Cookies

One thing I noticed while making batches of cookie bark is that baking at a low temperature for a longer amount of time almost always results in an evenly cooked and very crisp product. Recently, I’ve been applying this to some of my miniature cookie recipes. I’ve always loved teeny tiny cookies, but prefer them [...]
Published on January 24, 2013

This is the type of day where I most definitely should not have sweet and salty treats in the house, but I couldn’t resist! These Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookie were at the top of the Epicurious popularity box, and given the photo and reviews, I had to bake them. Plus I was interested in [...]
Published on January 17, 2013

The Easy Chocolate Caramel Bars were great, but I wanted to try a second version a little more like the Sheila’s Dream Bars we sometimes buy at Pot Belly Sandwich Shop. Those bars don’t contain oats, and I read somewhere that the caramel in the middle is the kind used for candy apples. There are [...]
Published on January 12, 2013

I couldn’t decide whether to call these “quick” or “easy” but settled on “easy” because even though you can throw these together in a matter of minutes (no mixer required!), they take a while to cool. These are bar cookies with a shortbread/oatmeal base surrounding a center layer of melted caramel filled Ghiradelli chocolate squares. [...]
Published on January 12, 2013

My grocery store recently moved the unprocessed wheat bran from the bulk section to the cereal aisle. The downside is it’s now in a box, so it costs a little more. The upside is that the box, which happens to be Hodgson Mill brand, has a bunch of good recipes on the back. This is [...]
Published on January 6, 2013

If you like peanut butter cookies but find the traditional criss-cross recipes to be a little dry, here’s a recipe that might win you over. Like the million dollar Bake-Off “Double Delight Cookies made with refrigerated peanut butter dough and filled with peanut butter, this version is similar, but made with a scratch dough containing [...]
Published on January 3, 2013

If you’re not tired of cookies yet (I’m not even close, unfortunately), here’s another recipe for you. It doesn’t quite fall into the healthy category, but with the oats and wheat germ, you could do worse. Plus, these are really, really good! They don’t look like much, but what I liked about the cookies were [...]
Published on January 2, 2013

I’m suffering from post-holiday malaise this week, so instead of apologizing for yet another peanut butter cookie, I’m just going to say that peanut butter was exactly was exactly what the doctor ordered (even though I do have too many peanut butter cookies here) and that this cookie is special. Or at least I think [...]
Published on December 28, 2012