by Brian | Aug 20, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Cookies. They are among the first foods we eat and they fit into a special niche in our lives. Cookies are not dessert. They don’t count for that. And they are small so basically calorie free. There is a gracious, guilt free feeling about cookies. Uh, there should be....
by Brian | Jun 6, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
I first blogged this recipe three years ago. It’s a childhood favorite that I keep returning to. This time, though, I used one of the options: adding a cup of shredded coconut. A very good cookie was elevated to sweet perfection. This cookie recipe has three...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2013 | Cookbook Review, Cookie Jar, Recipes
What? Another meringue cookie recipe? You bet. Because this one is, I am confident, the definitive recipe. Single ingredient cookbooks charm me. That’s a lot of pages for one thing. Yet if that thing is vanilla, how can you be wrong. Pure Vanilla is a distinguished...
by Brian | Mar 6, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
“Too big.” I said. I know what I am talking about. “They’ll be fine,” Suzen countered. I bit my tongue. I waited. They baked. They cooled. Suzen made the filling and began to assemble these sandwich cookies. “Too big,” she...
by Brian | Feb 7, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I have a new proof for the existence of God. It would take such superior designer to come up [and conceal] two very distinct but two very complex nut foods. Foods that are encased so deeply you cannot believe how people ever figured out to use them. There is...
by Brian | Feb 2, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
This not just a cookie. It is an experience. I’m posting this on the Saturday before Super Bowl. If you are partying and if you want to impress folks — and certainly give your own mouth a bushel of flavors — then you need to consider this marvelous...
