Tender Shortbread Cookies (pan-style)
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by Sarah Kieffer
3M ago
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
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
3M ago
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
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Red Velvet Pan-Banging Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
4M ago
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
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Half-n-Half Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
5M ago
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
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Sesame Chocolate Rye Breakfast Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
6M ago
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
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Chewy Brown Sugar Toasted Sesame Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
1y ago
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
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Half-and-Half White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
1y ago
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
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Seven Layer Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
1y ago
I’ve been adapting my Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.0 recipe into all sorts of fun flavors whenever I have friends stopping by, or just need a cookie fix. I have a great love for Seven Layer bars, and decided to morph the two recipes together, sort of. There is no sweetened condensed milk or graham crackers like Seven Layer Bars traditionally include, but still seven layers of goodness: chocolate, butterscotch, potato chips, corn flakes, dulcey pearls, cacao nibs, and marshmallows. These cookies are simple to make and hit all the high notes. Gooey, crunchy, buttery, and delicious all at once. They ..read more
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Soft and Chewy M&M Cookies
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by Sarah Kieffer
1y ago
As much as I love my Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.0 , what with dark, dreamy chopped chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt, or my wrinkled, rippled Pan-banging Chocolate Chip Cookies, I am convinced there is still a need for a nostalgic M&M cookie that doesn’t require much work or pretension. At least, that’s what my kids tell me on a weekly basis. They have declared these soft and chewy cookies as one of their favorites, and each time I make them, I have to agree. These M&M Cookies are essentially the Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies from 100 Cookies, with milk chocolate candies swapped in fo ..read more
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Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.0, My New Favorite
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by Sarah Kieffer
1y ago
As you may have picked up on, I like to make cookies. My Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies and 100 Cookies cookbook are clear examples of my adoration for those round beauties, especially in chocolate chip form. I love all of those recipes equally, but there is always room for change in my mind. I decided to work on a recipe that combined many of the elements I loved in my other cookies: crisp bottoms and edges, a thick, gooey, rich center, and deep chocolate and vanilla flavor. I worked on this new chocolate chip cookie recipe for much of the Spring and beginning of summer, taking them to e ..read more
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