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I’ve always been fond of coconut macaroon snowballs. We bought some at the Williamsburg farmers’ market awhile back but I couldn’t finish a whole one. It was just too sweet and heavy. Maybe they were made with sweetened coconut (since the unsweetened variety is hard to find). Whatever. . . So here we have something …
Awhile back, our friends in Knoxville gave us a cocoa pot, complete with a fitted battery powered mixer. The idea being to toss in the cocoa powder, pour in the milk and then zap it with the mixer before and after heating it all in the microwave. It works. It was 8 above Saturday morning, …
I forgot how the subject of scones came up while at a beach house in Florida two weeks ago. but as soon as we got home I looked for recipes. Clayton’s Complete Book of Breads, which is pretty old, had five of them but Yockelson had two nicer ones. From one, I tossed out the …
Here is my peanut butter cookie with the addition of coconut flakes, which serve both as a binder and added texture surprise, and Hearth Bar bits in the cookie and on the top, along with one strategically placed peanut half. The coconut flakes are unsweetened but sweetened would be OK. (Since I prefer unsweetened coconut …
Happiness is a Full Sheet Pan of Cookies and an Oven Big Enough to Have Baked Them In Two dozen cookies on one rack baked in 18 minutes. That’s production! This is the third batch of cookies done in our Blue Star oven. We’ve found that the oven blower should be used and that the …
Here are two popular cookies in my household. Both recipes were inspired by recipes in Cooks Illustrated. I like dates and have a ready source at a local Middle East market, so I use them in this oatmeal cookie. The dates make the cookie! A word about the instructions might be in order. · The …
I worked on this recipe for a while. The objective was to get bright lemon flavor into a real sugar cookie. The Little Woman had her heart set on such a cookie. The zest should have done it but didn’t. It fell flat in the baking process. So I started to add lemon extract and …
Yield: about 40 cookies See Abbreviations, if needed ½ lb (2 sticks) butter 1C firmly packed dark brown sugar 1C sugar 1t vanilla extract 2.5C APflour ½ t baking soda ½ t baking powder ½ t salt 2 eggs 1C coarsely chopped pecans, walnuts or peanuts 1/3C Heath Bar bits (find them in the supermarket …