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Last week I mentioned I was looking for the perfect M&M cookie – not just a chocolate chip cookie with M&Ms instead of chips, but a thin, chewy cookie with brown edges and lots of wrinkles on top. So far, these are my favorites. To get the right texture shortening was required. If you swap [...]
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These are crowd-pleasing muffins. They don’t have big crowns, but they’re sweet, have a cake-like texture, and most people seem to like them. Even Fuzz, who doesn’t care for blueberry muffins, thinks this recipe is pretty good. This is adapted from a Nick Malgieri recipe which he adapted from Marian Burros. …
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Here are, as my friend Homer Simpson might say, some highly sophistimicated recipes for Easter. I probably won’t make any of them, but I like knowing they’re there. Rosemary Pine Nut Cookies Koulourakia (Butter Cookie Braids) Mama Katy’s Melomakarona (Honey-Spice Cookies)
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These are fat, dense, and have a lot of flavor thanks to all the spices and toasted pecans. I think they’d be excellent with dried cranberries or raisins, but I didn’t add them to this batch. The cookies don’t spread much, so make sure you flatten them slightly as directed. I forgot …
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I was hoping to go to Central Market this morning, but got bogged down with Monday chores and couldn’t leave the house. Luckily, I had all the ingredients for making what might be the best lemon squares ever…or at least that I’ve ever made. For the original 13×9 inch pan recipe (and its source) click [...]
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I’d been meaning to make a strawberry cake for the past two years — ever since I saw a really good looking one at a gas station/bakery in La Grange, TX. It was baked in a giant sheet pan and was very tall, soft and pink. At first I thought maybe it was a box-based [...]
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