Cookie Baking

Don’t Call Me a Tart: Recipes from the Two Tarts Bakery Kitchen

Growing up in a family of eleven children, sisters Elizabeth Beekley and Ceceila Korn understood early on that learning to cook equaled survival. Learning to bake, on the other hand, provided one with the valuable “favored sibling” status within the ranks. One could escape a whole lot of hairy family situations with a fresh batch of cookies on …

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Meringue Girls: Everything Sweet

Feast your eyes upon unusual edible gifts, cool confectionary and delicious things in all colors of the rainbow. Think raspberry and lemon layer cake decorated with splattered buttercream and Persian fairy floss. Flavored honeycombs from hazelnut and coffee to rhubarb and rose. “CRACK” brûlée tart with homemade vanilla bean paste. Coyo, mango and raspberry rockets and the MOTHER …

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Taste of Home Brownies & Bars

There’s something about biting in to a rich, chocolaty brownie that keeps everyone coming back for more…and more! Big on finger-licking satisfaction and low on effort, classic brownies and one-batch bars are all-time favorites with family bakers. That’s why the experts at the Taste of Home Test Kitchen found the best-of-the-best recipes and assembled them into this must-have …

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Payard Cookies

100 favorite cookie recipes from legendary pastry chef François Payard’s beloved patisseries and cafés Third-generation pastry chef François Payard shares his favorite cookie recipes—the bestsellers at his popular New York City patisseries and cafés, the recipes he learned from his father, and the ones he makes at home. They range from the simplest sablés (butter cookies) to the …

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Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook: 60 Large-Batch Recipes to Bake and Share

Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. …

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