These are very definitely a peanut butter cookie, but they are also a wheat free oatmeal cookie. I experimented with my favourite peanut butter cookie recipe to make some for a friend who can't eat wheat, but can tolerate oats. I discovered that … [Read more...]
Ciambelline al vino: red wine and aniseed biscuits
These are one of my most memorable culinary discoveries of last year, and one of the best cookies I’ve had in a lifetime (which is saying something -- just ask my thighs). Crunchy, just-sweet, and deliciously fragrant, ciambelline al vino ('little … [Read more...]
‘World Peace Cookies’ taken with a pinch of salt
World peace. That's a lot to put onto a cookie, but that's what cook book author and baker Dorie Greenspan calls this famous chocolate biscuit, crediting Parisian patissière Pierre Hermé with its invention. It is world class, though, so I … [Read more...]