Jenny over at Picky Palate has been cooking and baking up some great stuff lately (ok, she’s always got great recipes, but I’ve been bookmarking recipes from her blog like cr-azy the last few weeks in particular). She posted this cookie recipe several weeks ago, and I baked them as soon as I got a [...]
Filed under: brownies, cookies, dessert on August 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shortbread is quickly becoming one of my favorite things to bake. It has become one of my go-to egg-free desserts. I used to think that shortbread was boring and plain and tended to skip right past most shortbread recipes. But now recipes for shortbread catch my eye. Now I can’t resist the deliciously buttery and [...]
Filed under: Tuesdays With Dorie, cookies, dessert on May 20th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Have you ever seen those studies on TV where they show tired people driving on a stunt course, and the drivers think they are fine, but then they run over stuff, don’t brake fast enough, and can’t stay on the road? (Scary indeed!) Apparently baking while sleep-deprived can have a similar effect. Let the following [...]
Filed under: coconut, cookies, dessert on March 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is adapted from a recipe in a recent Southern Living magazine. It was the idea of an oatmeal pecan cookie with a little bit of pumpkin pie spice that originally drew me to the recipe, but I changed many of the other ingredients, proportions and mixing/baking methods. I was very pleased with how they [...]
Filed under: cookies on March 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I saw this recipe in an article about Giada in the January 2007 issue of Redbook. She’s one of my favorite chefs to watch on the Food Network, and I own several of her cookbooks. Before watching her show, I had never tried Nutella, a chocolate hazelnut spread. Giada uses it in a lot of [...]
Filed under: cookies on January 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »