Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’m back!  See, that wasn’t so bad, all things considered.  Last night I baked for the first time in my new kitchen.  I wanted to make something that hadn’t been featured on the blog, but that I knew would make a large quantity, so the husband and I could both take them to work as [...]

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Pastel Meringues

Meringues are a cookie from my childhood, one I would make when I was younger and sick of chocolate chip cookies.  My mom would pretty much always have the ingredients on hand, so that was never an issue when I wanted to make them.  They are an incredibly simple cookie to make, as long as [...]

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Daring Bakers – Tuiles

This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf.  They chose Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angelique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michael Roux.
This was a recipe that was very easy to prepare, although I think I made [...]

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The Infamous New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies – the best you’ll ever make!

I had seen the New York Times (or NYT) Chocolate Chip Cookies take the blogging world by storm, but I was completely skeptical.  I figured yeah, yeah, chocolate chip cookies, what’s so special about them?  I haven’t made plain old chocolate chip cookies for a while, since they kind of bored me.
My boss talked about [...]

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M&M Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Last weekend I needed a quick cookie to bring for dinner at my sister in law’s house.  I didn’t want anything too labor intensive, but at the same time, I didn’t want your run of the mill chocolate chip cookies.  So when I went to the grocery store, I just started buying “stuff” to put [...]

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