Anna | January 24, 2006
A few weeks ago I was reading a blog by someone in California who mentioned breakfast cookies.
Shortly after hearing of breakfast cookies, what should appear on the shelves of my local grocery store but Quaker Breakfast Cookies. What took them so long?
Now I must admit, I did not take the time to [...]
Anna | January 21, 2006
The other day I found Fuzz looking at Cooking for Mr. Latte by Amanda Hesser. I think she liked the colorful drawing on the book jacket. A few days later, I found the book jacket, but the book had been removed. I went looking for the book and found it [...]
Anna | January 20, 2006
These are high on my peanut butter cookie list. They are big, fat, full of peanut & peanut butter morsel chunks, and soft.
Triple Play Peanut Butter Cookies (Adapted from KA Cookie Companion)
1 cup butter — very soft
1 cup dark brown sugar — (8oz)
1 cup sugar — (7 oz)
1 1/4 cups peanut butter — (11 7/8 [...]
Anna | January 18, 2006
This morning, I baked up some chocolate truffle cookies. The recipe is here on Recipezaar and you can also find it on page 153 of the Gourmet Cookbook.
The dough keeps well. In fact, I made it last week, and the truffle cookie dough balls have been sitting, wrapped in foil, in my refrigerator [...]
Anna | January 16, 2006
This recipe, which Fuzz loved because it had 4 eggs to crack, is from one of my favorite cookbooks “Classic Home Desserts” by Richard Sax. It’s a simple but informative book with great recipes, a friendly laid back tone, and a bit of history on some classic dessert favorites.
This particular recipe was given to Richard [...]