Really, Dale? You burned the cookies? What are you, some sort of amateur? You don’t even want to know how many times I’ve berated myself for this. There’s almost nothing worse than overcooking cookies. It’s a terribly disappointing thing. So yes, I burned the edges of some of these cookies, resulting in uniformly crisp cookies as [...]

No one wants to look at cookies right now, I know I know I know. It’s officially diet and exercise season. But I suspect that some peoples’ resolutions for the new year included being more organized, planning ahead, and procrastinating less, and so this is how I’ll spin the macaroons: it’s never too early to [...]

We went to the husband’s side of the family’s Thanksgiving this year and so I didn’t have the privilege of tasting these amaaazing oaty chocolate caramel bars that my brother’s girlfriend brought for dessert. My mother and sister were positively gushing about how sinful they were, so I had to get the recipe and make [...]

If chocolate-covered pretzels are so amazing in ice cream, then it should logically follow that they’re also great in cookies, right? Of course they are. And since I was adding a salty element I thought it only fair to add something extra sweet: butterscotch chips. Hence chocopretzelscotch. Pretty clever, huh? Came up with that one [...]

I’ve been sitting on this post for an unacceptable amount of time, not because I didn’t have anything to say but because there is so much to say, and not just about these chocolate chip cookies in particular but about the whole wide world of chocolate chip cookies in general. Because, more than anything else, this recipe taught [...]

Every time I make these I feel like a total cheat and also an evil genius. Evil genius trumps, though, because this recipe is awesome, and you’re going to love me for it. It’s also yet another testament to the magical powers of sweetened condensed milk, which has recently graduated to the category of “staple” in [...]

These cupcakes absolutely require an exclamation mark because they make me so happy and excited!!! They are a long-standing tradition. When I was growing up, my mom would make them every single year for St. Patrick’s Day (and still does). I thought they were the coolest things because they were green inside, of course (and not [...]

Growing up, the only chocolate chip cookies I ever made, with my mom and sister, were the classic Nestle Toll House ones. They always came out really flat, and we never knew why, but they were perfect. The first time I attempted to make these cookies away from home, they just didn’t come out the way [...]