Mac Nut Macarons with Chocolate Ganache
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.I would have bet...
View ArticleMartha's Tender Mandelbrot
I'd never eaten mandelbrot before but as soon as I finished baking them, I realized they were similar to a Greek cookie (paximathia) I grew up eating. This particular recipe is a straightforward almond...
View ArticleAlmond Macaroons
I've seen a lot of posts recently about macarons. The quintessential French cookie, these are often flavored, colored and sandwiched. Combined with others, the displays of these cookies can be...
View ArticleMexican Wedding Cakes
I made Mexican Wedding Cookies for what felt like years working in a nearby Seattle restaurant. The recipe came from my dear friend Bennie, and I used a couple of her tricks when making the Mexican...
View ArticleChewy Almond and Cherry Bars
This bar cookie from Cookies and Brownies is so simple you can probably make it from ingredients you have on hand right now. But if you go for the cherry and almond combination, you'll get a chewy...
View ArticleAlmond Biscotti
No cookie book would be complete without an almond biscotti recipe, and this one does the genre justice. Perfect for eating fresh or storing longer term in the freezer, almond biscotti make a solid...
View ArticleToffee Bars
These were the big surprise bar for me, and now that I've made these I know I'll make them again, easily. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I thought these would be toffee-like bar cookies. In...
View ArticleNot Rocky Road
Oddly enough, ice creams were not covered as part of the curriculum in the pastry school I attended, and I always believed this to be a heinous oversight. Ice cream and all of its international...
View ArticleAlmond Rooibos Semolina Cake
When I walked into the Perennial Tea Room on my mission to make tea desserts, this was perhaps the least formed idea in my head. I knew I wanted a simple pound cake that had been soaked in an herbal...
View ArticleOlive Oil Cake with Brown Butter Glaze
Well, I already had the oven heated and the pans out, so after making the lemon almond cake I decided to give an olive oil cake a try too. This one came from Gina DePalma, the pastry chef at Babbo, via...
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