Aunt Noni’s Christmas Fudge makes a great base for a steamy cup of Fudgy Hot Chocolate. Just add hot milk, and marshmallows if you like. You can even add a shot of espresso for an invigorating mocha flavor.
Tag: Cookies and Candy
Pfeffernüsse with Cracked Pink Peppercorns
The flavor of this little cookie is bold but balanced. A thin sugar glaze provides the perfect contrast of sweetness while a pinch of pink peppercorns adds a lovely festive flourish. They are pretty on a cookie platter and also perfect served as a single sweet on the saucer beside a cup of good coffee.
Chewy Chocolate Meringue Cookies
Chewy Chocolate Meringue Cookies take meringues to a new level of intensity and relevance, producing a cookie that is denser, chewier, more flavorful and abundantly satisfying. Besides that, it is gluten free. All told, it has become a personal favorite and is an excellent cookie to share with someone special.
Gingerbread Cookies
One of the high points of holiday baking this year was a new recipe for Gingerbread Cookies. These cookies are festively fragrant with cinnamon and ginger and sparkle with crunchy sugar crystals. They make a nice addition to a holiday cookie plate. They also freeze well and are delicious straight out of the freezer and gingerly dipped in your morning coffee.
White Chocolate Almond Brownies (Blondies)
I once had a recipe for the perfect summer dessert bar: White Chocolate Brownies. The photo was luscious 80’s elegance, a stack of pale squarely sliced bars drizzled with a grid of dark chocolate and arranged on a red plate. They looked picnic ready and utterly delectable. I swooned and clipped the page…
Cinnamon Toast Biscotti
What makes Cinnamon Toast Biscotti special is the topping added during the second bake. After cutting the loaves into thick slices and toasting one side, brush the biscotti with a bit of butter. Then sprinkle each cookie with cinnamon and sugar, like a slice of Cinnamon Toast.
Easy Pecan Bars
The recipe for these Pecan Bars is easier than most. The crust does not need to be rolled out and no candy thermometer is required. Even better, the addition of lemon zest adds a refreshing note to the rich honey and brown sugar sweetened flavor of this holiday favorite.
Spicy Molasses Crinkles
I used my small cookie scoop to form the dough for these half-sized ginger cookies, before dropping the balls into a pan of sugar to coat. The result was my idea of perfect Molasses Crinkles: small, fragrant, spicy, a bit crispy on the outside while still soft on the inside. These spicy gems offer a little taste of Christmas in every delicious bite.
Bacon Orange Pralines
The Scent of Autumn Autumn is in the air and nothing responds to that fresh air under crystal skies like the smell of bacon frying in the kitchen. Come to think of it, frying bacon has seemed like a worthy response to change in many seasons of my life. Standing […]
Kentucky Derby Bars
This recipe transforms Aunt Hen’s Brownie Pie into a bar cookie that spreads the nut-studded chocolate-y wealth of a dessert for eight into thirty or so delicious four-bite portions.
Christi’s Creative Nut Cookies
A Forgotten Voice I have been a writer all my life. Even before I could actually form the letters myself I would tell stories to my Dad and ask him to write them down for me. They weren’t exactly literary treasures but, in those days, I never doubted the authenticity of my creative spirit. As […]
Traditional Gingerbread Cookies
This week I am back to doing it old-school, so old-school that my recipe is adapted from The Art of Cookery, published in London in 1760. This recipe for Ginger-Bread Cakes or Cookies…