I have been making some version of these chocolate sugar cookies with cardamom for twenty years, and the recipe has made it’s way, with various tweaks, into two of my cookbooks. In this recipe, the chocolate dough balls are rolled in granulated sugar that’s mixed with cardamom. These cookies are easy to make, and adds to my list of best holiday cookie box recipes. They also will satisfy any chocolate craving you may have. I had never even heard of cardamom until I started working at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse; Colleen had made cardamom chocolate scones and after one bite I was completely hook ..read more

Recipes for cookies without chocolate chips are nothing new, of course, but when I posted a picture of my “un”-chocolate chip cookie on Instagram two weeks ago I had quite a few people asking for the recipe, so I thought a blog post was in order. While I personally love a warm pan-banging chocolate chip cookie, I have found that cookies without chocolate are also just as tasty. And, with a good friend who hates chocolate (what?) and another friend allergic to chocolate, I wanted something I could quickly make that would keep everyone happy and safe. What Makes this Chocolate Chipless Cookie R ..read more

Often, when chocolate cookies are strutting around a bakery case, sending out their sexy, glossy vibes, the humble oatmeal cookie is completely overlooked. Small and round, filled with dried fruit and a handful of spices, this unassuming cookie doesn’t always make a big splash. Its charm is subtle; it hums quietly while other confections roar. But, in all honestly, I’m fine with the majority of people passing by these raisin-filled circles because it means there are more for me. Main Ingredients for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Rolled vs Quick Oats: I find either kind of oat works well in this cook ..read more

Shortbread has many aficionados, but like all intense passions, there is a great divide among enthusiasts about principle and purpose. Many fanatics argue over whether to work the butter into the flour toward the end of mixing, or cream butter and sugar together initially. In this version I use the latter method, and bake my shortbread in a pan for crisp, golden shortbread rectangles, or fingers as they are sometimes called. How this recipe differs from others: I like my shortbread crisp, so I use a 9 by 13 in [23 by 33 cm] baking pan. The shortbread bakes up thinner. If you like a thicker sh ..read more

Almost every coffeehouse I worked at in the late 90’s made sure to offer four kinds of cookies: chocolate chip (of course), peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and the very fancy (at least for suburban Minnesota) white chocolate macadamia nut. Chocolate chip was my number one pick each time, and I never was a huge fan of the latter: the white chocolate was overly sweet, and the macadamia nuts were left in huge pieces that could crack a tooth. Years later when I was developing cookie recipes I finally found a white chocolate that I liked, and discovered that using that good chocolate and finely cho ..read more

These Red Velvet Pan-Banging Cookies are a variation of both the Pan-Banging Sugar Cookie and the Pan-Banging Ginger Molasses Cookie with Rum Butter Glaze, which are all also off-shoots of my Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies. These delicious cookies have buttery, rippled edges and a chewy center as a result of using the pan-banging cookie technique. They also mimic the famous red velvet cake (like my Red Velvet Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies), with both red food coloring and a little bit of cocoa powder in the dough to create the beautiful burgundy hue, and a partial dip in cream chee ..read more

These are the Half-n-Half Chocolate Chip Cookies I’ll be making for the Bake a Difference event on Nov. 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. with my friend Zoe Francois (I hope you’ll join even if you’re not in the Twin Cities)! They’re part double chocolate cookies, part gooey chocolate chip cookie, based off my Chocolate Chip Cookie 2.0 recipe that so many of you love. We’ll be baking some amazing desserts( Zoe will be making Basque Cheesecake with Roasted Pumpkin!) and raising money for Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen. From environmental catastrophes to upheaval around the globe, every pe ..read more

You have my permission to give me any and all side-eye for suggesting cookies for breakfast, but, hear me out: what if sometimes, just occasionally, we had them for that first morning meal? Because while I don’t eat cookies every day first thing, I pretty much want to. And if I was eating cookies for breakfast, these would be the ones I choose. They are included in my cookbook 100 Morning Treats, and are inspired by the the rye-cranberry chocolate chunk cookies in Dorie Greenspan’s excellent book Baking with Dorie (which she graciously allowed me to feature on my website). Her cookie recipe i ..read more

While my Pan-banging Chocolate Chip Cookies are the most-made cookies on this site (thank you!), quite a number of you also love two others: Sesame Chocolate Chip Pan-banging Cookies, and Chewy Brown Sugar Cookies. I also love making both of those cookies, and thought it might be a good idea to combine their flavor profiles. So I took the dark brown sugar from the sugar cookies and the toasted sesame oil and seeds from the pan-banging cookies, and rolled them into a new version of my Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.0. These cookies have crisp edges and a gooey, chewy center. The caramel-y notes from ..read more

While I am officially addicted to chocolate (and especially these Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.0), I decided to try and hang on to summer for just a bit longer by incorporating raspberry into this vibrant and fruity cookie. I took my favorite Sugar Cookie recipe from 100 Cookies and split the dough in half, adding finely chopped white chocolate to one side, and freeze-dried raspberry powder to the other. The result is a buttery, delicious cookie with excellent flavor: the white chocolate and raspberry shine in each bite. Eaten just cooled, the cookie will have crisp edges and a soft, tender cente ..read more