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  • Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies

    Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

    November 9th, 2013

    I used to think that white chocolate was destined to be stirred into a cookie batter with its exotic (and expensive) friend, the macadamia nut.  I used to think it couldn’t get any better than that for white chocolate, because after all, the White Chocolate Macadamia Nut & Lime Cookie IS monumental.  (Oh, so is the […]

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  • Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    October 12th, 2013

    Oh yes. I know you’re usually all about the Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie, and normally I wouldn’t blame you.  (Chocolate does trump pretty much anything, as a general rule of baking thumb.  Chocolate also trumps a lot of people, too, but let’s not get into that right now.)  But you know there’s a time and […]

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  • Quickie Graham Cracker Toffee Cookies

    Quickie Toffee Graham Cracker Cookies

    August 1st, 2013

    Sometimes you need a quickie to fill an urgent need.  An urgent desire. You know what I mean? I have the perfect solution to satisfy the sweets craving that overpowers you on a Wednesday night when the last thing you’re about to do is pull out the stand mixer or food processor and get all […]

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  • Buttery Pine Nut Cookies

    Buttery Pine Nut Cookies

    July 7th, 2013

    Pine nuts?  In a cookie? But of course. Fennel seeds?  In a cookie? Don’t question it until you’ve tried it.  (A full dozen of them.  Stuffed into your mouth in rapid succession, because there’s something about that hint of fennel-seed-savoriness when baked with the butter into a crispy-outside, sort-of-soft-inside cookie.) I will confess that my […]

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  • Mocharoons

    Mocharoons

    June 23rd, 2013

    “Mocharoons”… get it? Coconut macaroon + mocha (which everyone worth their weight in sugar knows is chocolate and coffee joined together in harmonious union)= Mocharoons. More, please! But really… this cookie is dedicated to the sweets-obsessed me as a kid.  I wish my Mom, who bestowed important but healthy recipes such as banana bread upon me, had […]

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  • Chocolate Oatmeal Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies

    Chocolate Oatmeal Marshmallow Cookie Sandwiches

    June 8th, 2013

    Any time you have an opportunity to sandwich two kick ass cookies together with Marshmallow Fluff as the glue, you know you’ve got a recipe for fun on your hands.  These cookies are a veritable party- and even if it’s just you in the house, have a party for one.  (Which might be better anyway, […]

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  • Madeleines

    Madeleines

    April 17th, 2013

      Who doesn’t love Madeleines? Really. If you don’t love Madeleines, I want to hear from you. (And for the rest of you, the normal people, I want to hear from you too, because I’d like nothing more than to have an email conversation about how wonderful Madeleines are. They are so good that I […]

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  • Shortbread Tart Cookies

    Orange Shortbread Tart Cookies

    April 13th, 2013

      Shortbread cookies are immensely special things.  You and I and everyone who has ever tasted sugar and butter baked together into a dessert-like concoction knows that.  But let’s be honest with one another, bakers: sometimes shortbread can be a bit high maintenance.  Like I said, it’s special, and it deserves to be treated in […]

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  • Fudge-Studded Chocolate Cookie Brownie Bars

    Fudge-Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Brownie Bars

    March 9th, 2013

    This recipe isn’t for the faint of heart. But you didn’t come to this site without a serious sugar and chocolate addiction, though, did you?  Welcome, my friend. So picture this: a bottom layer of The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie, followed by a layer of the Ultimate Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie with chunks of Bittersweet […]

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  • Ultimate Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Ultimate Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

    March 6th, 2013

      Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies. And everyone loves chocolate. So by my above-average powers of reasoning and just being generally not dumb, I have been able to deduce that a cookie made with chocolate chips and chocolate is a crowd pleaser.  (And don’t we all want to please crowds?) These cookies end up with that […]

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  • Chocolate Shortbread Heart Pops

    Chocolate Shortbread Heart Pops

    February 9th, 2013

    Heart-shaped cookies on a stick pretty much say it all. They’re fun, they take the guilt out of eating a butter-filled cookie (because how bad can something on a stick really be?  Except for corn dogs?), and the heart shape conveniently takes the place of the Valentine’s card that you forgot to get for your […]

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  • PB Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    Healthy Jambalaya Cookies

    January 19th, 2013

    I might have gone a bit far in the cookie genre department here, but somewhere out there I know that some people will appreciate the combination of the three most popular cookies of all time: 1. Chocolate Chip 2. Oatmeal Raisin 3. Peanut Butter* I also know that somewhere out there the same mixed up […]

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  • Toasted Almond Brown Sugar Cookies

    Toasted Almond Brown Sugar Cookies

    January 12th, 2013

    If you’re anything like me, the only thing you care about when looking at the picture of these cookies is the glaze.  The glaze that drips off the edge of the warm cookie, hardening into a little pool on the edge: the best part of the cookie.  (And I don’t say that because the cookie […]

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  • World's Greatest Fudge Brownie Cookies

    The W.G.F. Brownie Cookie

    January 1st, 2013

      This is going to blow-yo-mind. (Well, at least it blew my mind.  And I have strong reason to suggest that as a fellow lover of all things sweets, it will do the same to you.) So you take the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie, and you cookie-ify it. Done. I don’t even need to say […]

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  • Holiday Candied Cherry Shortbread

    Holiday Candied Cherry Shortbread Cookies

    December 24th, 2012

    Shortbread is festive for many reasons, but the addition of red and green (in high-calorie candy form) makes it legitimately holidayish. So here’s what happened: I had shortbread dough waiting, patiently, to be brought back to life from the depths of our freezer.  I had also just made Icebox Cookies (seriously kick ass), and had […]

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  • Icebox Cookies

    Icebox Cookies

    December 22nd, 2012

      Do you know what icebox cookies are? If you do, then you’ll know that they are amazing and you’ll need to bake this recipe today.  If you don’t, then you’ll need to believe me that these are amazing and worth making today.  You do trust me, don’t you? Icebox cookies are simple- elegantly so- […]

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  • Holiday Sugar Cookie Dipped in Chocolate

    Holiday Sugar Cookies

    December 20th, 2012

    Cookie cut-outs and red + green + white sprinkles = festive holidays. Sugar cookies dipped in chocolate with red + green + white sprinkles = festive holidays. It’s that simple.   Adapted from my Icebox Cookie recipe… 1 cup butter, softened to room temperature 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 2/3 cups all-purpose […]

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  • Pecan Chocolate Shortbread

    Pecan Chocolate Shortbread

    December 19th, 2012

    It’s worth it to have to lightly toast until fragrant, then cool slightly, and then process the little pecan bits to smithereens… all in the quest for the perfect chocolatey-pecanny shortbread. If that description made these cookies seem arduous to make, that wasn’t my intention (because in the grand scheme of things, they are really […]

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