Holiday season is cookie season! We are all about cookies this month: baking, decorating, gifting and hosting the classic cookie exchange. On Taste, we’ll be sharing 30 days of holiday cookies, so be sure to…
Cookie of the Day
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The berry of an evergreen tree, allspice tastes like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. It is a particular favorite with holiday bakers, who like to add its bold…
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Cooking butter until it is a deep, rich brown, before it darkens and burns, produces a nutty-flavored butter that enhances the traditional blondie. French chefs call this brown butter beurre…
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Holiday season is cookie season! We are all about cookies this month: baking, decorating, gifting and hosting the classic cookie exchange. On Taste, we’ll be sharing 30 days of holiday cookies, so be sure to…
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These cookies from our new cookbook Williams-Sonoma Home Baked Comfort came about as an embellishment to a “dirt cake” — chocolate cake and whipped cream topped with crushed Oreo cookies…
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The origin of the madeleine, the shell-shaped sponge cake eaten as a cookie, is disputed, although most food scholars believe it originated in the Lorraine city of Commercy. It traveled…
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Despite their whimsical names, these are not children’s toys — though they are child’s play to make! These slice-and-bake cookies use two differently colored — and flavored — doughs to…
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The filling for these delicious sweet-tart squares is a homemade lemon curd, a thick, smooth lemon-butter sauce that’s often spread on muffins, cakes or even bread. Meyer lemons, beloved for…
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Delicate almond cookies are a nice treat for the cold months, when nuts are newly harvested. Serve these with hot cider at holiday time.
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Alfajores are arguably the most famous Argentinean dessert, sold worldwide and prepared in most countries in Latin America. The dulce de leche filling is also made throughout the continent, sometimes under different names,…