Seasonal, Adventurous Home Cooking
I recently purchased Molly Wilkinson’s cookbook French Pastry Made Simple which contains beautifully photographed French-inspired desserts which are accompanied with step-by-step instructions making French baking less intimidating to home bakers. I was immediately enraptured by her Chocolate, Walnut, and Pear Tart made with her signature pâté sucrée …
I adore these cookies. They look like perfect little snowballs and are fitting both at Christmas and all winter long! Just as there is debate as to the name and origin of these delicate confectioners’ sugar enveloped cookies, there is debate in my family as …
For some reason, I always make these cookies when I am stressed out. I made them in advance of my SAT so I would have something to snack on during breaks. I make them before I travel, so I always have something to munch on …
Would it even be Christmas without these traditional candy cane cookies? Their retro look coupled with the fact that they make any tin of cookies smell amazing makes them an indispensable component of the holiday season. Here, I’ve used King Arthur’s Sugar Cookie as a …
It is officially time to kick off the Christmas Baking Season with this classic cookie recipe. This is an old family recipe that comes from Mrs. Riva, one of my grandparents’ neighbors when my mom was growing up. The original recipe used Crisco which caused …
This pumpkin cake with mini chocolate chips is so good I just had to make it again for the second time this week under the guise of recipe testing. What I don’t do for this food blog! Due to extensive taste-testing, I can assure that …
I am a firm believer that just about any appetizer can be turned into Teatime fare. And it’s such a fun way to eat- small plates and tasty morsels- a little bit of this a little bit of that. You get to taste-test everything and …
Welcome the fall season with these gloriously soft ginger cookies that are filled with warming fall spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Sarah Kieffer of the Vanilla Bean Blog is an absolute magician at making cookies and these ginger cookies are no exception. You …
Sarah Kieffer does it again with these exceptional sugar cookies. Use the best vanilla extract you have and note that these cookies are positively magnificent with the addition of vanilla bean paste- they have deep vanilla flavor and you can see the specks of vanilla …
