Mmm Mint Chocolate Crinkles… They remind me of a frozen puppy poo that’d you’d find after a fresh snowfall. I may or may not be writing this after a few glasses of wine. Recipe and photo from Fake Ginger. Ingredients: 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, sifted 3/4 cup cocoa, sifted 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 [...]

These simple icebox cookies have rich hazelnut and sweet anise flavors, perfect for the end of a hearty Christmas Dinner. The dough will also last up to a month in the freezer, so you can keep it on hand for for when you need another batch of these delicious treats. Hazelnuts usually have that thin, [...]

I love sweet potatoes, so much so that I always wind up buying so many that I can’t eat them all before they go bad. So this has been a wintry recipe I’ve used in years past, and they’re pretty good! Sweet potato cookies are good when they’re just plain too, with no oatmeal or [...]

When I come home for the holidays every year, my father begs me to make these cookies for him. He was a professional chef, but has no patience to make these labor intensive cookies. He’s an avid reader of Saveur magazine and shared this recipe with me a few years ago. I’ve kept that same [...]

We’ve found the perfect chocolate chip cookie, another great one from Alton Brown, the guy’s a genius. This cookie bakes chewy and not cakey, but still has a little crunch around the outside. It’s perfect! We haven’t strayed from this recipe since we found it a few years ago. A few pointers: Chill overnight, to [...]