With a little extra work, you can vanquish your enemies Why do you have so many oatmeal cookie recipes on your site? Because I continue to find new recipes by online bakers and I continue to think they can be improved on. All the recipes I have make good oatmeal cookies, but are slightly different. … Continue reading Bake Sale Winning Oatmeal Cookies
Butterscotch (“Scudderchip”) Scones
Triple butterscotch: Butterscotch chips inside; butterscotch extract inside; butterscotch extract brushed on the top. My lifelong love of Scones came from a coffee shop in Washington Square, Brookline (back in the day) that had the best maple-oatmeal scone that I ever ate. I really wasn't even a scone fan, thinking them dry and crumbly, without … Continue reading Butterscotch (“Scudderchip”) Scones
Salty-Sweet Pecan Cookie
Above, Curio's vanilla salt and Pocketful of Starlight's vanilla sugar. Not pictured: Niblack's butterscotch products, which I think are the best available (and I use a lot of butterscotch products). If you come to this blog often, you will already know that I am not a creator of recipes, but a finder, tester and tweaker … Continue reading Salty-Sweet Pecan Cookie
Banana Muffins 2020
If you know me you know that I buy a lot of bananas, mostly at the pace of my house's eating them, but occasionally there is a skip, then bananas turn brown, no one will east them, new green ones come in, I deposit the brown-black bananas in the freezer. It's like the opposite of … Continue reading Banana Muffins 2020
Banana Cake (not banana bread)
When faced with a surplus of bananas, I make the Cook's Illustrated banana bread recipe. If I'm feeling whimsical, I might make banana pancakes, or I will use them for muffins, with walnuts, chocolate chips, or whatever. Over the years I have collected wisdom around banana baking- and that is that first and foremost to … Continue reading Banana Cake (not banana bread)
Master of Low Arts 