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If all goes well, I’ll have a few different recipes today. So far, I just have one, and it happens to be something I mentioned a few months ago – Ginger Toffee Cookies, made with Bits o’ Brickle. Bits o’ Brickle is not one of my favorite ingredients because I hate things that stick …
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Sunday evening, during a retail therapy session at World Market, I found some Guittard Super Chips. It was break-through session! See, I’ve been checking World Market off and on for months looking for these chips, but the World Market near my house never had them. So now they do, and I have another chocolate chip to add [...]
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One thing I love about traveling overseas is seeing all the new products and brands specific to that country. Having only been to Mexico and England, my scope is limited, but a lot of grocery stores now have import sections and it’s making the word feel like a smaller place. For instance, our grocery store [...]
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This is from Su Good Sweets. Using Jessica’s as a guide, I measured and weighed ingredients as I went along and came up with volume amounts that are slightly different than Jessica’s. They worked for me, so I’d use them again. This is a small batch version, but should double easily if you find you [...]
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Some notes on Congo Bars. The original recipe didn’t have vanilla, so I added 1 teaspoon. It also didn’t specify what type of butter to use, and since salted was all I had left, I used that. My bars were on the salty side of good, so I recommend using unsalted. But minor issues aside, [...]
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The other day someone asked me if I thought 4 sticks of butter (1 pound) was too much for a recipe. Expecting to find the 4 sticks butter balanced out by 3 or 4 cups of flour and plenty of sugar, I took a look at the recipe, which happened to be this one – [...]
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I pulled this recipe out of my “Top Cookies” file, which has become completely disorganized and not to be trusted because all the cookies filed there aren’t really “Top”. But these sounded good and since I needed to use up the rest of a big can of roasted, salted macadamias from Costco, I made a batch this morning. [...]
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This cookie is based on a recipe from Elinor Klivan’s book “Big Fat Cookies”. And by “based” I mean it’s her recipe but I added a little extra salt and some toasted walnuts. Coming from a book called Big Fat Cookies, it’s no surprise that these cookies are quite large. The recipe below makes 15 [...]
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