Leftover Oatmeal Cookies

Leftover Oatmeal Cookie

We like to cook up big vats of oatmeal on weekday mornings, which means that we often end up with extra oatmeal. We hate wasting food, and these leftover oatmeal cookies are a great way to use up anything left at the bottom of the pot. Who invented this recipe? There’s no written record of … Read more

White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies Recipe

White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies Recipe

This white chocolate raspberry cookies recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and sour. These cookies use a traditional chocolate chip cookie base, but replace the dark chocolate chips with raspberries and white chocolate chunks. The super sweet white chocolate chips are perfectly balanced by the tangy raspberry pieces. A Short History of White Chocolate … Read more

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

We were shocked to learn that these peanut butter kiss cookies are mostly known by an entirely different name – peanut butter blossoms. Many seem to associate them with the holidays. We associate them with anytime we need a chocolate-and-peanut-butter fix. In our house, that’s pretty much all the time. A Short History of Peanut … Read more

Monster Cookie Recipe

Monster Cookie Recipe

This monster cookie recipe is the best strategy we’ve found for prying leftover Halloween candy away from our kids. Halloween Candy Excesses It seems to be a peculiar Los Angeles thing, perhaps because so many people here work in Hollywood and entertain for a living, to be obsessed with Halloween. We’re talking enormous spiders spinning … Read more

Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies

Can’t pick between a brownie and a cookie? We understand; that happens to us, too. This recipe combines them both into delicious brownie mix chocolate chip cookies. About this Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe This recipe takes a homemade brownie recipe and dollops it into chocolate chip cookies. This makes a brownie more convenient … Read more

Spookiest Halloween Real Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Real Red Velvet Cake Recipe

We’ve adapted our favorite real red velvet cake recipe for Halloween. For the holiday, our favorite red velvet cake is festooned with adorable meringue ghosts. A creamy whipped cream cheese frosting hides the blood red insides. SPOOOOOKY and delicious! A Short History of This Real Red Velvet Cake Recipe Some key facts: in the 19th … Read more

What is the Best Cookie Scoop?

Monster Cookie Recipe

Are you like us? Do you spend every day pondering different cookie varieties? Are you scooping cookies in your dreams? In that case, you definitely deserve (and need!) the best cookie scoops around. Why Do I Need a Cookie Scoop? Emerson is often quoted as having said “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”. … Read more

Halfmoon Cookie Recipe

Halfmoon Cookie Recipe

If you’ve ever googled either a black and white or a halfmoon cookie recipe, you’ll find a lot of smack talking. There is a war going on between the residents of Utica, New York, and the bakers of New York City. It is possible that it is a one-sided war, that only the residents of … Read more

Shopping Corner for Bakers

Great baking is about great tools. Here are our favorite baking tools to ensure that every cake, cookie, and muffin comes out perfectly! Best Cookie Tools: A sturdy half sheet pan and a silicone baking mat, along with a cookie scoop set wll ensure that every cookie turns out perfectly. Best muffin tools: Our silicone … Read more