Bar cookies are my favorite of the cookie family.  I have a tiny apartment oven and I am prone to clutter.  This means most varieties of cookies are not ideal because I can’t fit as many in the oven at once, can’t see them cooking, and can’t find enough clear surfaces to cool them on […]

Kris Kringle Cranberry Coins One of my favorite cookie combinations is a tart, dense dried fruit paired with a rich, buttery shortbread.  In a nutshell, these cranberry shortbread coin cookies.  I wanted to send some Delicious Mail to my cousin Jaime in Mississippi, so I needed a cookie that would hold up for the journey.  […]

(Thistle and Stag platter from tamallama) You don’t have to look any further than Girl Scout cookies to see that Americans woefully under-appreciate the simplest of cookies…the shortbread.  Can you even name which one is the shortbread?  Probably not.  Girl Scout Trefoils (aha – the one with the faces on it) account for only 9% of […]