12 Days of Holiday Treats: Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Scroll to the bottom of the post to get ALL the “12 Days” recipes from 2019, 2020, and 2021! Welcome to Day 5 of The Twelve Days of Holiday Treats! Once again, this year, from December 1st-12th I’ll post a new holiday treat recipe every day – inspiration for your holiday entertaining! The recipes I’m … Read more

A stack of homemade petite écolier cookies on a pink plate next to a glass of milk on a wooden table with some pencils scattered on the table.

French Fridays: French Butter Cookies with Chocolate (Homemade Petit Ecolier Cookies)

Hello September and hello back-to-school season. Yikes! How can it already be “la rentrée” as they call it in France? For various reasons, August has gone by in a flash and we’re back to classes next week (I want to say “already” but it’s really been a lovely long summer so can’t complain…). As well … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's Chocolate-Pecan Cookies on a marble countertop.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate-Pecan Cookies from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Chocolate-Pecan Cookies (p 200). It’s a fairly simple cookie made with Dorie’s Do-Almost-Anything Chocolate Cookie Dough (with chopped nuts mixed in) and topped with a mixture of chopped nuts and meringue. Dorie says: The simple trick of mixing nuts with sugar and egg whites to create … Read more

White plate of Zan’s Birthday Cookies from Dorie's Cookies.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Zan’s Birthday Cookies from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Zan’s Birthday Cookies (p 297). Dorie says: I created them for the thirteenth birthday party for a friend’s daughter, Zan. It was only after I tasted them that I realized I’d channeled the spirit of a German chocolate cake. The base of the cookie is … Read more

Dorie Greenspan One Big Break-Apart Chipper on a baking tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: One Big Break-Apart Chipper from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is One Big Break-Apart Chipper from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie – basically a giant chocolate chip cookie that you break up and serve so people can nibble as much or little as they like! This cookie dough is a keeper – whether you bake it as individual cookies … Read more