Margaret Chen · August 6, 2026
My grandmother’s peanut butter cookie recipe lives on a stained, dog-eared index card in a plastic recipe box—the same one she’s kept since 1978. The handwriting is hers: crisp, practical, unadorned. Butter. Peanut butter. Sugar. Brown sugar. Egg. Vanilla. Flour. Baking soda. Salt. Fourteen words of ingredients, and a set of instructions so spare they … Read more
Margaret Chen · August 6, 2026
If you’ve read my recipe for bakery-style oatmeal cookies without raisins, you already know I developed that one specifically for the raisin-haters in my life—and there are more of them than I expected. I stand by that recipe completely. It’s been tested dozens of times, and it delivers exactly what it promises: a chewy, buttery … Read more
Margaret Chen · August 3, 2026
I’ve published dozens of sugar cookie recipes on this site—from my Moroccan orange-zest ghriba to my cream-cheese-stuffed pillows—yet I realized I never wrote down the one dough I return to most often. That feels like a strange gap. For fifteen years, I’ve been testing cookie recipes in my home kitchen, and this classic sugar cookie … Read more
Margaret Chen · August 3, 2026
I’ve spent the last fifteen years developing cookie recipes, and I’ve published dozens of them on this site. Brown butter chocolate chip. Vegan chocolate chip. Gluten-free chocolate chip. Matcha white chocolate. Nutella-stuffed. Each one has its moment, its reason to exist. But every single week, readers ask me the same question: “Where is your classic … Read more
