Peanut butter AND chocolate chips AND oatmeal? Overkill? I don’t think so. Neither did anybody who tried these cookies.
I found the original recipe on www.browneyedbaker.com and made my first batch exactly as the recipe was written. Then I decided to experiment a little bit.
My first change was to use chunky peanut butter instead of creamy. [...]

Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
I have to confess, I’ve never made biscotti. I don’t like crunchy cookies, and I abhor soggy things, so a crunchy cookie that you dip in coffee . . . well, ugh. But I needed one more recipe out of Baked, and I wanted something [...]

The two weeks before Christmas were filled with batches of caramel and almond toffee, peppermint bark and nougat. At the end of it all, I was sugared out. That lasted approximately 10 seconds, then I found this recipe for oatmeal cookies.
Unlike regular oatmeal cookies, the dough for these contain no salt. Sea salt (or kosher [...]

The folks over at www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/ have the perfect job. See, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make money by baking whatever I want, whenever I want. So far, I haven’t had much luck, but I’m sure enjoying the practice.
Anyway, that blog up there? Well, they’re the source for these cookies. The cookies don’t [...]

There it was. Staring at me with sad little orange eyes. Every time I opened the refrigerator, I could hear its insidious whisper:
“Please don’t throw me away.”
But what to do with it? I had about a cup of pumpkin puree leftover from Thanksgiving. Trying to find a savory recipe just seemed like a lot of [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie
These cookies were the second half of my recent cookie bender. Unlike the peanut butter cookies, these cookies looked the worst but tasted the best.
I’m on the fence when it comes to ginger. Most of the time, I find the flavor to be overwhelming. [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie
I went on a cookie bender the other day and ended up making two of Mackie’s cookie recipes. The first, this peanut butter cookie, was the better looking but least successful of the two.
This is a basic cookie dough with lots and lots of [...]

Remember these cookies? At the time, I was thinking of all sorts of variations besides lime and cocoa nibs. It took me a few months, but I finally got around to trying a couple of different combinations.
The first combination I tried was chocolate with coconut. I made the basic cookie dough recipe, but left out [...]

I’ve been looking for a way to use up the last of my cocoa nibs, and when I saw this recipe at simplyrecipes.com, I knew I had found it. The combination of chocolate and lime strikes some people as odd, but they go together really well. The key, I think, is in the amount of [...]

I came across this recipe while in culinary school. One day, my cooking buddy Jamie came into the kitchens declaring that we had to make these cookies. I think she found the recipe in a mailer from a ricotta cheese manufacturer. At that point, I had never baked with ricotta cheese, and I was skeptical. [...]