Tag: cookies

... OK, I am a sucker forchewy homemade chocolate chip cookies. And nothing quite hits the spot in the fall better than my friend Kas's molasses cookies. And these yeasted butter and sugar …

<a title="Hazelnut Blondies by The Domestic Front, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/6495515827/"><img alt="Hazelnut Blondies" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6495515827_135ffd4a79.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a> <br /> Fortunately, some kind soul long ago invented the bar cookie, which have the advantage of being delicious, baking up …

I'm back chickadees! And it's a new season. This winter has been the winter of my discontent. It was cold and wet, inside and out. But a change of seasons does bring a change of perspective …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5428346682/" title="Brownies by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5428346682_af15bc9e0a.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="333" height="500" alt="Brownies" /></a> Life has been kind of crap lately, for me and for a lot of people I know. And when I …

It's Christmas time, and I've been baking cookies like a madwoman. There has to be something to leave out for Santa, after all. Yet despite all the baking, we don't have any cookies …

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have gathered that when it comes to Christmas food, I'm a traditionalist. We've had the same meal for Christmas dinner every year …

Sugar cookies can be boring.  Essentially nothing more than butter, sugar, flour and eggs, sugar cookie recipes – even easy sugar cookie recipes – often call for elaborate decorations – piping, “flooding”, colored frosting and even …