The chocolate chip cookie: it’s so simple, it’s difficult. I have searched high and low for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. The past several afternoons, in particular, I’ve occupied myself with chocolate chip cookie baking. Most recipes produced flat, crisp, and unsightly confections. With the crystallized air pockets, utter lack of flavor depth, flatness, and crisp texture plaguing each cookie, I was [...]
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Have you ever noticed that at Thanksgiving, pie is, without doubt, the most populous of all food species? Between Great Aunt Minnie’s apple pie, Grandma’s pumpkin pie, Mom’s pumpkin pie, and Sister-in-Law Susie’s no-bake pie, there are already more slices of pie than guests at the dinner table. There’s just something about pie. Everyone wants to bring it, everyone [...]
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The upcoming recipe might have you wondering, What’s the special occasion? Did I miss something? Is it Valentine’s Day already? Or maybe Christmas? Or somebody’s birthday? Okay, so it is Whitney Houston’s 47th birthday. It also would be Jean Piaget’s 114th birthday. 151 years ago, the elevator was patented. 100 years ago, Alva Fisher patented the [...]
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You know that classic question, “Am I the only one?” Well, am I the only one…that doesn’t like flat, crispy cookies? Let me tell you a little story. Yesterday I made cookies. Sounds like an innocent enough statement, no? And yet, these cookies just weren’t right. They were flat. They were crispy. And they were [...]
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Why is mini-ness so gosh darn cute? Miniature things seem have a lot more novelty than their regular-sized counterparts. Take, for instance, a muffin. Don’t get me wrong, the average muffin is pretty cool on its own. But it pales in comparison to the same muffin batter baked in a mini muffin tin. And muffins are just the [...]
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