by Brian | Feb 4, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Sour cream and chocolate are intimately compatible. The overlay of flavors in your mouth is rewardingly confusing. Here are two recipes from Mable Hoffman’s Chocolate Cookery, a paperback gem from 1978. The cookie is puffy, but not soft. It bakes to the point...
by Brian | Jan 2, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest
How many times have you made chocolate chip cookies? Honestly? Yes, you have to start counting from childhood, when you tugged on Mom’s apron and got one big serious lick of cookie dough. That’s when our common addiction started. Long after Mom is gone, that...
by Brian | Dec 23, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Try to say this post title five times, swiftly. Heck, just one swiftly. But Santa is packing up the sleigh and deservedly should be given treats on his journey. These cookies would be your best contribution to his busy night. In 1978 I bought a copy of Chocolate...
by Brian | Sep 28, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I’ve posted before a recipe called Nuni’s No-Bake Cookies. Stashed in the middle of Cookie Time by Marilyn Miller Wasbotten, this recipe was one I remembered from childhood. I had lost the recipe but not the memories. Once I had Cookie Time,...
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....
