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There's No Brownie Like a Cosmic Brownie

By: MATT RODBARD

I've long been a supporter of all (well, most) things Little Debbie, the packaged snack cakes company founded in 1960 by O. D. and Ruth McKee and named after their then four-year-old grandchild, Debbie. I've typically been a Zebra Cakes and Nutty Buddy guy, and I would lay out dozens of boxes when my roommates and I threw big parties on the roof of my East Village apartment in the early 2000s. The packages of Swiss Rolls would even outnumber the cans of Sparks on ice—we knew how to throw down.

Little Debbie reentered my orbit a few weeks back, and in the best possible way, when writer Ella Quittner pitched the idea to pay tribute to the underrated Cosmic Brownies. I was unfamiliar with this product (until, of course, I ran to ShopRite and bought a box), so it was sort of this Little Debbie's debutante, with some great writing from Quittner. The recipe rules, and I hope you make it, or at least never pass the snack aisle without giving the brownie a look again.

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