Valentine’s Day cut-out cookies.

What could be more perfect than sharing the love with your sweetie, your family and your co-workers by way of a batch of heart-shaped cutout cookies? Why, frosting them with buttercream icing, of course! This butter …

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A better Christmas fruitcake (cookie).

I don’t love fruitcake, but I’ve always loved fruitcake cookies. I recall making them as a kid, using a recipe from a special-edition holiday cooking magazine. I’ve no idea what happened to that Christmas fruitcake cookie …

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Pecan dream cookies.

When it comes to cookies, I generally have a type. If I were to sign up for a cookie-dating service, these are the characteristics I’d put into my profile: Not too sweet. Not overly complicated. Light …

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Brown butter shortbread cookies.

It’s a rare recipe that’s as easy as it is fantastic, and this is one of them: brown butter brown sugar shorties. Don’t be put off by the task of browning butter; do it once, and …

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Fall cut-out cookies.

My colleague Grace has mad baking skills and comes from an impressive line of bakers. So when we finally got a dose of baking weather recently (it’s been a long, hot summer well into October), she …

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