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Chocolate covered strawberries are all the rage right now in Austin, so in honor of that (and Valentine’s Day), I decided to make a bar cookie with a chocolate covered strawberry theme. Adapted from a cherry variation called “Chewy Cherry Bars”, this version uses good quality strawberry preserves and dark chocolate chips. Like …
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I’ve you’ve been invited to a cookie exchange and don’t know what to take or if you just need a bar cookie for holiday gatherings, here’s a suggestion. The crust is made of flour, coconut and nuts and the filling is a combination of your favorite preserves plus a thin layer of cheesecake. For this [...]
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Thanks for all the comments on the giveaway! Would it be weird if I emailed people for recipes? Yes, probably. Anyhow, speaking of recipes, I have a good one today. It’s a new cookie from Better Homes and Gardens with kind of a healthy slant to it. It’s a whole wheat bar cookie with a [...]
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Next time you have half a can of condensed milk to use up, consider this recipe. I tried it yesterday, and while the granola bars were not my personal favorite, they weren’t awful. They taste better today, plus close to 462 people thought they were really swell. It’s probably just me, but I thought the [...]
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I felt like making a big old pineapple cake this weekend, but given the heat and the fact we don’t have anyone around to help us eat a giant cake, I decided to go with these super easy bars made with crushed pineapple. Unlike my usual go-to pineapple desserts Millionaire Pie and Banana Split …
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I apologize if this recipe seems more suited for fall, but I’ve been looking for ways to use the blueberries that are showing up in all our grocery stores. They’re great straight, but I was in the mood for ginger and thought I might try combining the two flavors again. The result was …
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Today’s cookie was inspired by a candy bar introduced in the 1920s called Oh Henry! Made with peanuts, caramel and fudge, some say Oh Henry! was named for a boy who frequented the Williams Candy factory in Chicago, where the bar was invented. Nobody really knows, but claims that it was named …
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I’ve always been a little uptight about Seven Layer Bars, the cookies where you melt the butter directly in the pan, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over the butter, pour milk directly over the crumbs, etc. etc. I love the concept but always worry I’ll burn the butter (because one time I did) and that …
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