General Information
Baking Tip: Ingredient Temperatures in Baking
Baking Better Cookies Through Chemistry (how flour, sugar, etc. affect cookie type)
Tips for Making Chewier Cookies
Homemade Caramel Sauce from Sweetened Condensed Milk
Creaming Butter & Sugar Method (& importance of ingredients at room temperature, adding eggs 1 at a time)
The Importance of Resting Cookie Dough
Mistakes Made When Baking Cookies
Substitutions
Sour Milk Substitution (in recipes)
Buttermilk Substitution (in recipes)
Making Milk from Powdered Milk (including sour milk, condensed milk & evaporated milk)
+Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk
Seasonal Cookies
Cookies for the Fall
Cookie History
Types of Cookies
Shortbread-type Cookies
The Key to Crinkly Top Cookies
Ingredients
Types of Sugar & other Sweeteners
Toasted Sugar (caramel flavor)
Drop Cookies
Traditional American Drop Cookies
*+Mom's Chocolate Chip Cookies (& variations)
Alton Brown's "The Thin" chocolate chip cookie at FoodNetwork
Milk Chocolate Macadamia Nut Coconut Cookies
*Oatmeal Raisin Nut Cookies (var: Oatmeal Scotchies, Cranberry & white chocolate)
+Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies (low fat)
Lowfat Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cowboy Cookies (oatmeal type cookie w/ nuts, coconut, etc.)
Ranger Cookies (almost exactly the same as Cowboy Cookies except uses puffed rice)
*Soft Sour Cream Cookies (Pennsylvania Dutch Sugar Cookies)
*Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
+Jane's Soft Molasses Cookies (uses vinegar)
Other Drop Cookies
Zucchini Cookies (choc. chips. coconut, etc.)
Amaretti (Italian almond macaroons)
+Jane's Forgotten Kisses (meringue type)
Other Bars
Almond Bars (made w/ almond paste)
Banana Bars w/ Cream Cheese Frosting
*Hello Dollies (easy)
Millionaire's Shortbread Bars (shortbread topped with caramel, chocolate & peanuts)
Shortbread
Lemon Cookies (shortbread-like)
Holiday Shortbread (brown sugar)
Bar Cookies
Types of Brownies: Fudgy, Chewy, & Cakey
The Palmer House Brownie & the History of Brownies
Chocolate Brownies
Types of Brownies: Fudgy, Chewy, & Cakey
The Palmer House Brownie (the original brownie)
Fannie Farmer's 1906 Brownie recipe
Cook's Illustrated Classic Brownies
+Midnight Fudge Brownies (Jane's low fat)
White Chocolate & Macadamia Nut Brownies
Sour Cherry Brownies (w/ hazelnuts)
Black Forest Brownies (white chocolate chunks & Kirsch soaked cherries)
German Chocolate Brownies (coconut pecan topping)
Blondies & Other Brownies
Hazelnut Brownies (made w/ Nutella)
Refrigerator Cookies
Mom's Refrigerator Oatmeal Cookies
Double Dark Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
Cookies made w/ Yeast
Kolaczki (Polish pastry-type Holiday cookies)
Deep-fried Cookies
Krusczyki (Polish Xmas Cookie)
Norwegian Rosettes (requires Rosette iron)
Klejner (Danish Diamonds)
Struffoli (Italian Honey Balls)
Crostoli (Italian fried cookie)
Italian Zeppole
No Bake
*+Mom's Chocolate No Bake Cookies (oatmeal, coconut; plus, Nutella variation)
*Chocolate Butterscotch No-Bakes (chow mein noodles)
+Haystacks (chocolate, chow mein noodles)
*Christel's Sweet & Salty No Bake Peanut Butter Bars (pretzels)
"Rice Krispies" Marshmallow Treats
Crispy Chocolate-Marshmallow Treats
Cheerio Treats (peanut butter, marshmallows, M&Ms)
No-Bake Butterscotch-Pretzel Bars
Mock Butterfingers (chocolate, peanut butter, cornflakes)
Chocolate Salami (salame di cioccolato) w/ pretzel & peanut variation
Formed & Molded Cookies
Formed into Balls
+Hazel's Snickerdoodles (cinnamon & sugar)
Peanut Butter Blossoms (Hershey's Kisses)
Homemade Reese's Cookies (Hershey's Peanut Butter Cups)
Cinnamon Roll Cookies (cinnamon & white chocolate chips)
Pecan Pie Cookies
Thumbprint Cookies
Salted Caramel Turtle Thumbprint Cookies
Nutella Sea Salt Thumbprints
Coconut Thumbprints
Tuile-Style Cookies
Florentines (lace cookies)
Cookies Requiring Molds
Chocolate-Filled Walnut Cookies
Cream Horns
Waffle-type Cookies
Pizzelles (Italian Wafer Cookies - requires special iron)
Copycat Recipes
Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints
Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas (a.k.a. Caramel de-Lites)
Girl Scout Cookies: Do-si-dos (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies)
Formed into Balls (con't)
Tea Cakes
*+Mom's Russian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes)
Coconut Snowball Cookies
Piped Cookies
Sandwich Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies: Do-si-dos (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies)
Chocolate-Filled Walnut Cookies (requires a mold)
Chocolate Hazelnut Cutout Cookies (Nutella)
Filled Cookies
Holiday Cookies
100 Years of Christmas Cookies
Easter Cookies
Christmas Cakes
Panettone (Italy)
Bûche de Noël (France)
Grandma Fickelscherer's Christmas Cookies
*Grandma Fickelscherer's Christmas Cookies (Anise flavored)
Grandma Fickelscherer's Harthorn Cut-out Cookies
Mom's Traditional Christmas Cookies
*+Mom's Russian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes)
*+Mom's Spritz Cookies (requires cookie press)
Christmas Specialty Cookies
Christmas Cookie Tree Ornaments
Stained Glass Cookie Ornaments
Other Holiday Cookies
Nutmeg Bites (w/ rum frosting from King Arthur Flour)
Holiday & Other Cutouts
*+Grandma Radloff's Butterscotch Holiday Cookies
*Grandma Fickelscherer's Christmas Cookies (Anise flavored)
Grandma Fickelscherer's Harthorn Cut-out Cookies
+Jane's Sour Cream Cut-Out Cookies
+Jane's Gingerbread Cutout Cookies
+Jane's Spicy Molasses Cut-Out Cookies
Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies (from Tartine cookbook)
Linzer Cookies
Frostings & Glazes for Cutouts
+Jane's Frostings & Glazes for Cutout Cookies
Cookie Glaze (dries hard & shiny, corn syrup)
Painted Cookies (painted before baking)
Jane's Christmas Cookies
Red Velvet Crinkles (version of Chocolate Crinkles)
+Jane's Forgotten Kisses (meringue type)
+Santa's Whiskers (Haystacks, No Bake)
+Green Corn Flake Holly (No Bake - great cookie plate decoration)
+Jane's Sour Cream Cut-Out Cookies
+Jane's Gingerbread Cutout Cookies
+Jane's Spicy Molasses Cut-Out Cookies
Susan's Christmas Cookies
*Grandma Fickelscherer's Christmas Cookies (Anise flavored)
Faith's Christmas Cookies (plus Mom's Christmas Cookies)
*Neapolitan Cookies (Venetians)
*Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
*Soft Sour Cream Cookies (Sugar Cookies, Brian's favorite)
*Finska Pinnar (Finish Fingers - almonds & chocolate)
*Chocolate Dipped Coconut Shortbread
Christel's Christmas Cookies
International Cookies
German Holiday Cookies
German Gingerbread (Lebkuchen)
Mom's Lebkuchen (rolled dough)
Nuremberg Lebkuchen (softer gingerbread)
Elisen gingerbread w/ marzipan & rum
*+Mom's Spritz Cookies (requires cookie press)
+Chocolate Spritz Cookies (requires cookie press)
Almond Spritz (requires cookie press)
Mom's Springerle (anise flavored, requires Springerle molds or rolling pin)
Authentic German Springerle (discusses the use of hartshorn)
Mom's Pfeffernuesse ("Peppernuts," coated in confectioner's sugar)
Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Stars)
Mandelschnitten (Almond Slices)
Spekulatius (Dutch Windmill Cookies)
Polish Holiday Cookies
Kolaczki (pastry made w/ yeast or cream cheese)
Krusczyki (Polish Bowtie Cookies - deep fried)
Czechoslovakia Cookies
Jewish Holiday Cookies
Ukrainian
Khrustyky (deep-fried)
Holiday Cookies from Great Britain
Italian Cookies
*Italian Anisette Cookies (Biscotti)
Pelligrino Artusi's Biscotti (1891)
Amaretti (almond macaroons)
Ricciarelli (almond cookies)
Pizzelles (Italian Wafer Cookies - requires special iron)
Florentines (lace cookies)
Aginetti (Italian Lemon Drop Cookies)
Crostoli (fried cookie)
Brutti Ma Bouni (merinque-type cookie w/ hazelnuts)
Cuccidati (Italian Fig Cookies)
Italian Ricotta Cookies
Torcetti (yeast)
Mexican Cookies
Chinese Cookies
Greek Holiday Cookies
Kourabiedes (Greek Almond Crescents)
Melomakarona (olive oil cookies dipped in honey syrup, dusted with nuts)
Austrian Cookies
Belgian Cookies
Pain d’Amande (Belgian Almond Cookie)
Dutch Cookies
*Speculaas (Dutch Windmill Cookies)
Finish Holiday Cookies
*Finska Pinnar (Finish Fingers - almonds & chocolate)
Scandinavian (Denmark, Norway & Sweden)
Seven-item Scandinavian Cookie Plate
Scandinavian Fika (coffee break)
Swedish Dream Cookies - Traditional (Drömmar)
Swedish Dream Cookies w/ Coconut
Bruna Kakor (or Brunscrackers)
Klejner (Danish Diamonds - deep fried)
Sarah Bernhardt Cookies (Denmark)
Norwegian Rosettes (requires Rosette iron)
French Cookies
Milano Cookies (Pepperidge Farms)
Madeleines (small sponge cakes)
Sables (French Butter Cookies)
Palmiers
Pain d’Amande (Belgian Almond Cookie)
Jules Destrooper Almond Thins (Belgium)
