Cookies

Christmas Cookies? Swedish Shortbread Cookies!

Christmas Cookies? Swedish Shortbread Cookies!

Here is a great cookie for your Christmas cookie tray. It is a delicate Swedish Shortbread Cookie. Here is the link: Swedish Shortbread Cookies.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Best cookies in Los Angeles! Three years in a row! That’s what the cookbook author says about these cookies and we can’t disagree. This recipe is from Rose Wilde’s cookbook Bread and Roses. The cookbook is available through your local bookstore and from Amazon here. Here…

Lemon Curl Cookies

Lemon Curl Cookies

Christmas cookies! Who doesn’t love Christmas cookies? The New York Times is running its annual Christmas Cookie extravaganza and one of their star cooks, Yewande Komolafe, offered up these Lemon Butter Curls. They are wonderful–lemon wonderfulness to be precise along with a very crisp, short…

Oatmeal Brown Butter Cookies and The Maillard Reaction

Oatmeal Brown Butter Cookies and The Maillard Reaction

Cookies never get old.  These Oatmeal Brown Sugar Cookies are a delight worth adding to your repertoire of cookie recipes. This recipe is from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Cookbook Shelf Love. The cookie is called Verena’s Road Trip Cookie in the book.  It is a…

A Belated Happy Nowruz: Persian Walnut Cookies

A Belated Happy Nowruz: Persian Walnut Cookies

So many interesting holidays. So little time. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, was celebrated on March 21, the Spring Equinox. With spring just “springing” here in Southern California, this is a belated nod to that celebration. Nowruz has been celebrated for more than 3000 years.…

THE Cookie: Lemon Meltaways

THE Cookie: Lemon Meltaways

This is THE cookie of the season as far as we are concerned. (Juliet and I did some rigorous testing. We have three extra pounds between us to prove it.) Cookies, by the way, are believed to have been a delicious invention of  bakers hundreds…

Raspberry Shortbread Bars

Raspberry Shortbread Bars

These Raspberry Shortbread Bars are sublime! The shortbread melts in your mouth and the raspberry jam is, well, raspberry jam.  This recipe comes from Joanne Chang’s cookbook, Flour. You can buy the cookbook at your local bookstore or on Amazon here. Chang is also the author…

America Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Chocolate-Chip Cookies: Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Cookies With a Middle-Eastern Twist

America Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Chocolate-Chip Cookies: Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Cookies With a Middle-Eastern Twist

Every place in the world deserves a good chocolate chip cookie. Am I right? These Chocolate Chip Cookies With Ras el Hanout are right out of the Middle East. The recipe comes from New York Times Food Writer Nargisse Benkabbou and can be found on…

Vanilla Bliss! Vanilla Raspberry Cake Bars

Vanilla Bliss! Vanilla Raspberry Cake Bars

This is a beautiful little cake cookie whatever–delicious, white chocolatey, and just a wee bit cookie textured. This recipe is an adapted version of the Lemon Vanilla Dream Bars recipe from the great little book Pure Vanilla by Shauna Sever (Amazon).  You will find recipe…

More Cookies:  Peanut Butter-Miso Cookies

More Cookies: Peanut Butter-Miso Cookies

In the world of binges, a cookie binge isn’t such a bad thing.  So…here is another cookie recipe close on the heels of the oatmeal cookie recipe (here) posted a couple of weeks ago. That oatmeal cookie comes together with a mix of  traditional ingredients.…