Gingersnaps

I love crunchy ginger cookies but tend to jump from recipe to recipe and half the new recipes I try end up being chewy. Today, rather than focus on a new ginger cookie, I decided to try one of my old favorites but with a few changes. My favorite gingersnap recipe is based on “English [...]
Published on October 12, 2011

I spent most of yesterday preparing for today’s bake sale, and in the process invented a new cookie! This recipe was designed to use up leftover cream cheese filling from my Ultimate Black Bottom Cupcakes. It’s a soft, semi-cakey (but dense) ginger cookie with a swirl of cheesecake mixture in the center. The original …
Published on April 2, 2011

Triple Ginger Cookies
Published on December 18, 2010

I was craving ginger but needed a little chocolate fix. We didn’t have a lot of ingredients on hand, so I decided to make a quick batch of gingersnaps with a twist — chocolate chips. It’s not a groundbreaking twist, to be sure. But usually chocolate ginger cookies are soft and chewy and I wanted [...]
Published on August 31, 2009

This has been a weird week, so TGIF y’all. TGIF. To celebrate the week’s end, I made something simple so I can spend the rest of the day running errands and hanging out at the used bookstore with my favorite kinds of cookbooks. Here’s your cookie. It’s not exciting, but I thought I’d let you [...]
Published on June 26, 2009

Today’s recipe is from Kristin, who fell in love with these cookies at the Four Seasons Teddy Bear Christmas Tea, and had the chutzpah guts to ask Naomi Gallego, the Four Seasons Pastry Chef, for the recipe. I made a half batch today, and as I read the ingredient list I was a little surprised [...]
Published on December 17, 2008

I was so busy complaining about peach pie yesterday that I forgot to say this: Happy Birthday Maida Heatter! In honor of Maida’s (belated) birthday, I am going to order one of her books off Amazon and bake a batch of Maida inspired cookies. In her Great Cookies book, Maida has quite a few recipes [...]
Published on September 8, 2008

Okay! Enough puppy photos and memes. Here’s today’s first cookie recipe. I made half a batch of these for Fuzz and her friends, then they yelled at me for taking the cookies outside to photograph. “We don’t like ants in our cookies!” Well, I don’t either, so I took the photograph …
Published on June 27, 2008