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 | May 31, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
When I want a good cookie, I make it. Packaged cookies in the store can be okay, but they are often hard, rock hard. They have to be to survive a truck journey of hundreds of miles from factory — not bakery — to your store shelves. If those cookies were...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Goodness, it is already March 7th. I kinda remember making some New Year's Resolutions. Kinda. Don’t you hate how by early March half of your good intentions have already been lost in the snow of your selective memory? Lost. Not remembed at all. I don't...
by Brian | Mar 3, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes, TBT
I first posted this recipe three years ago. And every couple of months since, when I have wanted a cookie, a great cookie, I've returned to it. These display the power of confectioner's sugar combined with cocoa: you achieve a soft texture that is like a...