Cookies 'n Cream Polvoron - Eating Your Words 2010 Edition

In the couple of years that I have been blogging this is the first time I'm participating in an online competition. I figured, start with a relatively simple one before delving into more complex gastronomy challenges.

Eating Your Words was pioneered by Tangled Noodle and Savour the Thyme. The object was to " 'Write, spell or draw' using food or drink, and create a blog post about it." Sounds easy enough?

Polvoron, I thought, was the perfect dish to create edible art. It seemed malleable enough to be moulded into letters to put together a catchy phrase or a witty quote.

How wrong was I?!?!?!?!?! My confidence was shot down from the letter "A"...

The photos, with the words "Eat Me", were the result of my feeble attempts to be artistic with my food. Rather than a congenial invitation, "Eat Me" seemed more like a threat to the diner!

Luckily, my Filipino "cookies 'n cream shortbread" was most definitely edible albeit barely readable! The straightforward recipe, a variation to my wife's basic polvoron, is also in stark contrast with the difficulty of using it to write!

One thing is for sure! I'll never look at this challenge the same way again...

Cookies 'n Cream Polvoron

4 cups plain flour

1 cup powdered milk

1 1/2 cups sugar

250g butter

2 x 150g packets of Oreos crushes (as fine or as coarse as you like)

1. Toast the flour in a pan until it starts to turn light brown.

2. Sift the toasted flour, milk and sugar in a large bowl.

3. Add the butter and make sure they're blended well together.

4. Add the crushed Oreos and mix well.

5. Use a polvoron mould to shape the mixture into traditional shapes.

6. Wrap the polvoron pieces in cello wrap.