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Posts tagged “cookies”

Cookie Time: 9 Cookies We'd Like to Bake Soon

The cookie-baking switch flipped to the ON position sometime in the last week or two. Maybe it's all the holiday catalogs coming in the mail, or the nip in the air, but some subliminal message has b...

A Fast Way to Bake Cookies: Use a Waffle Iron
Fine Cooking

We don't have a waffle iron. It's one of those small appliances that's only good for one thing, and we don't eat that one thing often enough to warrant owning one. But if we could use it to make coo...

Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

Good Tool: Cookie Scoops

Between the baking bug that got us as soon as the weather turned cool and the holiday baking we see looming on the horizon, we're thinking it might be about time to invest in a good set of cookie scoo...

Cool Weather Recipe: Gingersnaps

A handful of gingersnaps, a cup of tea, and a cool fall afternoon - what could be better? These cookies are wonderfully snappy a first bite, but then melt into gingery goodness on your tongue. We neve...

Cookie Swap by Julia M. Usher
Book Review 2009

I know home cooks will be making more cookies this year - for school parties, holiday gifts, homemade wedding favors and birthday parties. We're already seeing it in the dozens of questions that reade...

How Can I Double A Batch of Cookies?
Good Questions

Q: Any tips on doubling cookie recipe batches? Do I need to add more eggs? I made snickerdoodles and doubled the recipe, but they came out flat and chewy, not puffy. Sent by Joyce...

Hot or Not? Wilton Combo Cookie and Brownie Cutters

We just spied these combo cutters at a craft store, and we're curious what you think. They are ostensibly for cutting shaped pieces out of brownies with a minimum of waste scraps, but we also think th...

Cannoli Sandwich Cookies
Guest Post from Katie of goodLife {eats}

Sometimes I have crazy ideas. Crazy food ideas. Taking one thing and turning it into another. That is what happened yesterday. It was all I could think about until I was able to hit the grocery store ...

Carrot Cakey Cookies
Guest Post from Sara Morris of Sprouted Kitchen

This is a recipe for ye of a well-stocked pantry. However, if you go buy all of these things, I promise you will use them up on this specific recipe. I think carrot cake is the favorite dessert option...

Make These: Rosemary Apricot Shortbread Cookies

We're suckers for shortbread, apricot jam, and sandwich cookies. So when we saw these beauties over at Tartelette, we thought, "Three for three. Score." ...

Good Question: How Can I Make Snickerdoodle Balls?

Here's another baking question from reader Caroline. Can you help her? I've come across a seemingly unanswerable question, and I thought I'd hit you guys up to see if you have any suggestions for me. ...

Food Science: Egg Substitutions in Cookies and Brownies

We recently received a question in our Kitchn inbox about substituting yolks for whole eggs in a cookie recipe. Baking is often more chemistry than anything else, so we thought we'd take a look at thi...

Recipe: Benne Wafers
Guest Post from Tim Mazurek of Lottie + Doof

This Northern cook is obsessed with Southern food. Fried green tomatoes, grits, pimento cheese, vinegar pie, buttermilk biscuits and hummingbird cake, I like it all. Southern food, like all traditiona...

Peach Cookies from Cafe Chocolada

Take a look at these peaches! Are ripe, sweet peaches in season already? Well, not exactly, but these look just as good......

DIY Girl Scout Cookies

With the prices of Girl Scout cookies rising and trans-fats still lurking in them, perhaps it makes more sense to make your own Girl Scout cookies. It is actually quite easy, and the recipes are heal...

Spring Sweets: Very Pretty Spring and Easter Cookies

We have been noticing an explosion of color across the internet in the form of brilliantly colored sugar cookies. Glittering sugar, colored glazes, and pretty designs seem to be everywhere. Here are a...

Sweet and Light: Icebox Cookies for Portion Control

Even though it's January and we're bidding goodbye to the excess of the holidays, we're not quite ready to pitch sweets overboard. It's so comforting in the deep cold of January to have a sweet nibble...

Leaving Cookies for Santa

What cookies did you leave for Santa back when you were young and a believer? In my childhood home, it was Red and Green Christmas Balls (one red, one green) and a cup of cocoa left on the fireplace ...

My Tussle with Royale Icing

Oh yes I did. Last Monday night I whipped up some sugar cookie dough, and bought some colorants for royale icing that would transform my plain Jane cookies into some hopeful sunrise cookies for electi...

Look! Handpainted Sushi Cookies

We came across these beautiful hand-painted sushi cookies made by Philadelphia pastry artist Zoe Lukas....

Linden's Collapsible Baking Rack

Back-to-school often means baking lots of cookies, or at least it did when I was a child. Please, tell me schools still hold bake sales and children still bring cupcakes in for their birthdays. Okay, ...

Recipe: Sunflower Date Cookies

While perusing one of our favorite stands at the Hollywood Farmers' Market last weekend, we glanced at their collection of customer-submitted recipes for new ideas. A recipe for sunflower date cookies...

Recipe Recommendation: Cornmeal Fennel Cookies

We were in a cookie-baking mood over the weekend, so we flipped through our cookbooks and our 3-ring binder collection of recipe printouts and magazine tear sheets. Finally we settled on a recipe we'...

Martha Stewart Favorite Cookie Contest

We posted earlier this week about the reader cupcake contest that recently wrapped at Martha Stewart. Now there's a reader cookie contest on, and the interesting thing is that you can see all the cook...