Posts Tagged as ‘baking’

15 April 2008

Peanut butter cookies win Bake-Off

I’m thinking maybe I should stop writing about food, and spend more time baking it. Specifically, cookies. More specifically, cookies like Carolyn Gurtz’s Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies.
Her simple recipe — it uses refrigerated cookie dough as its base — took the $1 million Grand Prize in this year’s Pillsbury Bake-Off. Oh, and she also won an [...]

21 March 2008

Counting down the last days of home baking: Butter Brickle Biscotti

In approximately 7 days, there will be no more baking or broiling or simmering or sauteing in my house.
This is because in approximately 7 days my kitchen will be in shambles.
I’ve been wanting to remodel the usable but not very attractive kitchen in my 60-year-old home since I moved in about 5 years ago. Now [...]