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For my mom's birthday (which is today) I offered to bake her anything she liked. Always a butter cookie lover, she requested: A butter cookie that is partially dipped in chocolate. You know, like the old fashioned delicious cookies that bakeries used to make themselves before they bought them wholesale...

There are so many different types of chocolate chip cookies -- flat and crisp, puffy and cakey, the kinds you find in Italian bakeries, the kinds you get in cafeterias, the kinds you eat in your Mom's kitchen. This is a cookie you might find in a coffee house, or more likely, Jacques Torres'...

Several months ago, I fell in love with Peanut Butter & Co.'s Cinnamon Raisin Swirl . I can't fully explain it, but the combination of warm cinnamon, sweet raisins and savory peanut butter drove my taste buds delirious with happiness. For many a breakfast, I'd spread some on a slice of...

Chocolate chip cookies with a their friend, Carmelized Pineapple Upside-down Cake . I'm posting this before heading off to the gym, the first day of a renewed effort to lose the last 15 -- scratch that, 13.4 pounds -- to reach my goal weight. I'm kicking up my exercise regimen in the hopes that...

I used to date a man who loved the cocktail hour at wedding receptions; the combination of elegant mixed drinks with a panoply of carefully prepared finger foods proved too irresistible. Forget the cake, or the carefully plated fish-or-chicken entrees, the cocktail hour was where it's at. After last...

Sometimes, a cookie is so tasty that, even though you've planned to blog about it, you eat all the treats before you have a chance to take pictures. This is cookie falls into this category. On Saturday night, we had dinner with a few of the HWS students with whom we traveled to Russia . We had a...