Banish Cookie Boredom With Strawberry and Feta Cookies
Sometimes, when a new food comes along, I have a jaded reaction. Especially when it’s a viral cookie recipe, which is sometimes too mediocre to warrant the hype, if I’m…
12 Holiday Cookie Recipes With Five Ingredients or Fewer
Photo: Wollertz (Shutterstock) Walk into any Italian bakery and, no matter what your original intention was, look for the pignoli cookie first. It may not be as flashy as the…
Turn (Almost) Any Store-Bought Cookie Into a Truffle
I bought my first food processor while I was still in college, working towards a chemistry degree that would get far less use than the appliance. One of the first…
Do This Now to Get a Head Start on Your Holiday Baking
Photo: Kara Gebhardt (Shutterstock) For the average cookie-eating month, it’s perfectly sensible to keep a few pre-scooped cookies in the freezer for when you want a quick, freshly baked chocolate…
Skeleton Cookies Are the New Gingerbread
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann What’s possibly better than cookies shaped like smartly dressed humans in candy couture? Skeleton cookies with white chocolate bones. This chocolate version of a gingerbread cookie…
This Is the Best Way to Scoop Your Drop Cookies
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann All cookies are beautiful just the way they are. As one of my top three favorite things, I’ll almost never turn down a cookie, and certainly…
We Should Be Eating More Savory Cookies
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Snacking is crucial. I need a wide variety of snacks to keep me happy and functioning every day. Nothing wild—popcorn, gummy bears, hummus and crackers, maybe…
The Easy Way to Roll Your Dough Into the Shape You Actually Need
Photo: GreenArt (Shutterstock) If only pie recipes asked you to roll the dough into an amoeba shape. I’m excellent at that one. But perfect circles or rectangles of dough? That…
Make Five Festive Christmas Cookies From One Simple Dough
The last three weeks have been a whirlwind of peppermint mochas, ugly sweaters, Secret Santas, and cookie exchanges. Even though you’ve baked dozens of treats and eaten your body weight…
TIL you can use a Play-Doh Fun Factory as a cookie press
Not a huge fan of the anthropomorphic Play-Doh tub, to be honestPhoto: Marnie Shure Today I LearnedToday I LearnedToday I Learned is a feature where The Takeout writers share something…