How to Make Coconut Tuiles Recipe
My dad has a thing for coconut sweets. He even buys Almond Joy to give out at Halloween, knowing that the rest of us won’t eat them. So when he found this recipe for coconut tuiles, a sort of curved...
View ArticleHow to Make Cream Cheese Pecan Cookies Recipe
How many baking days are there left before Christmas? If you are still looking for good cookies to bake for a holiday platter, I urge you to give these cream cheese pecan cookies a whirl. The cookie...
View ArticleHow to Make Heath Bar Cookies Recipe
“OMG, these are the best cookies I’ve ever eaten in my life,” I mumbled to mom the other day, mouth full of cookie, one hand reaching for another. “Would you please get the recipe from Claire?...
View ArticleHow to Make Molasses Spice Cookies Recipe
Molasses spice cookies are sort of like ginger snaps except bigger and chewy. The recipe for these cookies comes from Cook’s Illustrated’s The Best Recipe cookbook. Here’s a hint on preparation – don’t...
View ArticleHow to Make Pecan Meringue Cookies Recipe
A reader of Simply Recipes recently left a comment on our Pavlova recipe with a recipe for what she calls “Easter Cookies” (called “Resurrection cookies” by another reader). The commenter, Linda,...
View ArticleHow to Make Peppermint Meringue Cookies Recipe
Whenever I make ice cream from scratch, we usually have lots of leftover egg whites to use up. Meringues (or as my nephew calls them, “little pavlovas”) are little cookies made with basically just egg...
View ArticleHow to Make Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Several months ago we attempted a New York Times recipe for a lemon confit shortbread tart. Like fellow food-blogger Deb, we had a miserable experience with the recipe. It was just too tart to eat....
View ArticleHow to Make Spritz Cookies Recipe
This cookie is my other favorite Christmas cookie, along with walnut snowballs. I am sure my mum made all kinds of Christmas cookies over the years, but none were as memorable as these two. Spritz, she...
View ArticleHow to Make Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
It’s as if Santa himself had just poked his head through the fireplace. The boys, my young neighbors, dissected and demolished the ones they had each picked out to eat. It was all I could do to keep...
View ArticleHow to Make Sugar Cookies Recipe
When looking for good recipes for sugar cookies, I turned to my dear friend and Alabama native, Steve-Anna. She gave me two family favorites and we each picked a batch to make. Steve-Anna takes cookie...
View ArticleHow to Make Walnut Snowball Cookies Recipe
This was my all-time favorite Christmas cookie when I was growing up. Mum made them by the bushel, and we’d pop the walnut-sized balls into our mouths as fast as she made them. So fast that I got...
View ArticleHow to Make Apple Cobbler Recipe
For years, this apple cobbler recipe has been one of my father’s “signature” apple dishes (knowing my dad, bemused by the thought of his having a “signature” anything, he would probably agree to this...
View ArticleHow to Make Apple Cranberry Currant Crumble Pie Recipe
They say that as you get older you develop more of a sweet tooth. If my parents are any test of this theory, I would have to say, yes this does indeed seem to be true. When my siblings and I were kids...
View ArticleHow to Make Apple Crisp Recipe
Apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, butter and oats? Welcome to the essential ingredients of the apple crisp, one of the most simple and easy of apple desserts. To make an apple crisp one layers sliced...
View ArticleHow to Make Apricot Berry Cobbler Recipe
My friend Suzanne has been coming over a lot recently, helping my mother and me raid my next door neighbor Pat’s Blenheim apricot tree (with Pat’s blessing of course). Suzanne has 3 growing teenagers...
View ArticleHow to Make Baked Apples Recipe
It’s apple season here in New England, where I am visiting my goddaughter and her family. We went apple picking a few days ago and came home with so many apples, we’ll be cooking with them all week....
View ArticleHow to Make Berry Almond Crumble Recipe
My dessert obsessed father was at it again today; he just couldn’t resist this berry crumble recipe he found in the New York Times. He used fresh strawberries, blueberries, and some of our frozen...
View ArticleHow to Make Berry and Banana Terrine Recipe
This berry and banana terrine is an easy and beautiful way to serve summer berries with bananas for added sweetness. Think Jello but packed with fruit. And instead of neon artificial colored Jello, you...
View ArticleHow to Make Berry Cobbler with Coconut Walnut Topping Recipe
Not much that grows in our garden is available for picking in the spring. The first sign that the summer season is upon us and that the parade of glorious fruit is about to begin is when the...
View ArticleHow to Make Berry Tart Recipe
Every year the mother of my best friend from high school invites me to her 4th of July party. Mrs. Mull knows I like to cook so she encourages me, “Of course you’ll bring something wonderful to the...
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