Last December, my sister called me in tears — not the happy kind. She had spent an entire Saturday baking her famous lemon sandwich cookies, packaged them in a pretty tin, and shipped them to our cousin across the country. They arrived as a box of lemon-scented crumbs. If you have ever experienced that exact … Read more
A few years ago, my college roommate called me in tears — not sad tears, but the kind that come from laughing too hard. She had just opened the cookie care package ideas I’d spent an entire Sunday assembling: a beautiful tin of decorated sugar cookies, carefully wrapped in tissue paper, nestled in a Priority … Read more
A few years ago, my cousin called me in tears. She had ordered a box of my famous brown butter snickerdoodles as a birthday gift for her daughter in Portland — and they arrived as crumbs. Not broken cookies. Actual, sandy crumbs rattling around at the bottom of a crushed box. That moment crystallized exactly … Read more
A few years ago, my aunt called me in tears — happy tears, she insisted — because the box of cookies I’d shipped her for her birthday had arrived as a pile of crumbs and broken shards. I had sent delicate sandwich cookies packed in tissue paper. They looked beautiful when I packed them. They … Read more
It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2019 when I finally cracked the code on freezing cookie dough properly for fresh cookies on demand. My sister had called in a panic — she needed three dozen cookies for her office party the next morning. I walked to my freezer, pulled out a bag of pre-portioned chocolate … Read more
The first time I brought an edible cookie dough dip party recipe to a gathering, I watched a full bowl disappear in eleven minutes flat. It was my neighbor Kim’s housewarming in the fall of 2018, and I had nearly not made it — I almost brought brownies instead. Something told me to go rogue. … Read more
Every Christmas Eve, my family argues about dessert. My brother-in-law wants cheesecake. My mother insists on pie. My teenagers vote for literally anything chocolate. In 2021, I set out a tray of my cookie dough truffles chocolate dipped recipe — and the argument stopped cold. Everyone went quiet, reached for a second one, and completely … Read more
The first time I made safe to eat cookie dough heat treated flour was Christmas Eve 2019, and honestly, it was out of desperation. My daughter Sofia had been sneaking spoonfuls of raw dough all afternoon, and instead of fighting a losing battle, I decided to make her something she could eat freely. I had … Read more
I’ll be honest — when a reader first emailed me asking about everything bagel seasoning cookies savory style, I laughed out loud at my kitchen counter. It was January 2022, and I had just finished a three-week deep dive into brown butter shortbread variations. Savory cookies felt like a distraction. Then I made one batch … Read more
My husband, David, has never once asked me to make him a chocolate chip cookie. In fifteen years of marriage and thousands of cookies cooling on my kitchen counter, the man consistently reaches past the dessert tray and straight for whatever savory thing I happen to be testing. So when I developed these cheddar black … Read more
