As a newlywed, I was making a batch of cookies from a famous cookbook that my family had always kept around. Disappointed with yet another lackluster cookie, I snapped the book shut and declared there were no good cookie recipes in the world. (This was, of course, before the internet. I’m aging myself now.) For Christmas, my husband and I went to Pennsylvania to spend the holidays with his family. Mom pulled some gingersnaps…
With a higher proportion of peanut butter to flour than many recipes, this cookie is just about perfect. Chewy with a moist interior, it’s kind of like a drink of water when you are thirsty but better! I have eaten peanut butter cookies that are heavy, peanut butter cookies that are dry, peanut butter cookies that masquerade as peanut butter cookies with only a whiff of actual peanut butter. I have eaten peanut butter cookies…
This cookie is my personal weakness. A simple, flavorful sugar cookie pairs with a rich, buttery vanilla frosting for the perfect marriage. The first time I made sugar cookies from the ol’ family cookbook, they weren’t as flavorful as I remembered. I knew I needed to fix this problem. With big sugar cookie flavor in mind, I began recipe testing. I really feel that a good sugar cookie needs to be just sliiiightly salty to…
A Tango takes two. It takes romance and drama. Chocolate and peanut butter dance and swirl together in perfect balance in this cookie. Pennsylvania is home to quite a few chocolate companies. The famous Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was created in 1928 in Pennsylvania. To this day, the locals love peanut butter and chocolate treats. This recipe was created in our home kitchen in central Pennsylvania…
Do you have a brownie in cookie form? You do now! The brown sugar, chocolate chips, and cocoa in this recipe snuggle up to your taste buds with the pleasing chew of a brownie. A chocolate chocolate chip cookie – I wanted one. In fact, I needed one. Not the fudgy, super chocolatey Chocolate Crackle Cookie, I already had that. No, this needed to be a chocolate chip cookie, but with a chocolate dough. It needed enough chocolate…
Graham cracker with chocolate! How can you go wrong? All the glory of a s’more, marshmallow optional. This cookie highlights the graham flavor which melds into the milk chocolate scrumptiousness. This cookie’s original name is Jake, the Graham Cracker Cookie. It’s the name we sold it under in the cookie shop. Our customers knew it as “The Jake”. Our family still calls it “The Jake.” The original name came about at my kitchen…
Coconut and lime pair together in this shortbread for a refreshing cookie experience. These cookies are crisp, light, and melt in your mouth. Shortbread cookies are just so satisfying to make. The dough is simple and you can fit a lot of dough on the cookie sheet as it does not spread out much. And just as soon as they cool, they are beautifully crisp and stay that way for two weeks if properly stored in an airtight container…