December 24, 2010 
Joan 
Baking certain cookies signals the beginning of the Christmas season. For me, it’s Nut Butter Balls, otherwise known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, Nut Crescents or Russian Tea Cakes. Lots of butter, powdered sugar, ground nuts, flour and vanilla, rolled into
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Cookies of Good Fortune
China Moon Cookbook's recipes recreate the vibrant East-meets-West cuisine served at Barbara Tropp's innovative China Moon Cafe in San Francisco in the 1990s. Baking China Moon's "Cookies of Good Fortune" is an annual tradition—so easy, so delicious, they've been
Less Fruity Fruitcake
Fruitcake. Although much maligned, I love these holiday loaves. I know I may be ostracized from this, our 21st century American society, for saying so. But I just can’t help it. Molasses being one of my favorite baking ingredients, I
Whoopie Pies (aka Pies of Whoop)
Whoopie Pies are everywhere these days. But I’d never heard of them until I opened up Nancy Baggett’s The All-American Cookie Book, shortly after it arrived in 2002. The picture was irresistible—especially to my then five-year-old son. I figured little
Apple Pie Weather
We're well into Autumn, and that means apple pie weather. Crisp breezes, blue skies, frenetic squirrels and Michigan apples piled high at the markets, command that I dig out my all-time favorite apple pie recipe and get baking. Blue Ribbon
