These cookies, adapted from another winner in Alice Medrich’s Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich, have been every bit as much of a revelation as Scottish shortbread, another holiday cookie I came to late in life but have since adopted as my own tradition. This is actually the first time I have ever…
"Hawaiian" Wedding Cookies
Growing up, wedding cookies were always present in our Christmas cookie tins. I did not like them–I wonder if they are a taste you need to mature into, because I adore them now, while my kids in turn do not care for them. Karma–what are you going to do? Anyway, my mom uses Rose Levy…
Lemon-Vanilla Pizzelles, Take 1
Growing up, there were several cookies that graced our Christmas tins every single year without fail. Wedding cookies, decorated sugar cut-outs, date-nut pin wheels, pizzelles…. Some traditional cookies I have kept, such as the wedding cookies and painted sugar cut-outs. Some, mostly those involving dried fruits, I have left behind. I have never made pizzelles…
Mint Chocolate Thumbprints for the Holidays–or Anytime!
The minute I saw these cookies I knew I was making them. They are from yet another holiday baking magazine, and the minty chocolate definitely says festive holidays–but I could not wait, I wanted them now. So when the PTG asked for volunteers to make dinners and desserts for the teachers during the week of…
Spring Fever: Andes Mint Shortbread Sandwiches
Is anything better than the first week of springlike weather? Especially when you live north of the Mason Dixon Line? Especially, especially when you have been housebound and sick the previous month? No. I realize this is somewhat repetitive of my last post, but seriously, people, I love this time of year. Alas, it seems…
Chocolate Salami
Chocolate Salami. Say it with me, Chocolate. Salami. If your mouth is not watering you either really hate chocolate or you don’t like salami. At first I thought “Wow! Chocolate and salami! Well, if they can do bacon and chocolate, why not salami? What? It is a rolled chocolate log full of going stale bits…
Mint Chocolate Dalmatians
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…
Bizcochitos
I love saying that word. Mind you, I probably don’t say it correctly, but still, say it with me: beez-ko-chee-tos! OK and now the Spanish speakers can come and tell me what I did wrong. Why oh why when I was a know-it-all 8th grader could not some one have told me that Spanish would…
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