Brown Butter Blondies

Listen.  It’s mid-June.  The beginning of summer.  You really should be eating healthfully.  Loading your body up with nutrient-packed greens and antioxidant rich berries and all of that.  I mean, that’s what I’m doing.  Mostly.  But chocolate and vanilla and browned butter know no season. 

Irish Cream Truffles

Do I really need to write a post for this one, folks?  It’s chocolate.  And booze.  Melted, mixed, rolled around in more chocolate.  Highly giftable, delicious, boozy chocolate.  Listen, we all have lots of stuff to do this time of year.  I, for one, still 

Grandma Sullivan’s Caramels

These caramels.  Sigh.  What can I say about them?  If you were to try one, they could speak for themselves, but since they haven’t figured out a way to send taste and texture via the internet, I’m going to have to, as I’m so fond 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Coconut and Almonds

Holy delicious chocolate chunk cookies, Batman!  Seriously, if you do one thing this weekend, it should be making these cookies.

Whiskey-Bacon Cookies with Pecans and Maple Sugar

Whiskey-Bacon Cookies with Pecans and Maple Sugar

I know.  I’m sorry.  I don’t usually go in for this kind of shenanigans.  Ok, well maybe I do.  But I really do try to steer clear of such over-the-top silliness (like peanut butter cup bacon whipped cream brownie bars, etc.)  Compared to some of 

Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Brown Butter and Pecans

Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Brown Butter and Pecans

This isn’t just a chocolate chip cookie. Let me rephrase that.  Saying just a chocolate chip cookie is somewhat disparaging to chocolate chip cookies.  A chocolate chip cookie can be the epitome of what a cookie should be.  So I’ll say it this way: This 

Cherry Almond Breakfast Cookies

Cherry Almond Breakfast Cookies

Happy New Year!  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not into resolutions.  But I do love the feeling of a fresh year laid out ahead of me.  So many possibilities!  So many things I’d like to do this year! But before I get started with all 

Triple Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Triple Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

So we’re finally in the week before Christmas, a.k.a. prime cookie-baking time.  I have to say, I’m quite impressed with the amount of sweets-making and cookie-baking that has been taking place up until now in my house.  Also, I think anyone would be impressed with the 

World Peace Cookies

World Peace Cookies

Hey, you there.  You like cookies?  You like chocolate?  Of course you do.  Who doesn’t? Well, ok, some people don’t. But even people who aren’t big “chocolate people” (ahem, me) or “cookie people” (me again) will be fairly smitten by this cookie.  Let me just 

Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies

Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies

  It’s a rainy Sunday, and I planned on spending the day cleaning the house, doing laundry, and doing a little baking.  To me, there is nothing better than a whole day with nothing to do except look through your cookbooks and then bake a