I'm Shilpa Oskokovic.

And I'm Jesse Suffolk.

We're both senior test kitchen editors at Bon Appetit.

And this is BA Bake Club.

Bake Club is Bon Appetitates Book Club, but for baking.

We're creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet.

Every month, we publish a recipe on Bon Appetit.com that introduces a baking concept that we think you should know.

Then you'll go bake, send us any questions you have, or pictures of your finished creations.

And we'll get together here on the podcast to talk about the recipe.

The November Bakel Club recipe, one big cinnamon bun, is live now on bonapit.com.

And we'll tell you a bit more about that, beautiful bun at the end of this episode.

But today, we're going to be talking about Jesse's accidentally vegan recipe. And it's all

about his very delicious olive oil chocolate chip cookie. Jesse, you are the cookie king.

Or should we say the cookie monster? A little bit of both, perhaps. You wrote the book on cookies, the definitive book on cookies. Oh, wow. Okay, okay, okay. I'm not saying that. Shilpa is, but thank you. It's a gorgeous book. It's a lovely book. I forced Jesse to sign it for me. I wrote Stay Cool, period. It's a wonderful, beautiful book, and everybody, you know, should have a copy on their bookshelf.

And, Jesse, after, you know, writing such a book of all the cookies out there,

why did you think about bringing this particular one to Bakelub?

Yes, so this cookie wasn't originally a vegan olive oil cookie, but more than later.

But, you know, I haven't made a cookie for the bake club.

I think perhaps it was time.

I should give the people what they want and do what I'm good at.

And I was finally ready to do this.

I am healed.

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