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

Chocolate peppermint creme cups on a black cutting board with crushed candy cane scattered around.

12 Days of Holiday Treats: Chocolate Peppermint Creme Cups

Welcome to Day 1 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 sharing are small-er batch (as many of us will still be attending/ hosting smaller gatherings) – each recipe makes … 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

Mochaccicno Muffins from Baking with Dorie on a baking tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Mochaccicno Muffins from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Mochaccicno Muffins from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie – chocolate/coffee muffins that are fast to make and tasty (though I could have used more of the coffee flavour, to be honest, especially in a “morning” muffin!). These have both ground coffee (not coffee powder) and coffee syrup (like extract) … Read more

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