Cookies

In my humble opinion as a food writer, there is no finer cookie, especially for making at home, than chocolate chip.…

Sometime back in October, my husband and I began a nightly ritual of watching the news in bed with cookies—namely,…

For someone with a sweet tooth who demands instant gratification and gets bored with extended baking projects, there…

Have you ever noticed how the best gifts are usually things you never asked for or never even knew that you wanted?…

If you’re planning on treating Santa to a gorgeous platter of Pepperidge Farm Milanos this year, make sure you have…

In December, cookies become an official food group. Even if we don’t have the convenient excuse of holiday parties,…

Honestly, I did not think that judging The Takeout’s First Annual Holiday Cookie Contest would be as difficult as it…

Listen, I’m not gonna kick a holiday cookie out of bed. Give me a spread of festive desserts, tuck a napkin into my…

During the holiday cookie season, when everyone is adding fifteen different nuggets of things to giant cookies, or…

Let’s just get this out of the way: I have a lot of opinions about Hanukkah desserts. First, gelt is disgusting.…

In retrospect, I got into baking Anise Drops for all the wrong reasons. I was looking for a low-maintenance cookie,…

Sugar plums. Jingle bells. Santa’s big ol’ swinging bag. These are all perfectly innocent aspects of holiday lore…

I love me an oatmeal cookie. Sure, sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies are divine, I’ll grant you that. But…

I did not grow up in a cookie-baking household. Slice-and-bake Toll House cookies were the norm, and I still think…

My teenage Anglophilia started with music—The Smiths, New Order, The Wedding Present—and quickly spread to sweets,…

Now’s the time of the year, with the nights at their longest and darkest and the end of the year reckoning drawing…

Update, December 3, 2020: Only 33 hours left to submit to The Takeout’s 2020 holiday cookie contest! Consider this…

For a seemingly simple baked good, holiday cookies sure can be tricky. Even the most confident cake bakers can be…

As a semi-functional adult, I know that I’m supposed to be eating way more fruit than I do, and probably less cake.…