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Category Archives: Cookies & Bars
Juniper Gin Cookies with lime zest and vanilla bean
Even though the holiday season can seem to smother us with cookies, their high time never ends in my orbit (it’s cookies all year around here!). For a long time, I’ve wanted to create a bright and buzzy cookie as … Continue reading →
Whiskey Fig Browned Butter Bars
I’ve always felt that a good, ripe fig is like a little scoop of jam in its own bite-sized pouch. So when fig season arrives, I enjoy lots of them unadorned and I gleefully accept their sweetness as a timely … Continue reading →
Posted in Baking with Spirits, Cookies & Bars, Sweets, Traditional with a Twist
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Tagged baking, bar cookies, blondies, bourbon, brown butter, browned butter, cookies, dessert, fig, figs, whiskey, whisky
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7 Comments
Rosemary Almond Hamantaschen… filled with ice cream!
When I started daydreaming about creative twists for traditional hamantaschen, playing with the dough came first. Raspberry jam filling had always been my favorite (albeit not quite conventional), and I couldn’t really imagine anything better. So I created a dough … Continue reading →
Posted in Baking with Herbs, Cookies & Bars, Sweets, Traditional with a Twist
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Tagged almond, amaretto, baking, baking with herbs, brown sugar, creative hamantaschen recipe, creative hamantashen recipe, dessert, frozen dessert, hamantaschen, hamantash, hamantashen, herbal, ice cream, ice cream filled, ice cream hamantaschen, ice cream sandwich, rosemary, sweet almond, sweets
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18 Comments
Salted Spritz Cookies: Bite-Size and Butterylicious
Whether decorating a momentous cake or piping out colorful meringues, I’ve been known to giggle with excitement and even get teary-eyed when using my pastry bag. It is far from being a kitchen necessity, but it creates such beauty and … Continue reading →
Posted in Cookies & Bars, Sweets, Traditional with a Twist
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Tagged baking, bite size, bite sized, butter cookies, buttery, cookies, mini, miniature, molded cookies, pastry bag, piped cookies, recipe, salted, salty, snack cookies, snacks, spritz, sweet and salty, vanilla bean, without a cookie press
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13 Comments
Spiced Pear Sandwich Cakes
There’s an air of looming formality in autumn. Sandals and shorts disappear into the backs of our closets. Clinking glasses and winter rituals are close on the horizon. Playing in a pile of colored leaves feels invigorating but elusive. So … Continue reading →
Posted in Cakes & Cupcakes, Cookies & Bars, Sweets, Traditional with a Twist
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Tagged autumn dessert, baking, clove pear, cloves, dessert, fall dessert, fall fruit, pear clove, pear cookies, pear dessert, pears, recipe, sandwich cakes, sandwich cookies, whoopee pies, whoopie pies
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14 Comments
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