No-Bake

If you spot the new limited edition Candy Cane Oreos, you may want to buy two bags — one for eating. and another for baking. They taste much better than I imagined (like Girl Scout Thin Mints in Oreo form) and have so many potential uses in baked goods. I couldn’t decide whether to chunk [...]
Published on November 8, 2012

I was craving Scotcheroos last week, so I went to H.E.B., gathered most of the ingredients, then discovered that the store was completely out of Nestle butterscotch morsels. After being helped by a friendly employee who was sympathetic towards my predicament and offered several substitution ideas even though she’d never tasted Scotcheroos, I put all [...]
Published on August 29, 2012

Given the hot weather, I’ve come to appreciate “no-bake” cookies more than ever and have been experimenting with new recipes. Since my favorite no-bakes always seem to involve Rice Krispies, I consulted with Katrina, an expert on the subject! Between the two of us, we’ve made loads of different varieties (including Chipotle Rice Krispies Treats) [...]
Published on July 10, 2011

A few weeks ago I saw an ad for cookies made with Grape Nuts. At the time, I didn’t even like Grape Nuts, but I was so intent on trying the recipe that I forgot about my childhood Grape Nuts aversion and threw a box into the basket. Flash forward to now, where …
Published on June 4, 2011

Picking one recipe was tough because there are so many great Danish recipes. At one point our plan was to go with “Aeblekage” an simple dessert made with crumbs and applesauce, but in the end we decided to make something a little easier to divvy up between 200 Dixie cups. We are going to make “Kiksekage” or “Chocolate Biscuit Cake”, a no-bake recipe where you layer squares butter cookies in a matrix of chocolate, butter and (depending on the recipe) eggs and/or cream.
Published on February 25, 2011

Scotcheroos are one of my all-time favorite cookies, so you’d think I wouldn’t forget their name. But that’s exactly what happened this weekend when I got an email from my friend Janet with a recipe for a Rice Krispies bar made with peanut butter and corn syrup and topped with chocolate and butterscotch chips. My [...]
Published on November 10, 2009

I found this recipe 30 years ago on the back of a Golden Grahams box, and even though I was only about Fuzz’s age, I was smart enough to know that something made with dry breakfast cereal could never come close to the real thing; because If you think about it, s’mores are the perfect [...]
Published on September 19, 2009

My stepfather was Sicilian American and knew a thing or two about food. I sometimes take for granted how lucky I was to have him in my life. He would have never called himself a foodie, but he could cook anything and he would drive all over town to find the best Italian meats, cheeses [...]
Published on January 20, 2009