I still remember the exact moment I fell in love with Moroccan orange cookies. It was a Tuesday afternoon in my kitchen—the kind of day when I’d been testing three different shortbread recipes and felt frankly exhausted by butter and sugar. A friend had just returned from Marrakech and handed me a small paper bag … Read more
I still remember the moment I realized I had been making butter cookies wrong for nearly a decade. It was February 2018, and I was standing in my kitchen staring at a batch of flat, greasy discs that were supposed to be French sablés. I had followed a recipe to the letter — or so … Read more
The first time I attempted a ma’amoul date filled cookies recipe was the winter of 2018, right before Eid al-Adha. A neighbor had gifted me a tin of homemade ma’amoul, and I ate three before I even reached my kitchen. The shell was crumbly in the most delicate way — somewhere between shortbread and semolina … Read more
