Larry got a couple of decent photos of these cookies immediately after I put them together, but I decided to show a later image so I don’t have to describe the horrors that are happening in my kitchen right now. Despite my love of all things caramel, alfajores aren’t my favorite cookie. It’s the sandwich [...]
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This is the second time I’ve made black & white cookies. The only commercial version I’ve ever had are the ones from William Greenberg Desserts in NYC, so I don’t have a large body of knowledge to draw from when it comes to rating how these cookies stack up. Ironically, despite my lack of black [...]
These cute little sandwich cookies use the same sweet filling as the Salt-N-Pepper Sandwich Cookies. Funny, I liked the filling with those cookies, but I thought it was a tad too sweet with these. The cookies are simple to make, and have a surprise ingredient – malted milk powder. It makes them strangely good and [...]
Black and white cookies aren’t something we see on the West coast. I’ve only had them in New York, and only at William Greenberg desserts – so that’s my only point of reference. Now that I think of it, I don’t understand why there aren’t black and whites at bakeries here in California. It’s not [...]
My Best of 2012 list was long and difficult to narrow down. Larry and I had a spirited discussion about what made the cut and what didn’t. At the end, we were left with eleven items that needed to be on our final favorites list. There was a lot of good food last year, though. [...]
Shortbread are probably one of my favorite cookies ever. In its simplest form, it’s buttery and absolutely delicious. But it also takes well to modifications, both savory and sweet. Herbs work well, and so does infusing the dough with tea (I like earl grey). Cinnamon and other spices, especially nutmeg, pair perfectly. This version is [...]
To say that I wasn’t looking forward to making these cookies would be an understatement. Peanut butter, bleh. And uncooked? It just didn’t sound good to me at all. Thanks to Baked Sunday Mornings, I set out to tackle another recipe that I probably would have never tried in the first place. The cookies aren’t [...]
These are pretty little cookies, kind of between a classic gingernsnap and a ginger molasses cookie. There’s molasses in the batter – and rum! – but the spice is very subtle. The dough is very soft and a little tricky to roll out. A professional baker recently told me that their secret to thick, chewy [...]
We had a few friends over for Friday night cocktails, and I needed a simple something sweet to serve along with the appetizers. Cookies are a good way to go for a casual gathering – people can eat as many as they want, when they feel like it, and they’re not as high-maintenance as something [...]
I made these cookies for the volunteers for the Sunnyvale Centennial. And they loved them. These are a fairly standard peanut butter cookie, but there’s an upgrade: milk chocolate chunks, which make these taste a little bit like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in cookie form. The recipe says to use good milk chocolate (I [...]
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