Chocolate olive cookies from Dorie Greenspan's Dorie's Cookies on a parchment-lined baking tray.

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

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was our last cocktail cookie from the book and I can’t say I was super excited about it. I mean, I like chocolate. I like olives. But Chocolate-Olive Cookies? Um…. Dorie says: I can’t explain why the intense flavor of cocoa powder goes so well with … Read more

Stack of Espresso Chocolate Sablés from Dorie's Cookies on a baking tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Espresso Chocolate Sablés from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was for a coffee-flavoured sablé cookie with chocolate. Dorie says: My original recipe for these deeply coffee-flavored and amply chocolate-flecked cookies produced a classic shortbread with the melt-in-your- mouth texture that’s the hallmark of great shortbread and the result of using only confectioners’ sugar in the … Read more

A tray of almond crackle cookies.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Almond Crackle Cookies from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was meant to be a simple one. Almond Crackle Cookies only have three ingredients and I figured they would be a doddle to make… Dorie says: These have just three ingredients — sugar, sliced almonds and an egg — and no reason, other than a baker’s … Read more

A stack of Leckerli from Dorie's Cookies.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Leckerli from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is Leckerli. Lecker-what? I hear you ask! Dorie says it’s a kind of spice cookie, in the gingerbread and pain d’épices (French spice cake) family, but with deep roots in Switzerland. In fact, even in the Alsatian region of France, where leckerli is a tradition, it’s … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's Cocoa-Cayenne Cookies on a tray with a glass of milk with a white and red straw.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Cocoa-Cayenne Cookies from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is Cocoa Cayenne Cookies. Cocoa and CAYENNE – I hear you asking? Yep, hear Dorie out… At heart, this is a quintessential chocolate shortbread cookie: buttery, flaky and not too sweet…  But the cookie’s true nature is salt-and-pepper savory. There’s cayenne pepper in the mix, but … Read more

Cutting board with cross section of Mary's Maine Bars

Tuesdays with Dorie: Mary’s Maine Bars from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is one I had no idea what to expect on reading the recipe (the name doesn’t give much away) and even looking at the photo led me to believe they would be something they weren’t (I totally through they would be chocolatey, even though there is … Read more