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Category Archives: Cookies
Peppermint Pinwheels
The little gods that rule over my kitchen were up to no good these past few weeks. They messed around with recipe after recipe. Painstakingly assembled squash gnocchi boiled into slimy, dense morsels; a raisin and caramelized onion sauce for roasted cauliflower turned out harsh, almost metallic-tasting; and batch after batch of thumbprint cookies (a new version based on rice krispies) came out a weird combination of soft and gritty. The little spirits must have gotten their fill of fun at my expense at long last, because I finally managed to get one recipe right. I’ve had my eye on … Continue reading
Lace Cookies
Okay, I’ve jumped the gun. I’ve already started baking Christmas cookies, even though I’ve barely made plans for what I’m going to bake for Thanksgiving dessert. (The plans that I did make are grand, I must say, and for the first time in many years they don’t involve pie.) Well, so be it. Fools rush in, they say, but I just couldn’t help myself. At least I’m a happy fool. I spent a couple of blissful weeks testing this recipe for lace cookies, the delight unshattered by sporadic batches of deformed, burned or limp cookies. (I ate them all.) Things … Continue reading
Pumpkin-Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches
When a friend mentioned eating some out-of-this-world pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins, it struck me that I’d never baked with that particular combination of flavors before. After some internal head-shaking and tsk-tsk-ing, I put my apron on and started working. I decided to experiment with cookie recipes because I hadn’t seen that many good ones out there, at least not for the kind of chewy and dense cookie I imagined. It turns out there’s a good reason for this: puréed pumpkin, like all fruit purées, gives baked goods a moist, tender crumb, but it prevents gluten development (for chewy texture). … Continue reading
