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Today’s delightfully retro recipe is from Best of the Bake-Off, Pillsbury’s Best 1,000 Recipes, a book of classics from which many a modern version has evolved. If your mother or grandmother remembers a recipe from the ’50s, chances are the original is here. This particular recipe had been on my radar for a …
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Delta Airlines made the Biscoff cookies famous; or at least in my mind. I remember flying somewhere on Delta and being served this really good cookie. At the time, I wasn’t as obsessed with cookies and forgot the name, but luckily others were more astute and I began to see the name “Biscoff” referenced as [...]
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It’s mid-afternoon here and I keep waiting for the kid below me to turn on stereo – the one with extra bass which plays thumpy, dark, ominous music designed as as background for nefarious activities. But hey, no music! We’ve moved. There’s construction noise outside the window, but it’s muted and pleasant …
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Here’s a recipe you don’t see every day. That is, unless you happen to be the webmaster for the Heinz Ketchup recipe database, in which case you might not be surprised to see ketchup added to peanut butter cookies. And what would those cookie taste like? To get some unbiased opinions, I took the cookies to [...]
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Last week I bought some glucose to use in a recipe I saw on Martha Stewart’s website — Blueberries and Cream Cookies. Glucose was not something I’d expected to see in a Martha Stewart recipe, but her guest that day was a pastry chef at New York City’s “Milk Bar” where they make a variety [...]
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Last summer we went to New York where I made a special trip to Milk Bar to try some of their famous cookies. Out of the three I bought — Compost, Peanut butter and Cornflake Cookies, my favorite was the Compost Cookie which by now you probably know includes potato chips, pretzels and coffee grounds. [...]
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Today’s recipe is from Gesine Bullock-Prado’s book Confections of a Closet Master Baker. It’s a yellow cake so light people might mistake it for a donut – especially if you use fresh nutmeg. Gesine named these “Golden Eggs” because she bakes the batter in egg shaped molds, but if you don’t have those, you can [...]
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