Month: July 2025

Every baker has a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, one they always go back to no matter how many other chocolate chip cookie recipes they may take for a test spin. This Chocolate Chipper Champs recipe was exactly that for my mother. I’m not sure exactly when she started...

For as long as I can remember, my mother baked. Her mother, my grandmother, was well known for her baking (particularly her wedding and anniversary cakes, but also her pies, cookies and, of course, her fudge), so you might say baking was in my mother’s blood. When my siblings...

I am an absolute sucker for a good cheesecake. By “good cheesecake” I mean a tall, dense, insanely creamy, lightly tangy, rich custard atop a buttery, crispy, crunchy, sweet graham cracker crust. I cannot even begin to tell you how many cheesecake recipes I’ve have made over the years...

S’mores are the archetypal American summer dessert – graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows are de rigueur for every event at which a firepit might be found, from camping to backyard barbeques, and have been since the mid 1920’s. Over the years, the S’mores flavor combination has made its way...

Peanut butter cookies are a classic for a reason. They are simple, straight forward, and packed with bold peanut flavor and plenty of nostalgia. Recipes for peanut cookies first appeared in the early 1900’s with the first recipe(s) being attributed to George Washington Carver in his book How to...