Psst! Wanna Know a Secret?

About a year ago, I finally cracked the elusive secret to His Lordship’s favorite cookies, the honey, apricot and pecan ones I blogged about a few years before that. At the time, I was celebrating the fact that I was just this-close to perfection, but frankly, that last little inch of close-but-no-cigar continued to [...]

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The Return of Sunday Baking: German Chocolate Cupcakes

I won’t even bother with the usual feeble attempt at excusing the lags in blogging. Let’s just look at the pretty picture and forget all about it, OK? Right, moving on…
This lovely little morsel evolved out of my interest in this recipe, which I ran across mid-week and knew I wanted to try [...]

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Sunday Night Cookie Blogging: Memory Quest Edition

When we were students, His Lordship and I used to frequent a bakery that specialized in cookies, not high-impact cookies like tuiles or madeleines, but homey, chock-full-of-bits variations on the basic chocolate chip cookie. They were all unassumingly wonderful, but there was one for which His Lordship, who can otherwise take or leave desserts, would [...]

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Sunday Night Cookie Blogging

For some reason, I always develop a mad desire to bake on Sundays. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to stave off Monday for a little longer, or perhaps it’s just that Sundays are the only day of the week I really have the leisure to bake, since Saturdays are usually taken up with errands and [...]

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