Brown Butter Caramelized White Chocolate Cookies
and the BEST ginger molasses cookies. ever.
Oh I’m so proud of these! I’m always hesitant to take on a beloved classic because I feel like I’m better at the ‘spin ons’, but somehow my ‘spins’ may have turned these into something iconic…
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Brown Butter Ginger Molasses Cookies
Shortly after I had my first, some friends brought me a bag of TJ’s ginger molasses. I’d never enjoyed a bag of cookies as I did that day. TJ’s stopped selling them the year after and I have been dreaming about them since. I’ve tried so many recipes but never quite felt that same satisfaction for a cookie that was completely chewy all over but had that signature ‘bite’ of spice from ginger. So, I created this classic cookie in a not so classic way - and they’re amazing. I implore you to try them.
more molasses
Chocolate Molasses Cookies
Molasses cookies sans the ginger and spices but with dutch cocoa powder, for a beautiful cookie that hits that note between bitter molasses and sweet chocolate just perfectly. Chewy and crinkly, as they should be.
more crinkles please
Magic in the Middles
A brown sugar cocoa cookie with peanut butter in the dough, and a dollop of sweetened peanut butter in the center. You take a bite, and it’s like… magic!
a bit of gold
Rye Brownie Cookies with CWC
Brownie cookies but let’s level up the flavors with rye flour (not a must, you could use AP) and not just white chocolate but chocolate slow toasted until the sugars caramelize and turn the flavor butterscotchy.
updated
How to Caramelize White Chocolate
Turn your too-sweet, kinda one note tasting white chocolate into the most delicious thing ever. Now with clearer instructions and a video.
reader review =)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
“I made this pie for someone for Thanksgiving and it was SO good! What a classy and elevated version of my least favorite dessert (chocolate pie). I didn’t have a tart pan so I used a standard 9-inch pie pan and it worked great! I just couldn’t fit all of the filling since the pan wasn’t as deep. But that’s ok because I layered the ganache and peanut butter whip and we ate it as a dessert dip with various holiday cookies! If anything, I’ll probably make the filling a hundred times over as a fun holiday treat. Great recipe!” - Courtney
notes & reads
I’m in the WashPo! The publication does a holiday cookie special every year and I was lucky enough to be asked to submit a recipe for 2023. After going over several ideas (at least a few had curd in them, you know me lol) we settled on these: a brown butter pistachio shortbread with a pomegranate glaze. (Because I’m a subscriber, that’s a gift link that will give you access to the recipe but I can’t make the rest of the cookie recipes accessible.) If you make mine, let me know how it goes please =)
Last year I was lucky enough to be on the receiving end of a cookie exchange that had Anita of Wild Thistle Kitchen sending me a batch of her Gingerbread Caramel Thumbprint Cookies . They were soooo good, highly recommend for your cookie boxes/trading.
“For a given episode, depending on the script, (Lara) MacLean will bake, on average, two dozen cookies. There’s no oven large enough at Sesame’s New York workplace, so MacLean does almost everything at home.” Turns out the cookies being ‘chaotically chowed down’ by our favorite blue monster are real - NYT.
NYT also published their holiday cookie special and there' is one that has caught my eye: Samantha Seneviratne’s Technicolor Cookies. I just know my rainbow obsessed girls would love the colors so those are going to happen asap.
“…how did the concept of ringing in the holidays with intricately decorated sweets come to be? Like most traditions now associated with Christmas, it's partially borrowed from winter solstice festivals. During these celebrations, Ancient Germanic people would feast as a way of both celebrating the "Earth's rebirth" and fortifying for the cold months ahead.” - Salon (my favorite line from the article: “It's a culinary space that's long been simultaneously defined by reverence for tradition and a desire for little innovations, meaning there's still plenty of space for you to make your mark on this year's cookie swap.” )
and for members
Brown Butter Caramelized White Chocolate Cookies
Two of the most delicious ingredients in the world get together and make an insane cookie: brown butter and caramelized white chocolate. The cookie dough itself is made with brown butter and melted white chocolate, it’s a chewy very unique tasting cookie where the usual caramel notes of a ccc are accentuated by the cwc and the nutty brown butter. Studded with chunks of more cwc, it’s a chocolate chunk cookie with an unmatched flavor profile.