Those Cookies

So as you may know, baking has become my preferred medium for creativity and expression. The use of 3 fundamental ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, manipulated in myriad ways to create desserts from flaky, to chewy, to crunchy is magical and I’ve never been happier with all this sweetness around me.

So I figured I’d share this [...]

TWD Back to Back

I’ve got two cookie posts for you here today because time whizzed by and I wasn’t able to write about the Linzer Sables which was last week’s choice by Living the Life. This week’s cookie of desire was Grandma’s all-occasion Sugar Cookies as chosen by Kuchenlatein.  Both cookies were neither eye popping nor orgasmic in [...]

TWD swap again: Sables

This week’s TWD choice was Arborio Rice Pudding and I just haven’t been feeling it the last few weeks with TWD choices so I took the freedom again to bake something I felt was more desirable and appropriate for me.I baked the basic chocolate chip cookies again as well as Dorie Greenspan’s Sables.

These rich tender [...]