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
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
The Perfect Peanut Butter Cookie (with Chocolate of course)
If you know me (either in real life or through this blog) you'll know that I take perfecting a particular thing very seriously. Most notably, I worked on my chocolate chip cookie for about three or four years until I got it right. I was obsessed with creating the perfect chocolate sheet cake for birthday … Continue reading The Perfect Peanut Butter Cookie (with Chocolate of course)
Anatomy of a Perfect Chocolate Cookie
So I was asked to make 'chocolate chocolate cookies' and quickly found that there are as many variations on that as there are on chocolate chip cookies, including with and without flour (both good). I finally found one I loved at the website Crispy Waffle (love that name). Making it a few times consecutively I … Continue reading Anatomy of a Perfect Chocolate Cookie
Gluten-free Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
I am continually challenged to bake things so that I may serve a constituency that may be have issues with meat products and/or wheat products, so I am always looking to solve the 'this is good but not as good as the meat/wheat version." If we are going to bake something, it's going to have … Continue reading Gluten-free Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
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