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In Italy I learned that the twice baked cookies we call “biscotti” are actually “cantuccini” or “cantucci”. They’re sold in coffee shops, served at the end of meals at restaurants, and made with different nuts, flavorings and types of flour. It’s the type of cookie people like to put a twist on, so when Pillsbury [...]
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I don’t have a new recipe to post today because I’ve been obsessively baking a certain chocolate muffin over and over with variations; but since Thanksgiving is coming up, here are a few pie recipes I’ve been meaning to recommend. Hope you like the nifty table. Of all the pies listed, my favorites are [...]
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The Miniature Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies from yesterday were so good that I decided to try making a chocolate-hazelnut version. While the texture is not as light as the peanut butter cookies, these cookies are very tasty and make good use of Nutella. Plus, they’re cute and perfect for Halloween. To create this [...]
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Last weekend Fuzz and I dropped some cookies off at a bake sale. Because Kathryn, bake sale coordinator extraordinaire, had asked us to tag the cookies with twitter handles or URLs, I was hoping maybe someone would get back to me with a cookie review. And someone did! A few hours after dropping off the [...]
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Happy Fourth of July! I hope you’re having a good one. Ours has been really nice due to the fireworks ban, as there are no wild and tormented (or otherwise sedated) dogs running around. I didn’t miss the fireworks at all. It would have been fun to have a few sparklers, but we had …
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Ack! It just hit me that today was July 1 and that we have a long weekend. On top of that, our neighbors are throwing a holiday bash and expecting contributions. I’ll probably take dessert, but like every Fourth of July, I can’t decide what. Red, white and blue desserts just …
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If you’re on a last minute search for a St. Patrick’s Day recipe and feeling desperate, here’s tip.:Make whatever you want and put green sprinkles on it. Not a good enough tip? How about a lovely green Midori Cake. Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Cookie Madness.
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Yesterday’s Irish Cream Cake was fun, but I wanted to create a scratch version and this is what I came up. Todd and I agreed it was better than the cake mix version, and even thought it’s scratch, it’s just as easy. The ingredients list seems long, but it’s mostly basic pantry items and the cake itself is a “stir-and-bake” variation on Black Magic Cake.
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