cookies

My daughter is a Daisy Scout.  (A Daisy is the early stages of Girl Scouts.) It's so cute, really.  She's got a blue vest with a Girl Scout pin. And she already has a few patches. I mean, I was a Brownie when I was young so I expected her to ...

Yesterday I was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Well, it wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t good either. Then I checked my email and found two sweet messages left on some old posts. Comments are always nice, but especially when someone takes the time to come back and say how...

Did you know May 15th is National Chocolate Chip Day? Yup, there is a whole holiday to celebrate the wonderful little morsels of goodness! Some claim that the first chocolate chips were created in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield when she chopped up chocolate and then baked those pieces into cookies. Two years later,...

Remember when I posted my mom's banana bread recipe a few days ago? And I talked about how that batter is the best raw batter ever (if you're into being a batter connoisseur, which I am)? I mentioned the #2 slot would go to a cookie recipe I'd post soo...

I received a request to make a gluten-free version of Richard Ruskell’s Food Network Challenge molten chocolate chip cookies. The recipe only contains a small amount of flour, so it seemed pretty simple. I swapped it out for Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free all-purpose baking flour (a combination of garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, tapioca flour,...

I've wanted to try out chocolate sugar cookies for a long time, so when I thought about making cookies for Easter I decided to go for it. They do not disappoint! Super soft and chocolaty but not too sweet; they make a great pairing for the crunch and s...

It was play time in "Ruby's Kitchen" again . As a part of a barter with my middle daughter to draw a few new avatars for the blog, and to re-design it, I promised to bake cookies. Chocolate chip are her favorites, but often I find them a bit boring to make. Being who...

Potato Chip CookiesThese cookies are dangerous. I will not tell you how many I ate because it’s embarrassing. But I ate a LOT of them. It didn’t help that I had to make two batches. (Nice excuse.)I was intrigued by the idea of potato chip cookies w...

Yesterday I wrote about my experience at the Bazaar restaurant in Los Angeles. The reason we were in LA was actually because I won a hotel stay at the beautiful Montage Beverly Hills last year through a contest on Twitter! It was one of those things you enter and never dreaming of winning, so I was incredibly surprised (and excited!)...

Not only did Williams-Sonoma deliver with its spring and Easter-themed cookie cutter set, but the good folks in the WS Kitchen also provide a great cookie recipe. The cookie cutter kit was among a handful of kitchen gadgets reviewed in today's Food & ...