It’s been a busy week in the Pâte à Chew kitchen. I didn’t go anywhere this Fourth of July. I stuck around the city, spending the Fourth at a barbecue with friends. I made hideously ugly yet totally delicious salted caramel brownies for the occasion. And then I spent the rest of the week and… Read More Blueberry Oatmeal Cream Pies with White Chocolate Mascarpone Filling
This month there has been lots and lots of baking in my life. I just returned from a weekend at King Arthur Flour in Vermont, where I took a class with the amazing and talented Gesine Bullock-Prado. She recently published a new cookbook called Pie It Forward, which is all about pies, tarts, galettes, and other delicious… Read More Almond Cornmeal Biscotti
Or, Chocolate Chip Cookies Revisited. Yes, this is the third recipe for chocolate chip (or chunk) cookies I’ve posted, in about a year and a half of doing this blog. There were Alton Brown’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Jacques Torres’ Chocolate Chunk Cookies, and now these. And these – Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies, courtesy… Read More Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
When it comes to dried fruits, raisins are my least favorite. Remember when we were kids, how our parents would give us raisins as a “healthy” snack? Lame. I will eat raisins, but I’ll only eat them 2 ways: covered in chocolate, and baked into oatmeal cookies. And sure, oatmeal raisin cookies sound like a healthier… Read More Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (or, “The Greatest Low-Fat Cookies in the World”)
I have a confession to make: I’ve never been big on Valentine’s Day. More often than not, it puts stress on people to do something great for a significant other (or pay dearly if they fail!), while also stressing out people who don’t have a significant other at all. It’s a lot of unnecessary stress,… Read More Hazelnut Linzer Cookies