Well... that's one way to make cookies.
Rosie Grant was interning with the archives of the Congressional Cemetery in the D.C. area when one of her classes required her to create a social media account as part of a school project.
Thus her TikTok @ghostlyarchive began.
She started by documenting interesting details of the cemetery and its famous inhabitants, but later, it went viral for a very different reason.
The reason being cookies, obviously.
It started out when she posted a video of her trying out a recipe for Spritz cookies that she found on a random headstone.
"People were recommending different ways to make the cookies, so I read through all the comments to understand how to make the cookies correctly and made it again and again," she said.
Had she taken the time to google the recipe, rather than going purely off the gravestone, she would have discovered that the Spritz cookie recipe is very popular and easily accessible. In fact, it can be found literally printed on the box of the Pampered Chef Cookie Press which my mother happened to buy me at the thrift store.
(Hey, it was a great find!)
This recipe for delicious butter cookies led her to discover that having a signature recipe carved on your gravestone isn't all that unusual. So far, she's found at least a dozen of these recipes, including fudge, cheese dip, peach cobbler, and snickerdoodles.
I think she may have just stumbled across a great new party idea.
Move over cookbook parties, we're bringing graveyard recipes to share!
She's even consumed some of them graveside, which is either really sweet or really creepy, depending on how you look at it.
Her venture into gravestone cooking has sparked a lot of interesting conversations on her videos, with mostly positive feedback.
"People will comment what they would want to put on their gravestone if they had to pick a recipe, or some people say things like, ‘Oh, snickerdoodles, my mom made it this way.' And so there's just this whole nostalgic connection, which has been really cool."
Since her initial trial bake of the Spritz cookies, she has invested in a cookie press, and she says it's still her favorite of all the recipes she's tried so far.
