This week I visited a friend who happened to be baking Oreo cookies stuffed into chocolate chip cookies and baked in muffin cups. She got the idea from a cookie her son brought home from a high school bake sale. Because they were cookies within cookies, they were named after the movie Inception, which is [...]
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It’s been a while since I posted an actual cookie, so here’s one I made this morning for Fuzz, who I might add, is currently addicted to an on-line game called Wolf Quest. If your kids or nieces and nephews like games, tell them to check it out — especially if they like wolves. But [...]
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Looking for Valentine’s Day ideas, how about chocolate in the form of a gigantic cookie? Like the other Levain copy cats, these are big, fat, and have fudgy soft centers. The ones I tried in New York were very dark and had peanut butter chips and I’ve found this recipe to be very similar — [...]
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It’s safe to say coconut oil is my new favorite baking product. It won’t replace the flavor of butter, but I love how coconut oil makes pie crusts flakey, gives cookies crispy edges, and adds a dense, soft, moist quality to quick breads. And wouldn’t it be nice if its purported health benefits were true? [...]
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Hello, hello. It’s a holiday today—one of those days not everyone gets off but still life seems to be working at half speed . It’s snowing in Seattle as well, which tends to shut down the city, even a little bit. But I thought I’d just pop in and tell you about something fun.
Do you remember the post last month when I asked you to tell me about your greatest cooking challenges—either the most ambitious thing you’ve made, or something big and intimidating that you want to try . I loved reading your answers, from multi-course meals to dreams of croissants.
But it was your cooking aspirations that got me thinking. Some of these things I know how to make, some of them I’d like to try as well. And then a breakthrough: why don’t we do it together? It’s always more fun that way.
So this is just to tell you that we’re going to be getting ambitious around here this year—and I’m hoping you’ll want to play along. I’m deep into research and experimentation for our first challenge and will tell you about it later this week.
This is how it’s going to work. I’ll select one challenge a month, based on your requests. I’ll tell you everything I know about the topic, and enlist the help of others as well, experts who know more than I do. Then, at the end of the month, anyone who wants to participate will make the dish. If you tell me about your outcome, you can even send photos, I’ll share the results here on the site.
Because one thing I’ve learned: scary things are always easier when done together.
So let’s get cooking—and pipe up if there is anything you’d like to tackle this year (Soufflé! Mayonnaise! Korean food! Cheese!).
I’m excited. I think it’s going to be fun.
Hey, I’ve already accomplished a goal for the New Year! Hold your applause, but I’ve finally put a dent a big box of Raisin Bran that’s about to go stale. I bought it a few months ago to make that old recipe “Six Weeks Muffins”. Unfortunately, nobody around here thought the muffins were anything special, [...]
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The post-holiday blahs have zapped my motivation to try anything new, but here’s a fairly old chocolate chip cookie you might have missed or just forgotten about. I baked some this morning and figured they were worth posting, especially since some of you love chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and soft chewy centers. This [...]
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If you like the idea of rainbow cookies but aren’t a fan of almond flavor, here’s a version from Taste of Home which uses ground macadamia nuts in place of the almond paste and rum extract for almond. I tried the recipe today and found it a little easier than the others. The batter was [...]
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Today’s recipe is from a reader named Bonnie who sent it to me with a note saying the cookies were her husband’s favorite. An endorsement from a family member is always a good thing, but what I really liked was the fact she used healthy ingredients. Instead of butter she used oil, in place of [...]
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