Can you imagine dipping a pancake in a tall glass of ice cold milk? What about having a short stack of cookies ready in 10 minutes flat? A new promises just that, with a catchy name to boot: pookies! With over 15.5 million views and 400,000 likes in just two weeks, ’s Pookies smell like a winner. TKTK STATS “Kayou” is a portmanteau of the blog’s founders, Katja and Youssef, who asked to be called only by their first names, Sonny-and-Cher-style.
“We both like to cook, but also just love food,” Katja told me, “I’m the quick and efficient one, and Youssef enjoys the process and likes to bring things to perfection.” Their year-old blog has recipes riffing on snacks and dishes from all over the world with good reason; Katja is from Germany but has lived in nine different countries, and Youssef is of Moroccan and French descent. Their most popular recipes include a and several delectable variations on .
Katja has a “sweet spot” for cookies and wanted to devise a simple banana one that anyone could make. “If you tell me something takes 10-plus ingredients or 30-plus minutes, I’ll try to find a way to make it easier, have fewer ingredients, make fewer dishes dirty and do it quicker,” she says. “I’m a lazy cook in that sense.
” She tossed a banana into a blender with sugar, flour, baking powder, chocolate and an egg, so that it would be the only thing to wash. Then she shaped the thick batter into cookie shapes on a sheet of parchment and baked at 350 .
