Tag: Dessert

Thumbprint Cookies with Jam

Thumbprint Cookies with Jam

Everyone sing along:  On the Fifth Day of Cookies, my oven gave to me….another batch of yucky looking discs. Wait.  I'm not blaming this one on my oven.  In fact, I'll never blame anything on it.  They taste great, as long as you don't mind 

Brandy Snaps with Mascarpone Creme

Brandy Snaps with Mascarpone Creme

Day 4 of The 12 Days of Cookies is starting a bit better than yesterday ended with the last cookie attempted.  Being the planner I am when confronted with a lot of work, I not only chose all 12 cookies I’d make, I organized them 

Black-and-White Cookies

Black-and-White Cookies

My contribution to Day 3 of our little 12 Days of Cookies event is the Black-and-White Cookie, and to be honest, I’d never heard of them before.  I was simply attracted to the look of the frosting and the simple aspect of dark and light.  Well, and that cute little screen Gourmet has on their site with dancing Black-and-White cookies.

I had no idea that they were close to being a revered treasure to New Yorkers. Absolutely none.  Does it count that we have fish tacos?  Okay, so maybe not.

Black-and-White cookies are not really cookies, evidently.  And now that I’ve made my own, I’d agree.  Biting into one is more like biting into a piece of cake.  They’re light, they’re fluffy, and they’re less than fun to frost, but oh so worth it.

Do you think The NY Black-and-White Cookie Police will nab me because I used orange juice instead of lemon?  And sprinkles?

So far in this foray into Gourmet’s Favorite Cookies:  1941 – 2008, I’ve only experimented with new cookies. But I have nine days to go, so I’ll get to the older recipes soon enough and true to form, I’m already struggling with making the recipes exactly as written.  I can’t help it.  I’m incorrigible.

But these Black-and-White Cookies?  Oh.  My.  Forgive me for choosing not to make dainty proportioned cookies.


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Pomegranate Vanilla Pot-de-Creme

Pomegranate Vanilla Pot-de-Creme

  I can’t resist pomegranates.  Although I’ve never owned a tree, I can remember knowing where at least one was growing when I was young — no matter where I lived — and kept an eye on it to see if it mattered to whomever 

Daring Bakers:  Caramel Cake with Caramelized Brown Butter Frosting

Daring Bakers: Caramel Cake with Caramelized Brown Butter Frosting

Here I am on a Saturday morning, writing the post for the Daring Bakers’ November challenge.  It’s due today, but with all the chaos of construction in our house, and cooking for Thanksgiving, somehow there wasn’t time to write. Let me rethink that:  I didn’t