Talking about food we love is not an easy conversation. It’s complicated. The matter of the heart is never straightforward. Admitting what you love is somehow like admitting…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ make ahead
Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies | Baking with Dorie
There are several unexpected elements — in a good way about the caramel crunch-chocolate chunklet cookies. First off, there is no caramel in the ingredient list as the name…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ whole wheat
Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds | Baking with Dorie
There are several specialty flours I keep in my pantry: semolina for pasta, 00 for pizza and rye for bread and cookies. Why rye flour? The answer is simple:…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites
Mokonuts’ Rye-Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies | Baking with Dorie
I’ve been busy making and eating these cookie, and somehow, it escapes me to tell our readers all about them. Dorie says: To describe the Mokonut’s rye-cranberry chocolate…
Chocolate/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking with Dorie
After 30 years of publishing and 14 cookbooks later, Dorie Greenspan’s new book Baking with Dorie wins instant acclaim from believers like me. When I look for a holiday…
What’s so amazing about Dorie’s chewy chocolate chip cookies? Not only does Dorie walk you through the recipe that gives us the most wonderful cookies, she lets you in…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Nut/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Chocolate, Banana and Pecan Cookies | The Ultimate
I don’t buy cookies. And for that matter, I don’t buy breads, salad dressings, nor processed foods. As long as there are flour, butter, sugar, wild yeast, and some…
If you want to make good-tasting cookies, there are plenty of recipes able to deliver that. If you are attracted to the beauty of the spiced chocolate marble shortbread…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable/ two ways
Sparkling Shortbread Cookies | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
How would you like to have a master shortbread dough which can morph into a variety of cookies? It’s like a gift that keeps on giving. A buttery master…
Chocolate/ dessert/ holidays/ Nut/ scalable/ Sugar free
Chocolate Bark with Pecans & Seeds | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
It feels right to make dark chocolate bark with pecans and seeds — without adding any sugar. It’s a change from the indulgence of sugary and buttery cookies of…
There are so many amazing cakes and cookies to bake for the holidays. The parsnip cranberry cake and, of course, the yule log or Bûche de Noël (who can…
It’s a beautiful thing you can make a bunch of these chocolate heart-shape cookies and give them to people you know or strangers you don’t. These delicious cookies…
To me, there is no bigger wish for the New Year than world peace. The original recipe of these cookies comes from the French renowned pastry chef Pierre…
These devil’s thumbprints are fun to play with. What I did differently than Dorie was the filling on the cookies. She recommends raspberry and chocolate fillings. But when I…
Heidi Swanson/ Pantry essentials/ Savory/ Vegetable
Vibrant Broccoli Buddha Bowl with Curry Pesto – IHCC Bon Voyage Heidi
A few drops of sriracha chili sauce adorn the buddha bowl This is the last week of the six months cooking along with Heidi Swanson at IHCC. The buddha…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ holidays/ my favorites/ scalable/ whole wheat
Coffee Anise Stars | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
It’s exciting to be making holiday cookies and decorate them to radiate the seasonal glow. That means making the coffee-anise stars from Baking with Dorie. The flavor of espresso…
Give me a mochaccino muffin with the morning java. That’d surely make my day; it will also lighten my heart and waken my senses. What more can I…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ featured/ foundation recipe/ French/ Gluten free/ Nut
Parisian Macarons | Dorie Greenspan
Parisian macarons were the first cookie I learnt to bake. I mean, before then, I’ve not baked much of anything. It sounds so incredulous that I can hardly wrap…
I get ambitious with my baking during the holidays and special occasions. I make Dominique Ansel’s champagne macarons. In full disclosure, they come with a warning label. There is…
For a change, I want to do something goofy and fun for halloween. The inspiration and recipe come from Sweet by Ottolenghi and Goh. In the book, Helen Goh…
This pistachio and raspberry financier is the sequel following the success of Dorie’s matcha financier from her book Baking Chez Moi. The story goes that these French almond cookies…
These Dorie Greenspan’s bar cookies pack layers of flavor and surprises. Fruity berries flourish on top. The sweet velvety custard and the chewy grainy cornmeal crust settle at the…
The name of the cookie may not tell you much, especially if you are not proficient in French. These are French butter cookies, shaped like a puck or a…
Merveilleux is a sandwich of two light meringues welded with whipped cream, and then coated with whipped cream all around and dusted with chocolate shavings. I have not tasted…
Is it a tart or is it a pizza? Dorie Greenspan says that everyone in France thinks that apple tart flambée is a pizza, except the Alsatians, who…