Savory cookies.

I have a professional crush on Dorie Greenspan, I’ll admit it—and not because her hair is cuter and even shorter than mine. Her feature in the November issue of Food and Wine, The Cookie Canapé, is …

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A family of cooks.

I come from a long line of cooks. My paternal grandmother was a confident home cook known for pies and comfort food; my maternal grandmother still preserves summer produce and has taught me about canning, pie …

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Peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookies.

I volunteered to bring cookies—lots of them—to Grandma’s 90th birthday fête this weekend. I had in mind to bake old-fashioned kinds of cookies; nothing too swishy, but rather the types of cookies she might have made …

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Almond-butter cookies.

My love of peanut butter runs deep, twined in the double-helixes of my DNA. I know this because my beloved grandfather never turned down a handfulorthree of peanuts. Family lore has it that he favored peanut …

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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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