SMITTEN KITCHEN PRETZEL LINZERS WITH SALTED CARAMEL

You may have breezed past these Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel when you picked up Deb Perelman's latest, Smitten Kitchen EveryDay. When I did my first look at the book, they caught my eye, but weren't the first thing I made. The linzers are tucked in the back with desserts, right next to a bakery style…

ByMichelleDecember 9, 20170Comments

Brandied Cranberry Hazelnut Bars

Are you ready to put aside the pumpkin? Let’s get a move on. It’s cranberry time.

ByMichelleNovember 6, 20160Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

Cookie Time: German Chocolate Cookies aka Chocowalnos

Every Christmas, I find myself making the same cookies. For every other holiday, it's ok to add new dishes, but at Christmas, there’s something comforting about tradition, about knowing that there will be snickerdoodles and chocolate crinkles and that my mom will probably send me a batch of candy cane cookies. But if tradition is just something you’ve done more than once, these chocolaty, coconutty, walnut-studded "brownie meets German chocolate cake" cookies are going to be a new holiday tradition.

ByMichelleOctober 23, 20122Comments

Baking Recipes

Cranberry Chocolate Chip Butter Cookies

Around here, Thanksgiving is all about the old favorites and not deviating from them one iota. It's the one time of year we have stuffing and sweet potatoes simmered in butter and spices, so there's almost no need to add anything new. Almost. I might sneak in Lisa Fain's Ancho Creamed Corn in place of…

ByMichelleNovember 20, 20112Comments

Baking Recipes

Score One for School Food: Ranger Cookies or Flying Saucers

Last week, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she had a craving for the cheese rolls that our high school cafeteria sold in the mornings and during passing period. That made me remember the big flat chocolate chip cookies -- greasy with shortening, a little underbaked, and only 50 cents (or was it…

ByMichelleMay 29, 20119Comments

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