Funfetti cookies before I got a chance to have one bite of one , but I had a nibble of the Peanut Butter cup and it was delicious.
The Caramilk Chocolate Chip Cookie was also a big hit. My son ranked this creamy, ooey, gooey cookie as his #3 favourite, and the girls also gave it a big thumbs up. All agreed it was #3.