Gingerbread Stamped Cookies

Gingerbread Stamped Cookies

Few recipes are as evocative of the holiday season as gingerbread cookies! Gingerbread appears around the holidays in many forms, from thin and crispy cookie varieties to sturdy candy-decorated houses to iced gingerbread men. I’ve had to wrap my head around the idea of gingerbread because I naively thought that there was only one kind [...]

Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies

Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies

It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! And normally I don’t observe any of these new food holidays celebrated all over the Internet, but…chocolate chip cookies are actually my most favorite cookie of all time. The first time I baked something in the US, it was chocolate chip cookies. I had heard about this American classic [...]

Strawberry-Orange Macaroons

Strawberry-Orange Macaroons

Who doesn’t like coconut? Coconut is one of those foods that is so immensely versatile that it can be used in desserts and savory dishes alike. I am amazed that one fruit can be transformed into: cream of coconut, coconut oil, coconut flakes, coconut milk, and coconut water, producing an almost infinite number of dishes [...]