Baked Sunday Mornings: Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies
Peanut butter lovers, rejoice! You have a new favorite cookie. But don’t thank me; thank Baked Occasions, which has again, as is often the case, reinvented a classic dessert to make it just a little better than what we were eating yesterday. In this case, they’ve tackled peanut butter cookies on the premise that the old-school […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Old-School Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Educators of America, rejoice! At long last, the end of 2016-17 is rapidly approaching– the summer beckons with its lazy mornings and free time and glorious baking projects that I don’t have time for between August and June. Please join me in a resounding: Hallelujah! But first– cookies. Old-School Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, to be exact. In Baked Occasions, […]
All Buttered Up: Chocolate Chip Toffee Shortbread Bars
For bakers who like to tinker, accidents and failures are a common enough occurrence– mostly annoying, sometimes infuriating, but sometimes triumphant! In the best cases, they are great learning experiences that inform our future baking. (Like that’s any consolation when I’m throwing out four sticks of butter, but yeah, afterwards. 😉 ) Shortbread is one of […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Caramel Candy Popcorn Balls
Popcorn and caramel and candy in one treat? Check, check, and check. Baked Sunday Mornings made Caramel Candy Popcorn Balls from Baked Occasions this week to celebrate Administrative Professionals’ Day… Man, I reeeeally wanted to like these. BAKED developed them as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the old-school notion of “secretaries” from decades past. I think they capture this (fortunately) […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: S Cookies
I’m slowly building my repertoire of Italian pastries, and I’d like to think that I’m getting fairly familiar with a wide array of regional specialties. (I’m even thisclose to finally posting my blog series based on my two recent trips to Italy– this has been literally years in the making.) But S Cookies? Never heard of ’em. […]
One Dough to Rule Them All: Chocolate Chip & Vanilla Cream Hamantashen
I know, I know– Purim was last weekend. But I’ve had so much fun hamantashening this year that I didn’t have enough time to put together a blog post before the holiday. And then I wondered whether it was worth it to write one up after the fact– I mean, who’s still making hamantashen now? But […]
Have a Heart: Lavender Shortbread Valentines
Whether you’re celebrating with a valentine, galentine, or your pretty self on this most illustrious of Hallmark occasions, everybody deserves a heart today! I realized that I didn’t make anything ultra-chocolaty this year, which frankly is an egregious oversight on my part, as a person who would frolic in a river of chocolate if it were socially […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Nutella Chip Cookies
The Italians get it right; when it comes to food, in my opinion their culinary prowess is unparalleled in the world. One such invention is the luxurious chocolate-hazelnut spread that we know and love as Nutella. It is the filling lovingly shmeared on slices of bread by Italian mothers for their children; the ultimate topping slathered on waffles […]
#WhyIMarch: Resistance Vanilla Cake Truffles
I believe in women. I believe in equality. I believe in progress. I try not to get too political on here, because after all, the focus of this blog is to foist gluttonous amounts of butter and sugar on you, but the recent events in this country are freaking me out. To tell you the truth, […]
Hanukkah Roll Call: Chocolate Pistachio Nutella Rugelach
It’s Hanukkah this week, which means it’s time for rugelach, people. I really can’t say why I don’t eat rugelach much during the rest of the year; there’s no actual reason not to, and a host of reason to eat them. But for some reason, I relegate these cookie rolls primarily for the Jewish Festival of Lights. And […]
