Was holiday cookie baking and candy making a tradition in your childhood? It was in mine. My grandma would come to visit and she and my mom would churn out gazillions of Date Nut Pinwheels and some other dried fruit/nut cookie that I don’t remember the name of (I confess I never ate either as…
Espresso Hazelnut Lace Cookies
I am so sorry I did not get this post to you in time for Christmas cookies. I made the plain hazelnut version with my mom, sent two thirds home with her (she and my dad love these cookies) and I kept one third, figuring I would photograph them in a day or two.
Espresso Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot
The sad truth is that I have published this recipe before. The even sadder truth is that I published it without photos, and that has bothered me so much to this day that I finally could not stand it any more, and decided to re-publish it. Since I have made these cookies every single Christmas…
Be A Good Cookie! Meringue Cookie Flavors for the Holidays and Cookies for Kids’ Cancer
I had a very hard time writing this post. Striking the right tone seems important, yet it is eluding me.
Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti for the Holidays
These Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti are my favorite Christmas cookie, and a holiday family favorite as well! I make these every year, so I have updated the photos more than once. However, since my original post bemoans the fact that they are tricky to take pictures of, I have left some of the originals. And yes…
Clove Snaps: Baking With Alex for Holiday Cookie Table 2011
Words cannot express how excited I get for the Holidays. Our tree goes up over Thanksgiving break, as well as all of the Holiday decorations. The kids and I ooh and aah over all of the holiday decorations for sale in stores like Costco (what some people find crass and overly commercial I find beautiful…
Caramelized Peanut Shortbread Bars: A Review of A Baker’s Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m headed to I just got back from Eat Write Retreat this past weekend, and I meant to get this posted before I left. Life happened. For those who don’t know, it is kind of a networking workshop–I describe it this way, rather than a conference (despite having never been to one of any kind…
Ruperto’s Tender Flaky Cookies: A Great Dairy Free Cookie to Satisfy Shortbread Cravings
With apologies to my dairy free friends who also keep kosher or halal, I have to tell you that these cookies were so delicious, so sublime, that they might have replaced traditional butter-based Scottish shortbread for my favorites of this type of cookie (I will continue to make both though, because Scottish shortbread is fabulous…
Potato Chip Cookies
Each semester during parent-teacher conference week, our school’s PTG looks for volunteers to bake and cook for the teachers, who work through the evening hours. Given that cooking and baking is my kind of volunteering, I always try to make something, at least one dessert and one meal. After a few rounds of cookies for…