These chocolate malt shortbread cookies are rich and buttery like a good shortbread should be, but with added malted milk powder and chopped chocolate to evoke your favorite soda shop classic in cookie form. What are chocolate malt shortbread cookies? Well to answer that you have to know what is a chocolate malt. Or really…
These dark chocolate butterscotch cookies are thick and chewy with a crisp exterior. But chewy and delicious inside. Honestly it’s the best cookie texture. Would I turn down a cookie that’s just crunchy or just chewy? Never. But crisp edges and chewy center is the right answer. If you know you know. Believe it or…
The great brownie debate will probably roar on until brownies have been wiped from the face of the planet. No brownies, sounds terrible. There are generally two camps, cakey and fudgy. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say they prefer cakey brownies so I’m not sure why people bring it up? Who knows….
My Sweet Italian Maritozzi are a very popular treat. What’s not to love? It’s a sweetened dough with whipped cream filling it. I’m a vanilla girl, but I know I’m in the minority. Of course I had to make a chocolate maritozzi! Chocolate bread is somewhat difficult to achieve. Cocoa powder is unsweetened, and it’s…
In my quest to create the perfect chocolate chip peanut butter cookie, I found the best one was actually peanut butter Oreo cookies that have some chocolate chips as well. People love dunking Oreos in peanut butter (or so The Parent Trap – the Lindsay Lohan one told me) so why not simply add them…
Brownies with nuts are a controversial topic, but I think these turtle brownies are special. If you aren’t familiar, Turtles are a milk chocolate, caramel and pecan candy. They are delicious! I set out to make a brownie version, because both brownies with caramel and brownies with nuts are both popular. Let’s put all those…
There are so many different kinds of Christmas and holiday cookies but these caramel chocolate snowball cookies might become a new favorite for you. Different cultures, different regions, and different tastes dictate what we eat growing up. Then most of us as we age and start our own traditions choose our favorites and add new…
Most people have a nostalgic cookie when they think of Christmas cookies. Maybe it’s sugar cookies that were decorated for Santa, maybe it’s something like Buckeye balls. For me, it’s mint chocolate chip cookies. My mom loves mint chocolate and would always make two batches, one of regular chocolate chip and one of mint chocolate…
White chocolate brownies are here. No, not a typo, that shouldn’t say blondies. Brownies. If you love white chocolate, these are the treat for YOU. So what is a white chocolate brownie? Exactly what you might expect. When making brownies we use cocoa powder or melted chocolate. When you bake blondies, you leave those out…
I love cookies. I don’t think they are my favorite dessert- it’s too hard to choose. But cookies are up there. There are millions of flavors and they are pretty simple to bake. Now, there’s only one thing that can make cookies easier. Baking them into a bar so you don’t have to scoop them….
What is a milk bread chocolate babka? I’ve learned over the past few years, many people either don’t know what a babka is, or only know what it is because of that Seinfeld episode. If you’re unfamiliar, Jerry and Elaine are in line at a bakery to get a chocolate babka to bring to a…
Growing up I thought biscotti were some sort of fancy toast for drinking coffee. I didn’t learn until much later they are actually a cookie, even though they don’t really look like a traditional cookie. However, in Italian biscotti actually means cookies. If you break the word down further, it comes from the Latin word…
Sesame seeds are probably not the first thing you’d think to put in your cookies but I’m here to tell you why you’re wrong and why it’s a great idea. These black sesame white chocolate cookies first, are beautiful. I love the black and white. Second, they are sweet, and salty and savory but not,…
When it came to Easter in my house growing up, we never really had any special treats or traditions other than Easter baskets and a somewhat fancy dinner. I really wanted to create a special bread for the occasion. I did some research to see what other cultures and countries do for the holiday and…
There are a million ways to spice up a brownie. You can add cookies or candy or fruit. You can frost them or add extra chocolate. It’s hard to go wrong. These peanut butter stuffed brownies combine peanut butter and chocolate which is always such a good pairing. They have a creamy peanut butter layer…