Posts tagged “cookies”

  1. Previously by Lisa Yelsey: A Recipe for Cake Pops and A Recipe for Rugelach. HI. My most recent baking project was to make black-and-white cookies! Everyone in my family likes them, but none of us can agree on a good place to get them. The only real consensus regarding exactly what makes these cookies good is “not stale,” and not-stale versions of these cookies are surprisingly difficult to find. Just like all the other foods people vaguely mention…

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  2. Visionary philosopher Brillat-Savarin said “The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.” Most of us would agree that a wonderful culinary invention would make us happier than knowing Pluto’s planetary status. What if it were the invention of a new cookie? Now we’re talking happiness. One such great invention:  The Toll House Cookie™. Most cookie lovers will agree that the invention of

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  3. If you give a mouse a cookie, your life will no longer be your own. You will never again know peace; you have already given in. He's going to ask for a glass of milk and you will give it to him, because you are incapable of acting in your own best interests. When you give him the milk (just say no, no is a perfectly reasonable response; why won't you say it?) he'll probably…

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  4. Okay, you don't care, you just want some cookies. Or you have a kid, and he magically goes to a school that still lets you bring in unpackaged homemade baked goods, but you forgot, and he needs them in the morning, and your oven is broken. Or, if you're me, you're just bad at making cookies in general. Either you use waxed paper when you shouldn't, and they sail off in all directions, or they're…

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