Think of this homemade version of cookie cereal as dessert and not breakfast, because this is NOT good for you - unless you count the milk. But it sure is delicious and fun to eat! I woke up the other day dreaming about Cookie Crisp - you know, that sugar cereal from childhood that your mom would never buy for you in a million years because ...
Better-than-Starbucks Homemade Madeleines
Learn how to make madeleines - the delicate, buttery French cakes with the iconic scallop shape. So much better than the Starbucks version! A perfect shelter-in-place baking project. There's a lot of mythology surrounding madeleines. Most famously, it was a bite of these little cakes - or are they cookies? - dipped in tea that triggered a ...
Hot Cocoa Cookies
One of my family's all-time favorite recipes, hot cocoa cookies taste like a mug of hot chocolate in cookie form. Leave some for Santa this Christmas Eve! I have probably made this recipe three times just in the past week. At this time of year, when my children want me to make cookies for a party, to give to teachers, or just to snack on, ...
Hamantaschen that Don’t Suck
Delicious, lemony, jam-filled hamantaschen for Purim! This week brings the Jewish festival of Purim, a carnival holiday where people are encouraged to dress in costume and make merry. Purim commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from an evil government minister, named Haman, who plotted to destroy the Jewish community in ancient ...
Valentine’s Day Linzer Cookies
More homemade Valentine's Day love, today in the form of a heart-shaped Linzer cookie filled with scarlet-hued raspberry jam. I'd been meaning to make this traditional Linzer cookie recipe since before Christmas, but I ran out of time amidst all the holiday craziness. Luckily, by making my cut-out design a heart, these Linzer cookies work just as ...
Malted Chocolate Chip and Reverse Chip Cookies from Marbled, Swirled & Layered
Why make regular old chocolate chip cookies when you can make dazzling, flavorful harlequin-checked Malted Chocolate Chip and Reverse Chip Cookies with only a little extra effort? Turning classic desserts into dazzling, Instagram-worthy confections with only a leetle extra effort is the theme of my friend and fellow food blogger Irvin Lin's new ...
Holiday Baking: Iced Gingersnaps
If you are looking for another cookie to add to your Christmas baking repertoire this year, let me humbly suggest that you give these iced gingersnaps a try. Imagine a spicy, slightly chewy — as long as you don’t overbake them — ginger cookie with a little extra sweetness and textural interest from a classic vanilla icing. Now, how can you say no ...
Chocolate Raspberry Rugelach
Has holiday baking season officially begun? I declare that it has. If, like me, you are planning to give edible gifts this holiday season, you have to start sooner rather than later or else your kitchen will become a round-the-clock production facility. There are countless kinds of Christmas cookies from Swedish gingersnaps to German lekuchen to ...
Deluxe Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Is there anything better than a chocolate cookie? I would argue that there is and it's a chocolate sandwich cookie stuffed with vanilla creme. Now, don't get me wrong: I love chocolate as much as anyone. Probably more than most people, in fact. But I always prefer treats that offer two flavors instead of just one. I'd rather have a cream cheese ...
Double Ginger Molasses Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
A new cookbook from baking guru Dorie Greenspan is always cause for celebration. And when that cookbook is all about cookies? Well, all I can say is preheat the oven and soften some butter. Because it is time to bake. Every year in September, National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, housewares giant OXO supports Cookies for Kids Cancer, a ...
Iced Gingersnaps
Every year at this time of year, my mother bakes dozens and dozens of Swedish gingersnaps, called pepparkakor, to give to family and friends. The recipe came from my grandmother, whose parents were Swedish, and it calls for chopped slivered almonds in the dense, spicy dough. I grew up eating these cookies by the pound as a child and they are a ...
Cookie Recipe Round-Up for National Cookie Day
Friday is National Cookie Day! And why not? It's the time of year when everyone is pulling out their favorite cookie recipes, creaming sugar and butter, chilling dough, cutting out shapes, piping icing, drizzling chocolate and filling tins. Even people who rarely bake have a favorite cookie without which their holidays would not be complete. If ...
Cookie Exchange: Key Lime Meltaways
I'm just back from our annual Thanksgiving jaunt to Florida, and of course, now that my beloved Oak Park Farmers Market is closed for the season, the only farmers market that I get to visit is the Saturday morning Third Street South Farmers Market in downtown Naples. My favorite stall at the Naples Farmers Market sells unusual varieties of citrus ...