Biscotto's passions: an (almost) reasonable obsession with cookies

Biscotto may easily forget where he put his glasses or why he walked into a room, but he never, ever forgets a cookie texture, whether it was a flop or a triumph. His passion for cookies XXL borders on obsession, and honestly, nobody at the factory has ever tried to talk him out of it. The quest for the perfect gooey centre Biscotto spends hours, sometimes whole nights, fine-tuning a recipe down to the last gram. The Cookie XXL Bueno Mousseline, with its gooey hazelnut centre, was born on one of those sleepless nights when he remade the dough seven times in a row because "the gooey centre wasn't gooey enough". Today it is one of the factory's best-loved cookies, which, according to Biscotto, proves he was right to worry about nothing... or about everything, depending on the day. Raspberry, pistachio and little obsessions The Cookie XXL Framboisier Pistache is something of Biscotto's secret favourite. He talks about it like a child he is proud of: the balance between pistachio and raspberry, he says, "is the kind of thing you only get right once in a generation of ducks". This cookie has in fact become the most ordered of all, proof that his perfectionist worries often end up paying off. Tiramisu, his other great love story Cookies are not his only passion. Biscotto also harbours a deep love for tiramisu, which he makes with the same slightly anxious intensity: mascarpone weighed with pinpoint precision, coffee chosen with an almost comical seriousness for a duck who regularly loses his keys. Between two batches of Cookie Bowl, you will often find him tasting, tasting again, and tasting yet again a mascarpone cream, "just to be sure". An indulgence that soothes Deep down, for Biscotto, cooking isn't just a passion; it is also a refuge. When the worries mount or his memory fails him, he always comes back to the same reassuring gestures: weighing, mixing, smelling the butter as it melts. Cookies, for him, aren't just a job. They are what always brings him back to himself.