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Many shortbread recipes showcase their rich butter flavor and contain no vanilla. This recipe highlights the flavors of vanilla bean and also partially uses rice flour, which gives the cookie a slightly more granular texture. Rice flour is used in many traditional Scottish shortbread recipes. Image: Peter Muka Print Vanilla Bean Shortbread Author: Bakepedia Makes: Makes 16 […]

These white-chocolate cookies are great with an afternoon cup of coffee or a glass of ice-cold milk. These are based upon a simple chocolate-chip cookie dough, and since white chocolate is very sweet, we have counter-balanced it with fresh-ground espresso coffee in the batter. The result is unexpected, sophisticated and fabulous. Image: Dédé Wilson Print […]

Attaining the dry, cracker like texture of commercially produced animal crackers is tough to achieve in a standard home oven. While slightly softer than the original, these biscuits are nonetheless nostalgically delicious. Recipe from The Secret Lives of Baked Goods (Sasquatch Books, 2013) by Jesse Oleson Moore. Photography by Clare Barboza ©. Print Animal Crackers […]

These log-shaped cookies are redolent with freshly grated nutmeg and spiked with a hint of rum. The silky dough is very easy to work with and you don’t even have to chill it before forming the logs. Instead of rolling these nutmeg cookies on a floured surface,  sprinkle your work surface with sugar to give […]

These chocolate chunk cookies are packed with a huge dose of chocolate and have a rich brown-sugar flavor, crispy edges, gooey centers and chewy mid-sections. To further accentuate the chocolate factor, cacao nibs are added and provide flavor and crunch. All chocolate begins with the cacao nib, which is ground up to create the actual […]

Yes, we know the title is a mouthful and so are these cookies. They begin with heating butter until it melts and browns, producing a nutty, roasted flavor that is infused within the resulting cookie. The melted butter also creates a chewier texture than you would get by creaming the butter. We like cinnamon with […]

This recipe will reward you with very decorative sugar cookies arranged in an unusual tableau. Sushi rice, which looks like snow, or whimsical red-hot candies are poured in a deep layer in a shallow container and are used to prop the cookies upright. In this way you can arrange women, men, kids, reindeers, trees, houses […]

You don’t have to wait any longer for a local Girl Scout to knock on your door and sell you cookies. These are a homemade version of the beloved Thin Mints sold by the millions every year, which by the way, are seasonal. This recipe can be whipped up anytime, is fairly easy to make […]

The dough for these white chocolate cookies is based on melted butter, which not only gives them a nice chewy texture, which we think enhances the chewiness of the dried cherries, but also makes it very easy to prepare. Print Cherry Cacao Nib White Chocolate Cookies Author: Bakepedia Makes: Makes about 15 cookies   Ingredients 1⅓ cups […]

If you like coffee Heath Bar ice cream, you’re gonna love these toffee cookies. They aren’t the prettiest ones around – the edges can be a bit jagged – but they are rich and buttery, crumbly and satisfying, filled with coffee flavor in the dough, which is packed with nuggets of Heath Bars and semisweet […]