You know peanut butter blossoms? The wonderful peanut butter cookie with the Hershey Kiss in the center? Well move aside hard to eat peanut butter blossoms, I’ve replaced the hard Hershey kiss with a creamy ganache center and have made peanut butter ganache thumbprint cookies. read more

If you’re a fan of hazelnut, chocolate, and cookies, you are going to love these hazelnut sandwich cookies. These are essentially butter cookies with ground hazelnuts and then SANDWICHED with a hazelnut ganache. There’s nothing like the combination of hazelnuts and chocolate for the holidays. read more

What’s that? It’s only September? And I’m posting a Christmas cookie recipe? I guarantee you though, these ginger spice cookies can be enjoyed any time of the year. But let me tell you, I’ve been planning for Christmas cookies since July. I love thinking about read more

This chocolate hazelnut mandel bread is your morning coffee’s best friend. You may be thinking, hey that looks a lot like biscotti! And you’re right. This is a “Jewish biscotti”. The main difference is that oil is used instead of butter. It makes the crumb read more

I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. Like many suburbs of Chicago, there was a large Jewish population. My father’s side of the family is Jewish, but my mother’s side is Thai. However, my mom had a good Jewish friend who had a mandel read more

I have some exciting news. After 30 years of sitting on the shelf collecting dust, I finally convinced my mom to gift me her stand mixer. Oh and I have to clarify, she has used it 6 times. But I’ll probably use it 6 times read more

If I had to choose one dessert to eat for the rest of my life, it would be chocolate chip cookies. No matter what mood I’m in, a chocolate chip cookie will make it better. You can eat them with ice cream and they’re easy read more

These cookies are basically a brownie in cookie form. They’re also rolled in chopped pecans, filled with salted caramel, and topped with melted chocolate. It’s basically everything I love packed into a tiny cookie. I am actually not the biggest sweets person. Don’t get me read more

Growing up if you asked me what my favorite dessert was, I would say chocolate chip cookies. I was obsessed with chocolate chip cookies (with chocolate cake and ice cream as very strong runner ups). In a good mood? Eat chocolate chip cookies. Having a read more

Ever since my butter and sugar creaming dilemma was solved, I have been obsessed with making any cut out/shaped cookie I can find. I find these cookies to be so visually appealing. You can also make a pinwheel shape out of these cookies. The dough read more