Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies The savory cookies or cocktail cookies as Dorie calls them have been a hit or miss in my house. I was apprehensive about this one. I recently cleaned out my spice drawer throwing away all expired spices. My smoked paprika was one of the casualties. I was confident that I could…
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Date-Nut Pinwheels
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Thank you to Steph who selected these cookies for this month. I think I have been the only one who voted for them. I have quite the stash of dates and was looking for a yummy way to use them up. This is a plan ahead cookie as there are…
Dorie Recipe Round-Up
Tuesdays with Dorie I had wanted to make rugelach this past holiday season so I made Friendship Cookies from Dories Cookies (page 270). I love rugelach and I love chocolate, enough said. I made this Tiramisu Cake from Baking From My Home to Yours (page 266) for my mother-in-law’s birthday. I thought it was great…
Coffee-Cardamom Cookies
Coffee is serious business in our house. My husband is obsessed with a good cup of coffee. We buy whole beans, have a bean grinder and several coffee makers. The latest acquisition is a Capresso coffee maker, I get espressos for breakfast every weekend:) I voted for these cookies for my coffee loving husband. Wow,…
Fruit and Four-Grain Biscotti
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Happy New Year! Starting off 2019 with a healthy-ish biscotti made with whole wheat flour, wheat germ, rolled oats, kasha and flax seeds. In the spirit of using what I have on hand I put dried apricots and raisins in my biscotti. I also omitted the kasha since I did…
Christmas-Spiced Honey Dainties
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Honey dainties or melomakarona are a Greek cookie. This is a new cookie for me, I have not heard of these before or tasted one. Since many of my fellow bakers had made these already, I reviewed the comments to gleam any good advice. I was in the holiday spirit…
Double-Ginger Crumb Cookies
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Our latest adventure from Dorie’s Cookies, double-ginger crumb cookies, involve do-almost-anything vanilla cookie dough. My notes from that cookie dough state “dough is soft and hard to work with”, hum trouble ahead? Also, given my recent ginger fiasco with gataeu basque, I was hesitant to revisit this flavor. My fears…
Sweet Potato and Marshmallow Pie Bars
Tuesdays with Dorie Out of the three desserts I have made this month for Tuesdays with Dorie this was by far my favorite. I did not grow up eating sweet potato pie so this was my first taste and I loved it. The base which is a little like Dorie’s sweet tart dough baked up…
Cranberry Five-Spice Cookies
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies I host a friendsgiving every year. This year the magic date everyone was free was November 3rd, early in the month. I made three of our baking assignments for this meal. First up are these savory cookies in the cocktail section of Dorie’s Cookies. I had to omit the peanuts…
Devil’s Food Wafflets
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies We love waffles, mostly for breakfast and they are only yeast-raised waffles, light and crisp. We own a VillaWare waffle maker which is considered an essential gadget in our house. My husband and I both cook and bake but we have divided duties in the kitchen, waffles come under my…
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