by Brian | Oct 17, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
How would you like a perfect frosting for cookies? I mean perfect. Cookies often demand a frosting that is suited to their storage. We stack cookies, put them in boxes in layers, stage them for use a few days out. Regular frostings, really cake frostings, do not work...
by Brian | Jan 28, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
No, that is not the prow of a Viking ship. Or the head of some new species of featherless bird. It’s a banana. Not quite ripe. When it does ripen, what do you do. You know, that bunch of bananas you bought will all ripen at the same time, not one a day. So all of...
by Brian | Jun 7, 2011 | Recipes
If you want to make to make chocolate cookies, you have some options. You can use semi-sweet chocolate, or bitter, or cocoa, or … You can use them all! At once. In the same cookie. I hate to put this statement here but my lawyer insists: If you have sensitivity to...
by Suzi | Sep 22, 2010 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Here is twist on the standard brownie. Instead of big and chewy, these are small and cakey. Baked in miniature muffin pans with only about a tablespoon of batter each, these are little brownie puffs that are sweet to just pop in your mouth. I’ve doubled Dori...
by Brian | Sep 14, 2010 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I was standing in a slow line last week. I could not see the face of the woman in front of me, but I could see she had beautiful long blond hair. The question naturally popped into my head: do blonds really have more fun. Not in this line. And then, I had a...
