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cookies and bars

Hazelnut Molasses Crisps

December 19, 2011
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Some cookies are made to be shipped. They’re crunchy, sturdy, and can weather any postal worker’s worst mood. If you can imagine those cookies’ polar opposite, you’d have in your mind the cookies I’m sharing with you today. They are not for shipping, unless your friends will be particularly excited to receive a tin full [...]

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Bourbon Pecan Bars

November 14, 2011
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People, it’s Thanksgiving time. Turkey and mashed potatoes and yams galore, brussels sprouts and cranberry sauce, and of course, you can never have enough pie. Except you know what? I’ll beg to differ. I’m a pie lover like the best of ‘em, but at a certain point, I need a break. I want a crumble, [...]

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Ginger Brownies

October 28, 2011
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Brownie perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Some like a moist, chewy brownie. (Others inexplicably prefer the cakey kind, but I’m not judging.) Katherine Hepburn liked brownies so chocolatey, they were black – but I’ve also met strange folks who don’t want to be hit over the head by the chocolate. (Again, not [...]

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Amaretti

April 18, 2011
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As I’ve said many times on this site, my philosophy of Passover eating is to steer clear of matza meal and potato starch, and keep things as normal as possible. Meringues, mousses, fruit curd of any flavor: these are the ideal Passover desserts. But cookie cravings call, and can’t be ignored, even on Passover. So [...]

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Best Chocolate Passover Cookies

April 6, 2011
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Friends, listen up. This weekend, I went undercover. For you. In search of a perfect Passover cookie that could fool even the most discerning dessert connoisseur, I brought a batch of Passover cookies to the pre-wedding festivities of one of my oldest friends. Now surely you’re wondering why I’d subject some of my favorite people [...]

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Hamentaschen

March 14, 2011
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from the archive, just in time for the holiday. Among the many traditions associated with the quickly-approaching Jewish holiday of Purim, perhaps the most widely-kept one is the consuming of copious amounts of alcohol hamentaschen. Are you surprised that it’s my favorite holiday in the calendar? Fashioned after Haman’s pocket, hamentaschen are cookies filled with [...]

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Mojito Cookies

October 29, 2010

…and just like that, I’m a married lady. Craziness. It’s hard to believe an event that took nearly a year to plan could come and go in the span of a few hours. Before the wedding, as we were making dinner or reading the New Yorker or watching Tina Fey be awesome on 30Rock, D [...]

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Back-to-School Raspberry Bars

October 2, 2010

It’s true, I haven’t been in school in five years. A working girl doesn’t know from summer vacation, and there’s no annual school supplies shopping spree at Staples anymore. I miss summer break, and, like any school supplies nerd, I miss those colored sticky tabs I used to use to mark key pages in my [...]

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