My formula for making friends is simple: Bring cookies and Monopoly Deal. First comes the cookie part. It’s nearly impossible to find anyone who dislikes a good cookie. Cookies equal childhood; they equal cold nights and cozy rooms; they equal tradition and simplicity; and they equal good old fashioned fun. Over the years, I have…
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Valentine’s Day with Doughbies
This Valentine’s Day, the best way to express your affection, whether in friendship or relationship form, is with Doughbies. I first experienced Doughbies a year ago when a fresh batch of snickerdoodles showed up at my office and were annihilated within thirty minutes. The cookies arrived exactly as they should be eaten – nearly straight…
Mast Brothers Chocolate Chunk Buckwheat Cookies
I gotta say, I spent the first few days of the new year feeling like it was 2015s instead of 2016. But with the Coachella lineup out (TWO chances to see Diplo in one weekend?!), Mexico for the next five days, and these hunky chunky cookies, everything is looking good! In January, the whole world…
Recipe: Cardamom Sablé Cookies
Oh February – the month of love, flowers, chocolate, and cheesiness. From those four characteristics, I fall for three, and flowers get left in the dust. I know it sounds kind of awful to dislike flowers, but I never know what to do with them. I’m terrible at taking care of them, as I am…
RECIPE: Dark Chocolate-Candied Ginger-Peppermint-Pretzel Cookies
DAMN. Say that three times fast. Or just once fast. It’s still difficult. But believe me when I say that these cookies are gonna rock your world almost as much as Drake headlining Coachella 2015 is rocking my world. I mean, I’m about to scream “HYFR” at the SAME time that DRAKE is SINGING it….