Cookie Recipes
This week's Christmas cookie is presented to you by guest author Garrett McCord. ~Elise When I was a child my parents hated me enough to put me into a table manners class called Ms. Etiquette. I learned to say please...
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord. ~Elise The first time I had amaretti was in the Piazza San Marco in Venice. I stumbled upon a small cart selling a variety of ornate confections. Yet amongst all the tinsel and colorful...
This banana cookie recipe came from my grandmother, Sybil Capune; she was a spry woman who made me fresh orange juice in the mornings, loved her toast burnt, and was an amazing home cook. When I inherited her recipe boxes...
Please give a warm welcome to one of my dearest friends, Steve-Anna Stephens, who is guest authoring this post of one of her favorite recipes for the Southern classic, benne wafers. Steve-Anna sent us a tin of these cookies and...
Please welcome Simple Recipes guest author Garrett McCord who shares with us his favorite blondie recipe. Blondies are often called brownies without chocolate which I find silly; blondies are a dessert with their own unique deliciousness and personality. Whereas brownies...
This cookie has become a holiday tradition in my family and always makes an appearance during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Chunks of silky white chocolate help you ease in the holidays while warm and slightly spicy hints of brandy...
I love butter pecan cookies; I love the way they melt in your mouth; I love the taste of pecans, and of course the taste of butter. This recipe is adapted from a recipe in Everyday Food magazine. Note to...
Dear God, please let there be a diet in which I have permission to eat dozens of guest author Garrett McCord's butterscotch cookies at a time without any consequences beyond a happy smile on my face. Thank you. Amen. Elise...
I swear to you I tried to not make these. The last thing I wanted to make with my young friends (Reilly, Alden, and Piper) was something loaded with chocolate chips and caramel. But try as I might, when we...
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord as he prepares for the year of the tiger with Chinese almond cookies. ~Elise Chinese almond cookies are a trademark in Chinese-American cooking. Often relegated as a second string sweet to the more entertaining...
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord as he shares some of his best-loved holiday chocolate crinkle cookies. ~Elise One of the best parts about any holiday—be it Christmas, Thanksgiving, a birthday, Diwali, Columbus Day, whatever—is that you get an excuse...
Please welcome Garrett McCord as he shares this utterly addictive Nutella chocolate cookie recipe. ~Elise Nutella and I have a history together and most of it involves a spoon and late nights highlighting my textbooks in college. A few tiny...
Please welcome Garrett as he shares the most chocolate-y of shortbread cookies. We ate them ALL. ~Elise If you're lucky, you have a certain special someone who surprises you with dinner when you get home and takes out the trash...
It's cookie time! Garrett has baked up some cinnamon snaps for us that are delightfully crispy. Enjoy! ~Elise Back home in Southern California my family usually spends Christmas time around the fireplace with a large fire roaring. My brothers and...
My dad has a thing for coconut sweets. He even buys Almond Joy to give out at Halloween, knowing that the rest of us won't eat them. So when he found this recipe for coconut tuiles, a sort of curved...
How many baking days are there left before Christmas? If you are still looking for good cookies to bake for a holiday platter, I urge you to give these cream cheese pecan cookies a whirl. The cookie recipe is a...
My friend Suzanne's daughter Audrey loves to cook. When Audrey and I were first getting to know each other she made me a batch of her favorite giant ginger cookies. (She thinks she got the recipe from an old Sunset...
These ginger almond biscotti boast ginger and toasted almonds, as well as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and all spice. Perfect for dipping in coffee.
No cookie says Christmas more than a gingerbread man cookie. It's been thirty years since I last made gingerbread men, and it took all weekend to get this recipe right. After starting with a truly terrible recipe from a 1974...
"I can't wait for you to get here Elise. We can cook! We can make pies and cakes and cookies and more yummy things," exclaimed my young friend Alden as we were talking on the phone last week. Between Easter...
My mother doesn't bake. She's a great cook, but she avoids recipes and baking usually entails rather particular recipes, so she leaves the baking to my father and me. She also has a well developed sweet tooth, so when she...
I've been going through our family's stash of recipes and came across my grandmother's oatmeal cookie recipe. She passed away a few years ago at age 97 (she was born in 1899). It's funny how just seeing her handwriting conjures...
"OMG, these are the best cookies I've ever eaten in my life," I mumbled to mom the other day, mouth full of cookie, one hand reaching for another. "Would you please get the recipe from Claire? Puhleeezzzz?" Claire is my...
Molasses spice cookies are sort of like ginger snaps except bigger and chewy. The recipe for these cookies comes from Cook's Illustrated's The Best Recipe cookbook. Here's a hint on preparation - don't reduce the amount of sugar, the cookies...
Elise's neighbor Andrew enjoys one of Garrett's monster cookies. Monster cookies. Ultimate Chippers. Super Cookies. Regardless what you call them, kids love them. A cookie packed full of peanut butter, chocolate, and candy, it's a must have cookie for Halloween...
My young friend Audrey was over today. She's 15, and she is the official summer intern of Simple Recipes. For the most part, Audrey's job has been to cook existing recipes on the site that for some reason or another...
So, my favorite cookies in the whole wide world are these oatmeal raisin cookies. Could be because my grandmother used to bake them with me when I was little. I got to lick the bowl (they don't let kids do...
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord who brought these cookies over today. They lasted about a second and a half. ~Elise Generally, I stick to ice creams and sorbets come summer, it just gets too hot out to start cranking...
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord who shares his dead-easy palmiers cookie recipe with us. ~Elise Sometimes I just want a quick cookie. Something simple, yet flashy, with very little work on my part. A quick rendezvous in the kitchen...
I learned something new today: peanut butter cookies are my mother's favorite cookie. I had no idea. Dad, however, won't eat them. Go figure. Peanut butter cookies are one of my favorite cookies; they remind me of school. They were...
A reader of Simple Recipes recently left a comment on our Pavlova recipe with a recipe for what she calls "Easter Cookies" (called "Resurrection cookies" by another reader). The commenter, Linda, describes them as a meringue cookie with pecans that...
Holiday cookie season is in high gear with another one of guest author Garrett McCord's delicious cookies. We ate these right after the photo was taken, super chocolate-y! ~Elise If this cookie doesn't capture the seasonal taste of Christmas, then...
Whenever I make ice cream from scratch, we usually have lots of leftover egg whites to use up. Meringues (or as my nephew calls them, "little pavlovas") are little cookies made with basically just egg whites and sugar, with a...
Persimmon trees are often planted as decorative trees; around November, the trees begin to lose their leaves and what remains are bright orange fruit hanging from the trees like Christmas ornaments. I received some hachiya persimmons from a neighbor's tree...
Guest author Garrett McCord brought 2 dozen of these cookies over today. We inhaled them. ~Elise Almost all of the pistachios grown in America are produced right here in California (we’re a lucky state, we are). It’s a surprisingly labor...
Please welcome Garrett McCord who is kicking off a series of cookie recipes as a guest author on Simple Recipes. ~Elise It's early fall here in Sacramento, and outside the proof is irrefutable. Low grey clouds crawl across the sky...
Have you ever gotten a tummy ache from eating too many cookies? I did with these pumpkin cookies from our guest author Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic. Too good. ~Elise “What the heck?” cried out my roommate looking at the...
More photos Several months ago we attempted a New York Times recipe for a lemon confit shortbread tart. Like fellow food-blogger Deb, we had a miserable experience with the recipe. It was just too tart to eat. However, I had...
Please welcome guest author and pastry chef Shuna Fish Lydon of Eggbeater, who shares with us her secrets for making snickerdoodles. ~Elise While people argue about where the name Snickerdoodle comes from, few people who love them waste time with...
Who knew the boy could bake? Here's another classic Christmas cookie from Hank. Enjoy! ~Elise This cookie is my other favorite Christmas cookie, along with walnut snowballs. I am sure my mum made all kinds of Christmas cookies over the...
"We can EAT these?" Andrew (age 5) asked incredulously. "Yes, you can eat them," I replied, "they're cookies. You can also hang them from your tree." "What's inside?" asked Matthew (7). "Lifesavers. And Jolly Ranchers." "LIFESAVERS? AND JOLLY RANCHERS?" It's...
Photos of this batch of cookies by SA Stephens When looking for good recipes for sugar cookies, I turned to my dear friend and Alabama native, Steve-Anna. She gave me two family favorites and we each picked a batch to...
Happy Valentine's Day!
Why should chocolate have all the fun? Here are some Austrian Linzer cookies with a red preserve filling that seem perfectly suited for the occasion. Enjoy. :-)
Can you say addictive? Get into the holiday spirit with Hank and his snowball cookies! ~Elise This was my all-time favorite Christmas cookie when I was growing up. Mum made them by the bushel, and we'd pop the walnut-sized balls...
