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
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
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was French Vanilla Sablés (p 332). Dorie says: I’ve always thought of the sablé as the perfect butter cookie, the one all shortbread strives to equal, and in this recipe I think you have the model cookie — it’s rich, as it should be; sandy, as … Read more
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
Hello dear reader and Happy French Friday! Remember when I made those Barquettes au Chocolat and I named the post “Round 1”? And they looked and tasted great but weren’t quite the right shape? And then I made the recipe again, tweaking it slightly and using the correct shaped mold? Yep, that was Round 2 … Read more
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