Why does peppermint seem out of place in the summer? Yes it is a holiday flavor, but it is so cooling and refreshing, the perfect complement to chocolate on a hot summer day. That’s my story anyway. I found this recipe, sans peppermint, in Marcel Desaulniers’ Death By Chocolate Cookies. I am not a big…
Chocolate Shortbread
I have been searching for some time now for a chocolate shortbread recipe that made me happy. I mean, chocolate, shortbread, 2 of my favorite things–should be a marriage made in heaven, right? But many of them were on the dry side to me. Good example: these Carole Walter bars, which were good but not…
A New Look For Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
What is it about kids that brings out the over the top in us? Indeed, might I say, garish in us? I would not normally put 1 cup of peanut butter chips, 1 cup of chocolate chips, 1 bag of baking M&Ms and 1 bag of baking peanut butter cups into a double batch of my Sweet &…
Best Peanut Butter Blondie EVER
You know I am not a fan of proclaiming various cookies or desserts The Best Ever.But my gosh if this does not come close to the Best Peanut Butter Blondie EVER. Even if Lisa Yockelson calls it something else! (Laura’s note June 7, 2014: this recipe is so awesome I made it again, with better…
Have I Inadvertantly Bribed My Children To Enjoy Baking?: Sesame Street M&M Oat Bars
Do you sneak bites of brown sugar when baking? I always have–can’t help myself. So of course I let my kids have one small spoonful also. And I usually let them have 2-5 chocolate chips if we are baking with those. It dawns on me while Sammy and I are baking today–her first time really…
Of Birds & Cookies: Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Have you ever noticed the insane myriad of approaches to making cookies that contradict one another? Sherry Yard says if your chocolate chip cookies fail your butter was too warm/soft. Alice Medrich says chocolate chip cookies should only be made with melted butter. That NY Times recipe (the only one of the previous 3 to earn my…
Dreaming Of Mandelbrot & Making Brownie Biscotti
Before I forget (which I say because I already did once and am now revising this post), I have updated pictures for you. What a mud pit! I am rather terrified when I think of living without a lawn until spring with 3 large (and 1 of them geriatric) dogs. Thanks goodness we…
Espresso Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot For The Troops
Will you forgive me for sharing a recipe without pictures? A Christmas cookie recipe, no less? See, on Wednesday my mom got here and we frantically started packing the house. She left on Thursday, and I spent Thursday and Friday baking what felt like a billion cookies, for a cookie swap and for a soldier…
The Theme Of The Moment: Stress & Peppermint
It suddenly feels like finding a spare moment to do anything, much less post to this blog, is not to be had. Certainly not take pictures in daylight, as these photos can attest. In light of that, this will be short, but sweet. Very sweet, rich, chocolatey and full of minty goodness. Smooth and slightly…
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