You know the cupcakes I mean. The ones in the bakery case with tall, proud domed tops — the kind that look like they might burst right out of the wrapper. For years, mine came out of the oven flat...
Chocolate covered pretzels are the ultimate sweet-and-salty snack. There’s something irresistible about the crunch of a salty pretzel rod wrapped in smooth, glossy chocolate — and when you...
Every baker needs one chocolate cake recipe they can make with their eyes closed. This is mine. It’s a one-bowl, no-mixer, 35-minute chocolate cake that’s so moist it doesn’t even...
There’s a special kind of magic in a cookie that cracks open as it bakes. Chocolate crinkle cookies look like they came from a fancy bakery — all snowy white with deep chocolate fissures —...
Rolling cookie dough into three dozen little balls, baking four trays, and guarding the oven for an hour is a lot of work for a party dessert. Pressing the same dough into one pan takes about two...
The first time someone handed me an ube cookie, I figured they’d gone a little heavy on the food coloring. Turns out the color was only part of the story. Ube is a purple yam, and the flavor is...
Pull a tray of warm peanut butter cookies out of the oven. Press a peanut butter cup into the center of each one. Now watch what happens: the chocolate softens just enough to grip the cookie, the...
I’ll admit, when a line cook first showed me this trend on her phone, I laughed. Cottage cheese and cookie dough in the same sentence sounded like a joke. Then I actually made it — blended...
Some cookies are quiet and simple. This isn’t one of them. A good cowboy cookie recipe throws everything into one dough — oats, pecans, coconut, chocolate chips — and somehow it all works...
Most coconut cookie recipes ask you to do one thing: dump the coconut in straight from the bag. I did that for years, and the cookies were fine — a little flat in flavor, but fine. Then I tried...
