by Brian | Oct 28, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Earlier this week, I review the brilliant new cookie book from Dorie Greenspan: Dorie’s Cookies. And I’ve posted one recipe for her Melody Cookies, a thin chocolate wafer topped with sugar sprinkles. The first chapter of Dorie’s massive book is...
by Brian | Oct 26, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
In her newest book, Dorie’s Cookies, Dorie Greenspan gives us 300 incredible recipes that will have you baking for months. I share something with Dorie: an obsession for cookies, especially old classics. In this case, Dorie remembers a Nabisco cookie that...
by Brian | Sep 23, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Recently I did a TBT review of The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. The subtitle of the book is “Recipes from the Classic Cookie to Mocha Chip Meringue Cake.” Here’s that cake, in all its glory. I’ve post two great recipes from the...
by Brian | Sep 13, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
In August I did a cookbook review for Sugar Rush, a dessert book to teach you the foundation of pastry, from creams to cakes to frostings. It’s an alternative path to becoming a faux pastry chef without leaving home. Or spending three years in school in...
by Brian | Aug 26, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Yesterday I did a TBT review of The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. This is the very first recipe in the book. And this recipe is reason enough to buy the book. Elinor says the cookie dough is barely sufficient to hold together the chips, pecans, walnuts and...
by Brian | Aug 19, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
By now you may have heard about management changes at Cooks Illustrated magazine. While who running America’s Test Kitchen is not your most important priority in life, the quality of their recipes just may be quite important. Many of us look to Cooks each...
