Christmas cookie palooza: Orange butter cookies, two ways.
So here you go: The last installment of 2017's edition of Christmas Cooke Palooza: Grandma's Frosted Lemon Cookie recipe reimagined with orange flavoring and chocolate. Make 'em either way: Orange Kiss...
View ArticleChristmas cookie-palooza: Hazelnut thumbprints.
Ahhhh … it’s Christmas cookie time, friends! Are you ready? Have you stockpiled your granulated and powdered sugar, butter, flour and vanilla? Refreshed your spice cabinet? Bought all those nuts and...
View ArticleChristmas cookie-palooza: Chocolate espresso black pepper rounds.
These Chocolate Espresso Black Pepper Cookies are perfect for your holiday baking. Like a good gingerbread, they have this unexpected layer of warm flavors: coffee, cinnamon, pepper. This is an easy...
View ArticleChristmas cookie-palooza: Baci di dama.
Ohohohoh ohhhhh … these are perfect little Christmas cookies. Light and crumbly, chocolate and hazelnut, a match made in heaven. Baci di Dama, which is Italian for lady’s kisses. Definitely my...
View ArticleChristmas cookie-palooza: Perfectly delicate chocolate crescents.
Here's how you know a recipe is a good one: The page has this fine dusting of powdered sugar all over it. And the cookbook is falling apart. And you've written all kinds of notes in the margins. As...
View ArticleChristmas Cookie Palooza 2017
I'll admit it: I was going to sort of blow off the Christmas cookie roundup I usually share on writes4food.com this year. I just didn't feel the mojo. Until. Until a lovely woman commented to me (as I...
View ArticleChristmas cookie-palooza: Hazelnut jam thumbprints.
To start off this year's Christmas Cookie-Palooza lineup of recipes for your baking pleasure, here's a simple butter cookie dressed with fancy hazelnuts and jam. These Hazelnut Jam Thumbprints are...
View ArticleChristmas cookie palooza: Salty Marcona almond cookies.
These easy almond cookies are big on flavor, thanks to a salty Marcona almond decorating each one. This is one of my Grandma Dorothy's old recipes, and its light texture and buttery-almond flavor is...
View ArticleChristmas cookie palooza: 7 layer bars.
In this holiday season, can we share a bit of honesty, friends? Let's acknowledge that Seven Layer Bar Cookies are not, in fact, cookies. They're more like candy bars. Which is totally fine, of course....
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