Cookies & Bars

Homemade Graham Crackers - Jan/Feb Bake from Scratch 2017

Homemade Graham Crackers

These crackers are softer and richer in flavor than your standard packaged graham crackers. The best part? They hold their shape when you take...
Brown Sugar Shortbread sliced on plate baking recipe

Brown Sugar Shortbread, From Food 52 Baking

Food 52 Baking’s author Merrill Stubbs, who adapted this Brown Sugar Shortbread recipe from her grandmother, calls it “the easiest, most foolproof recipe in the world.”...
Langues de Chat dipped in chocolate on parchment

Langues de Chat

These Langues de Chat are piped cookies that are delicious on their own. However, dip them in Mint Chocolate Ganache, add a sprinkle of...
Palmiers with Vanilla Bean, Pecan, and Cardamom on parchment

Palmiers with Vanilla Bean, Pecan, and Cardamom

Palmiers might just be the perfect cookie: crisp, buttery layers of puff pastry encased in caramelized sugar. It’s hard to improve on something so classically perfect,...

Chocolate-Orange Sablés

Bursting with complexity and flavor, these sables are easier to put together than you might think. 3.7 from 3 reviews...

Petit Beurre

These simple Petit Beurre cookies are rich and only slightly sweet. They are delightful on their own, straight from the oven, but a schmear...
One-Pound Chocolate Brownies

One-Pound Chocolate Brownies

Rich, dense, and packed with chocolate, these One-Pound Chocolate Brownies are not your grandma’s brownies. The orange marmalade adds depth and keeps the brownies...
chocolate espresso cookies

Chocolate Espresso Cookies

Deep, dark, intense…delicious with a cup of coffee. Who wouldn’t love a gift tin of these Chocolate Espresso Cookies along with a bag of...
Linzer Cookies with Meyer Lemon Curd

Linzer Cookies with Meyer Lemon Curd

You must try these Linzer Cookies with Meyer Lemon Curd. The citrus doyenne of the kitchen: an extremely versatile cross between a lemon and...
Dream Bars stacked on plate on wooden table

Dream Bars

Pastry chef and owner of Chicago’s HotChocolate, Mindy Segal has been making these Dream Bars since high school, when she got the recipe from her...