My friend discovered the cookies in Vancouver, British Columbia while on bvacation/b. I want to travel there just to have these cookies. The creater Thomas Haas has allowed this extremely popular recipe to be published and it is everywhere ... Acc ording to the website, "Thomas is a fourth generation pastry chef who grew up in his family's pastry shop in the Black Forest village of bAichhalden/b, Germany. His great-grandfather opened the Café Conditorei Haas in 1918 and since ...