by Brian | Oct 31, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
It’s Halloween and, one way or another, you are likely to have a new mound of candy sitting in your kitchen tomorrow morning. What do with it all? Besides eating it directly. I bet you’ll have some candy corn, that delicious symbol of fall and surely of this holiday....
by Brian | Oct 18, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
There is this book, The Cookie Book by Holly Garison, published in 1996 that Suzi and I still use. Weekly. I think I posted a review once, long ago, and I try to find that for you. But, as I said, we still turn to this book for ideas. While she lives in Olive, NY...
by Brian | Oct 12, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
The things you find. I was going back 10 years for this week’s Throwback Thursday blog and I found this recipe. Which was never posted. It’s been sitting in my directory as a draft and for 10 years you haven’t had the pleasure of this...
by Brian | Oct 4, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
I will warn you now that this blog post is a tease. Today, it is the Espresso Buttercream filling that you see in the photo. It looks a little stiff because I just took it out of fridge. I’m using it later to glue together the two cookie halves to make an incredible...
by Brian | Oct 3, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I promised you this recipe yesterday, teasing you with the Espresso Buttercream filling. On a scale of 1 to 10, this is approaching 14. I’ve only had a couple of cookies that were as good. I’ve never ever had anything betters And I’m over 50. This sandwich cookie...
by Brian | Sep 30, 2023 | Cookie Jar
We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had just set out for a doctor’s appointment in NYC, three hours away. Suzi checked her phone and saw we were to go to the Westside Broadway office, but we had talked about the Eastside office on York. I wanted York because a block away...