This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Honey-Blue Cheese Madeleines, a lovely savoury version of a favourite tea cake that’s perfect for l’heure de l’apéro! Dorie says: I’ve always liked the combination of honey with salty, sometimes sharp blue cheeses like Roquefort and Gorgonzola. But I didn’t have the idea to put … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a lovely cross between chocolate chip cookies and shortbread that *felt* slightly healthy because of the buckwheat flour. Dorie’s using an interesting technique of toasting the buckwheat flour gives these even more of a nuttiness than the buckwheat does on its own (hence the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies. Dorie says: It was a picture in a French magazine that won my heart and set me to dreaming about what these cookies would be like. In the picture, the sugar-coated cookies were cracked — I later learned that in … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was one I had a little difficulty with. “Almond Stripes” are a sort of piped out shortbread cookie made with almond meal, kind of like these Viennese Sablés we made last year except that I couldn’t for the life of me pipe them out (I … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Smoky Hearts. Dorie says: Hot, smoky and made for Valentine’s Day. Oh, and for enjoying with Scotch or Armagnac or bourbon too. Unlike almost every other cookie in the Beurre & Sel collection*, these aren’t round. I made them heart-shaped as a Valentine special at … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was one I had earmarked to bring to a dinner on the weekend. The recipe said it serves 8 so I felt that was perfect for a dinner of 7 people (you know, the one leftover dessert that brings you so much joy the next … Read more