I love spring, and I’m so happy that it is finally here. To celebrate that, I designed a sugar cookie that’s filled with colorful spring flowers. This project is somewhat labor intensive, but it is so much fun. It would be a great project to do with your kids or with friends. Or by yourself!…
These Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies are all things fall. Pure comfort in a cookie. To me, there is nothing like a chewy cookie with a sugary, crackly exterior. I adapted this recipe from one featured in Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. This is an outstanding cookbook and it would be a great addition to your…
This recipe for Corn Shortbread Cookies came from one of my favorite cookbooks, Momofuku Milk Bar. A Cookbook by Christina Tosi. I posted another fabulous recipe from this same book here: Marshmallow Cornflake Chocolate Chip Cookies. She takes a very unconventional approach to baking and creates extraordinary flavor combinations. If you enjoy adventurous baking, I…
What could be better than an old fashioned oatmeal cookie? Maybe one that’s loaded with chocolate chips and rolled in sugar! These Sugar Coated Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are chewy, soft in the middle, and have a nice crunchy texture. I love to roll cookies in sugar before I bake them, and I have posted…
I love an old standard with a zing of something unexpected. These Strawberry Oatmeal Cookies are just that. They are really so good! Chewy and buttery with a generous hint of strawberry. I found these freeze-dried strawberries at Trader Joe’s, but most supermarkets have them as well. I’d never used freeze-dried strawberries in anything before. I…
I am not exaggerating when I say that these Chocolate Chip Cornflake Marshmallow Cookies are the best cookies I have ever eaten. It’s already a fabulous chocolate chip cookie recipe anyway. Then you add the sweet/salty crunch of a toasted cornflake mixture and gooey, melty marshmallows. They simply defy description. I discovered Christina Tosi on…
Have you ever eaten something that claims to be chocolate, but if you closed your eyes while you were eating it, you wouldn’t be able to tell? Then you would be really annoyed that you wasted calories on a completely tasteless imposter? This has happened to me many times. Not so with these cookies. When…
If the name Sweet and Salty Potato Chip Cookies sounds bizarre, I totally understand. It’s like I named the recipe during a drunken game of Mad Libs. Despite their odd combination of ingredients, they are really good. The potato chips give them an interesting crunch. It actually all started with my new book club. I thought…
Some things are just made to go together, like peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs, macaroni and cheese, and cake and ice cream. One of my favorite combinations is chocolate and espresso. Espresso greatly enhances the flavor of chocolate, and these fabulous Chocolate Espresso Crackle Cookies are the perfect example. They have a…
There is nothing like the simplicity of a shortbread cookie. I really love this brown sugar shortbread cookie recipe because brown sugar gives it a deeper, more caramel flavor than white sugar does. These delicious cookies are quick to make as well. I have made them from start to baked in less than 30 minutes….
I love Meyer lemons. They are basically a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. The Meyer lemon started out as a decorative houseplant in China and was brought to the United States by an agricultural explorer named Frank N. Meyer in the early 1900’s. They have become popular in recent years thanks to…