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Sarah
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These Neapolitan Cookies from Sarah Kieffer’s “100 Cookies” cookbook have been on my list seemingly forever. I’m so glad I finally found the time to make them because they are even better than I’d expected. The cookie has such a nice texture – that perfect mix of crispiness and chewiness – and I love the contrast of the sweet/tart strawberry with the vanilla and chocolate.
Here’s another idea for a little treat to serve when having friends over for “just a glass of wine.” Savory goat cheese thumbprint cookies. The goat cheese is baked into the cookie dough along with a hint of ground thyme. I rolled some in toasted pecans and others in slivered almonds. The pecan cookies were topped with fig jam and the almond with raspberry jam and a little gold leaf from Barnabas Gold.
Delicate, buttery cornstarch cookies filled with dulce de leche, Alfajores are popular in many Latin American countries. They are absolutely delicious and addictive, I love the hints of lemon and salt in the cookie and the way both flavors balance the dulce de leche.
Tahini Thumbprint Cookies How is it possible that I’ve never made anything with dulce de leche before? It’s RIDICULOUS! So good. Soooo good. (That needed to be said twice.) And balanced beautifully by the sesame flavored cookie. I made them as part of my 2021 Christmas cookie collection and they didn't last long.
This year my husband and I moved out of our Los Angeles apartment and into a house on a cul-de-sac in Temecula, CA. We've met most of our neighbors and have been lucky to find them universally warm and welcoming. Christmas cookie delivery seemed like a good way to meet those we hadn't yet and show appreciation for those we had. I made Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Citrus Shortbread Cookies, Christmas Tree Blondies, Pecan Shortbread Bars, and Thumbprint Cookies.
These Hamantashen are my tribute to childhood Hamantashen and my mom's efforts to make all of us happy. Poppyseeds for mom, fruit filling for dad, and chocolate for us (grown) kids all wrapped up in a single triangular cookie.
Crisp-on-the-edges, soft-and-chewy-in-the-middle peanut butter cookies. The waffle cones add crunch and a toasty, almost toffee-like flavor, and the yogurt covered pretzels add a slight salty/sweet tang. The yogurt pretzel coating caramelizes in the oven adding an additional depth of flavor and crispy outer cookie edges. This cookie definitely passed the "do I want to immediately grab another one" test.
There's no holiday gatherings happening in my part of the world thanks to a certain global pandemic, so instead I've been trying to spread some holiday cheer with a variety of cookie gifts. After all, how can you not smile at a gift bag or platter full of beautiful cookies. I like to include a variety of flavors and textures in my cookie collections: think sweet & salty tahini shortbread, cool and crisp peppermint bark, melt in your mouth butter cookies, and raspberry jam and nut filled rugelach. Those are just a few of my favorites that I've been passing out over the last couple of weeks.
Crisp pastry filled with raspberry jam, bittersweet chocolate, toasted pecans, and diced dried cranberries. I made this raspberry rugelach recipe from New York Times Cooking last year and fell in love with the sweet, bite size treats.
Gorgeously spiced gingerbread cookies sweetened with brown sugar and molasses so they have a little bit of a chew to them. Delicious. You’ll definitely have trouble stopping at one!
Fresh from the oven, I kind of wanted to call these Ginger Chocolate Cookies, but once cooled, the chocolatey flavor started to shine and the wonderful warmth and chewiness from the molasses came out, so I guess we’ll go with the author’s original name for them: Chocolate Molasses Cookies! Whatever you call them, they’re scrumptious, bold in flavor and perfect for holiday cookie gifting - if you can bear to give them away!
A friend introduced me to these orange Citrus Shortbread Cookies during our cookie baking party last Christmas. And even though I was sent home with quite a few, I loved them so much that I made more to include in my holiday gift baskets. The bright citrus flavor of these buttery, crumbly cookies is to die for.
Rich, crisp, and chocolatey, around 19 spare seems about right to me. With espresso powder, chopped chocolate and hazelnuts mixed into the batter they hold their own when paired with a strong cup of coffee or latte.
Not quite a blondie, not quite a cake, but tender, chocolatey, with a little crunch from the pecans and full of warm fall flavors. These pumpkin bars are an easy, stir-together recipe, no mixer or beaters required.
A little chew, a little crunch, and a whole lotta pumpkin spice make these the ultimate fall chocolate chip cookie. They’re packed with rolled oats, toasted pumpkin seeds, chocolate chips and pumpkin (of course), and sweetened with brown sugar and maple syrup. All the autumn goodness.
No decorating skills? No problem. With the help of some cookie cutters and rich black cocoa you can create a spooky Halloween cookie-scape too. Candy googly eyes optional. These cute cats and bats taste like Oreos, so pour yourself a glass of milk for dunking and let’s start baking.
Tahini adds a depth you didn’t know you were missing in chocolate chip cookies. A generous amount of dark chocolate and nutty tahini balance the blend of dark brown and cane sugars. They’re sweet and salty and chocolatey and chewy and nutty and pretty hard to stop eating!
Langues de Chat are a lovely, light and crisp French butter cookie named for the shape of a cat’s tongue! They’d be perfect with a cup of tea or peaking out the top of a bowl of ice cream.
I know cookie lists usually come out at holiday time, but I happen to love a good cookie any time of year, don’t you? And while I love a good chocolate chip cookie as much as the next gal, the internet is bursting with mouth-watering ideas for cookies of all kinds, so I’m here with some non-chocolate-chip-cookie cookie inspiration for your weekend baking. This list has 6 (really 7) of my favorites from the last year.
Sometimes simple is best. A little lemon zest, a little vanilla, a little powdered sugar. These light, cake-like cookies don’t need to be “extra" to be incredible.
