WATERVILLE — Allyson Harris is so confident about her cookie recipe that she calls it the Best Chocolate
Chip Cookies in Existence.
“I’ve tried about two dozen chocolate chip cookie recipes and these are the best,” said Harris, who works
at Bowling Green State University. “The outside’s crunchy and the inside stays chewy.”
She said there are several reasons why the cookie tastes so good.
There is more brown sugar in them, than white. The cornstarch may contribute, as well as the cream
cheese.
Harris found the recipe on a You-Tube site. The woman who initially made them goes through the process of
tweaking the recipe on a video.
“There’s a science behind it,” she said.
Harris uses the base and creates other cookies with it. Ingredients that she’s added include Andes mints
and nuts.
“I’ve actually substituted some of the flour for cocoa powder,” making it more chocolatey.
She’s sharing another recipe that is also pretty doggone good: Sweet Potato Dog Cookies.
“That’s my own recipe.”
Harris gets plenty of feedback on the biscuits from her three pets.
Her menagerie includes rescued greyhound Brody, tiny mixed-breed Jenna and Oz the cat, who’s been with
Harris since college.
Has she been a taste-tester of the canine cookie?
“I have. They don’t taste like much of anything.”
Harris initially made the dog cookies when Brody was suffering from a gastrointestinal problem. She
thought if she made his treats instead of buying them, his stomach would feel better — turns out he was
eating his bed.
“I like knowing what goes into his food,” she added.
Harris has also been known to whip up a batches of both recipes for her fellow board members of North
Coast Greyhound Connection and the dogs.
She said Greyhounds are surprisingly easy to care for, despite their size.
“They’re so chill. They’re such chill dogs. People think they’re hyper but they’re not. They’re so
personable and they love to cuddle.”
Brody sleeps about 18 hours a day and only needs a lap around the yard before he wants to come inside.

“Because they basically lived in a box for the first 1-4 years of their lives,” she said of Greyhounds
and track racing. “They’re relatively low energy after they retire.”
She got involved with North Coast Greyhound Connection after stopping at the group’s booth at the Roche
de Boeuf Parade and Festival in Waterville. Harris and Brody, who came from a track in Wheeling, West
Virginia, clicked immediately.
“It was love at first sight,” she said. “He’s just a big cuddle bug.”
Harris works in information technology at BGSU, heading up the department that she participated in as a
student.
Working for residence life, she would help students with computer issues. Now, 30 students work for her.

“It’s all come full circle.”
She earned her bachelor’s degree in digital art at BGSU in 2008.
Her cooking has evolved since her college days.
“I visited Japan before I started working at the university and that inspired me to try Asian foods.”
When she met future husband, Jordan, she started watching the Food Channel to experiment with more
recipes. They’ve been married four years.
Harris is from Bloomdale and graduated from Arcadia High School.