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Recent Posts Tagged With 'cookies'

Mar 25

Chocolate Mint Cookies

I am a sucker for anything mint. Especially anything that combines mint and chocolate. Something about the refreshing flavor of the mint makes me feel like a dessert is light even though I know that in reality there is nothing light about it. While (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, gluten-free, mint, non-gebrotz, Passover, soy-free

Mar 25

Chocolate Mint Cookies

I am a sucker for anything mint. Especially anything that combines mint and chocolate. Something about the refreshing flavor of the mint makes me feel like a dessert is light even though I know that in reality there is nothing light about it. While (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, gluten-free, mint, non-gebrotz, Passover, soy-free

Mar 16

Lemon Meringues

Until recently I never really understood meringues. The ones I had encountered just tasted sweet and crunchy without a lot of flavor. Why would I choose that when there was a perfectly good chocolate chip cookie sitting next to it on the cookie plat (read full article)

cookies, gluten-free, lemon, Meringue, non-gebrotz, Passover, soy-free

Mar 16

Lemon Meringues

Until recently I never really understood meringues. The ones I had encountered just tasted sweet and crunchy without a lot of flavor. Why would I choose that when there was a perfectly good chocolate chip cookie sitting next to it on the cookie plat (read full article)

cookies, gluten-free, lemon, Meringue, non-gebrotz, Passover, soy-free

Feb 24

Cranberry and White Chocolate Hamentashen

The fall of my senior year of college my roommate went to a New England Cranberry festival and returned with a ten pound crate of cranberries. We, of course, took one look at that huge crate, decided it was not enough, and ordered two more. Then we (read full article)

cookies, hamentashen, Holidays, soy-free

Feb 24

More Non-Traditional Hamentashen

The fall of my senior year of college my roommate went to a New England Cranberry festival and returned with a ten pound crate of cranberries. We of course too one look at that huge crate, decided it was not enough, and ordered two more. Then we spen (read full article)

cookies, Holidays, soy-free

Feb 22

Chocolate and Peanut Butter: Not Your Bubbe’s Hamentashen

Although in my family we are partial to the traditional flavors of hamentashen (we all love poppyseed) I can’t help but play around with new fillings every year. Not everyone is thrilled to get only poppyseed hamentashen in their Mishloach Mano (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, Holidays, peanut butter, soy-free

Feb 22

Not Your Bubbe's Hamentashen

Although in my family we are partial to the traditional flavors of hamentashen (we all love poppyseed) I can't help but play around with new fillings every year. Not everyone is thrilled to get only poppyseed hamentashen in their Mishloach Manot and (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, Holidays, peanut butter, soy-free

Feb 05

Lemon Macadamia Nut Cookies

There is nothing like reorganizing the pantry to set me going in the kitchen. I have a bad habit of making shopping lists without checking the pantry first and then buying things impulsively when I am in the store. That is why in the reorganizatio (read full article)

citrus, cookies, nuts

Feb 05

Tasty Lumps

There is nothing like reorganizing the pantry to set me going in the kitchen. I have a bad habit of making shopping lists without checking the pantry first and then buying things impulsively when I am in the store. That is why in the reorganization I (read full article)

cookies, nuts

Jan 29

Tu B'Shevat Cookies

Saturday is Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish holiday celebrating the New Year of the trees. As a kid growing up in Northern California we always held our Tu B'shevat seder outside on the grass and then planted new trees in the back yard. The first bulbs of sp (read full article)

cookies, Holidays

Jan 29

Tu B’Shevat Cookies

Saturday is Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish holiday celebrating the New Year of the trees. As a kid growing up in Northern California we always held our Tu B’shevat seder outside on the grass and then planted new trees in the back yard. The firs (read full article)

cookies, Holidays, nuts, soy-free

Jan 27

Nanaimo Bars: My First Daring Bakers Challenge

I am very excited to have joined the Daring Bakers. I have been reading many of their wonderful blogs for quite a while now and I am so happy to be joining in on the fun. In honor of the upcoming winter olympics in Canada this month’s challeng (read full article)

Bar cookies, cookies, daring bakers

Jan 21

Snickerdoodles, the forgotten cookie

Snickerdoodles are a cookie that I often, regretfully, forget about when deciding on a cookie to make. (chocolate and peanut butter are usually the major players in this house). Before this week it had been ages since I had them. When a friend a (read full article)

cookies

Dec 23

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles

There are times when a dessert should be elegant. There are other times where it should be fun. For times when it should be both, these brilliant cookie dough truffles from Baked Perfection are the perfect solution. Elegant enough to sit on a cookie (read full article)

Candy, cookies, soy-free, Vegan

Dec 18

Chanukkah Sugar Cookies

Although I am someone who loves baking all kinds of cookies, I rarely bake decorated sugar cookies. In fact, before this week, the last time I made decorated sugar cookies was for my childbirth class reunion when my son was 6 weeks old. A crazy under (read full article)

cookies, Holidays

Oct 28

SoHo Globs

In my ongoing effort to bake more from recipes I have collected, rather than always seeking out new ones, I decided the time had finally come to make these cookies. I needed something sweet and chocolatey to take to a friend and these seemed like the (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, soy-free

Jun 18

Great-Grandma's Pecan Crescents

When I plan a dessert I often turn to the internet for new recipe ideas and then go from there. I am always filing away new recipes I want to try, but I never get to them because I keep finding more. This week, when looking for inspiration, I turned (read full article)

cookies, nuts, Vegan

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