Variations on Cooking

When I was living in Jackson Heights, I would stop by this bakery on the way home from the subway that had the best buttery amazing Rugelach in the world. One day on the when I stopped in to pick-up up a few the owner, Mel, I was talking and I said I would love to learn how to make them and he told me to stop by that Saturday and he would teach me. This is Mel's recipe - Enjoy Ingredients Dough 2 cups unbleached flour 2 sticks of butter diced, cold 1 cup of bread crumbs, un-

Here is a recipe from 2011- Now you can turn these into sandwich cookies, just frost and place another cookie on top. Ingredients 8oz of white chocolate 1 stick of unsalted butter 2 1/4 cups of unbleached all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons of baking powder pinch of salt 4 large eggs 2 cups of raw sugar 1 teaspoon of real vanilla extract 2 table spoons of red food coloring Powder sugar 4oz of cream cheese – soften 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/4 to a 1/3 cup heavy cream – it depends on

I received an email requesting this recipe, I had developed this back in 2010 and I had brought it to an office party. It is a pretty simple recipe. Now in the directions I note to keep the parchment paper on while icing, but last year I made these and precut them then iced them and everyone like the icing pouring down the sides - So you have two options for these cookies, bars - Enjoy Ingredients 4 cups of unbleached flour 1 1/4 cups of raw local honey 1 cup of raw sugar 1 c

Here is a repost of my Gingerbread Cookies with a Twist recipe from 2008. I had got the idea after week took a Victorian Cooking Class at ICE. - Enjoy Ingredients 3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 3/4 cup of raw local honey 3/4 cup raw dark brown sugar 1/2 cup of almonds 1/2 cup candied fruit 1 large egg 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground clove 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Icing 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 1/2 tea

Here is a repost from 2009 - one of my classic cookie recipe - Enjoy Ingredients 3 cups unbleached flour 3 sticks on unsalted butter, room temp 1 1/2 cup raw sugar 1 cup of Green and Blacks cocoa powder 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon salt Directions In the stand mixer cream together the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. In large bowl whisk together the dry ingredients. Turning the mixer to low slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter and the sugar.

Holiday Cookies

Cookies seem to get the highest number of requests, here is another not so run of the mill type cookie. I created this by mistake, I was out of molasses when I was making my ginger snap cookie but I had honey so I played with spice combination and after several tries I came up with the Spice cookie, I hope you like it. Ingredients 1 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 1 stick of butter room temp 3/4 cup raw sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 tablespoon raw local honey 1 teaspoon ground cinna

This is a variation on my grandmothers Sugar Cookie recipe, I had bought this large bunch of Meyer Lemons and i thought it might be a light lemony taste if i switched out the Vanilla for lemon juice and zest. I actually like it better, enjoy. I always make big batches of cookies, i guess you can half the recipe. This makes about 8 dozen cookies Ingredients 6 cups of unbleached flour 4 cups of raw sugar 4 sticks unsalted butter, room temp 4 eggs 2 tablespoons of Meyer Lemon

These wonderfully thin, tender butter cookies, have a delightful raspberry-lemon glaze Ingredients Cookies 2 cups powered sugar 4 sticks unsalted butter 4 1/2 cups unbleached flour 2 egg yolks 4 teaspoons lemon zest 1/2 teaspoon salt Glaze 4 cups powered sugar 4 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoons Framboise Whisk together the salt and flour In a stand mixer cream together the balance of the ingredients until light, then add the flour. Remove from mixing bowl, form into a bal

About 8 years ago I took a Couples' cooking class at I.C.E. in NYC and we made a Twelfth Night Cake, which our instructor told us was the early cousin to our current day Fruitcake. This cake was not the "brick" like cake which I and many others dread has the holidays get near, it was light and delightful, all be it very labor-intensive. So embarked to try to make a Cookie version of the Twelfth Night Cake, and after years interesting results I am now prepared to post; Here i

Gingerbread cookies with a twist, my gingerbread recipes is sort of a spiced fruit cookie meets gingerbread cookie. Ingredients 3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 3/4 cup of raw local honey 3/4 cup raw dark brown sugar 1/2 cup of almonds 1/2 cup candied fruit 1 large egg 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground clove 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Icing 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons of water 1/2 teaspoon real va