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Cookie Recipes

Orange Marmalade Cookies with Orange Zest Icing

August 15, 2010
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Rarely does a new cookie recipe make it into our abode’s “must make” repertoire. With our household favorites being so loved (like the chocolate chunk, snickerdoodle w/ Viet cinnamon, and oatmeal rum raisin recipes), a new find has to be pretty damn good to pass up baking an old favorite. These orange marmalade cookies with orange zest icing are pretty damn good.

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Chocolate Crack Cookies from David Lebovitz, Ready for Dessert

April 27, 2010
Chocolate Cookie Recipes

Warning: These chocolate cookies are crack, just like the title and photo suggests (but it isn’t really the hard stuff in the photo.  Powdered sugar and palm sugar were the prop fill ins.)

Need your chocolate cookie fix?  Here’s a little something for you adapted from the latest book of the dessert master David Lebovitz, “Ready for Dessert“.

David’s chocolate crack cookies are highly addictive chocolate bombs of ecstasy that he originally crafted in the kitchen of Chez Panisse.  He innocently claims the name comes from the “craggy fissures.” At that…

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Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

October 17, 2009
Chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips

If you twisted my arm and pinched my nipples to force me to name my absolute favorite cookie as a kid, I would have to say “Chocolate Cookie with Peanut Butter Chips.”

Oh such fudgy, chocolatey sweetness rifled with little peanut butter bombs. I love these cookies, and yet for some reason never make them. I don’t know why. They may be a touch more work than the chocolate chunk cookies or my new favorite, the snickerdoodle, but not excessively so. They are certainly every bit as delightful and eye-rollingly good.

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Deep Dish Snickerdoodle a la Mode – Episode 2 of the Pizookie Files

May 21, 2009
Snickerdoodles a la mode

In Episode 1, we introduced the dangerous pleasures of the pizookie, a deep-dish-baked cookie topped with ice cream.  The comments were filled with sweet tooth adoration,  a handful of guilty trembling, and a few expletives in excitement.  We had mentioned the unlimited possibilities of pizookies, and since the response was so ecstatic over the first pizookies post, we thought it would be fun to have a series, The Pizookie Files,  dedicated solely to the brilliance of pizookies.  It shall appear from time to time, here at WORC, and we hope you all enjoy this…

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Snickerdoodle – Cinnamon Sugar Cookie goodness!

May 18, 2009
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I had a brilliant idea. It was for another addition to our deep-dish-a-la-mode-cookie repertoire, aka pizookies. Aka Sweet Crack. However, there was one minor problem. I had no snickerdoodle cookie recipe for the dough that I wanted to use.   There were no snickerdoodle recipes in any of my go-to dessert cookbooks, no family recipes, no nada.

So I embarked on a little snickerdoodle cookie cyber research quest to discover the beauty behind these tasty cinnamon sugar cookies. I knew very well of how snickerdoodle cookies should taste, but there was a…

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Deep-dish Cookies a la mode – “Pizookie” Style

April 10, 2009
Chocolate Chip Cookie a la mode

Ok, enough teasing. The twitter followers got the inside scoop with the twitpics, but here’s the ultimate way to serve your favorite soft cookies, like our Chocolate Chunk Cookies   If you are a virgin to this sweet tooth delicacy, let me introduce you to a pizookie.  A pizookie is cookie dough baked directly in a dish (just like Chicago deep dish style pizzas) then while still warm out of the oven, it’s topped with ice cream and immediately devoured.  A deep dish cookie.  Absolutely brilliant.

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Chocolate Chunk Cookies

April 8, 2009
Chocolate Chunk Cookies Recipe

Nothing brings unadulterated joy like a perfectly baked, warm, soft chocolate chip cookie.  The whole process of making the cookies; the smell of the chocolate, licking the finished beaters, using the edges of my finger to scrape every last bit of dough from the bowl, the scent of the cookies right before they are done in the oven, and finally to breaking into the still warm cookies, chocolate oozing and quickly swooping in with the other hand in order to not lose a drop of deliciousness, they all take me back to my childhood…

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Peanut Brittle Cookies & See’s Candy Chocolate Giveaway!

February 11, 2009
Peanut Brittle Cookies

It’s almost Valentine’s day, so raise your hands if you like chocolate! Our hands are raised extra high now because we’re holding a fabulous $25 gift certificate to See’s Candy!

See’s Candy has always been one of our favorite family chocolates for a number of delicious reasons. It’s one of the best qualities of chocolate that we can get for our money and the variety that See’s offers is diverse enough to satisfy everyone in our family. Every time we need to send a gift of chocolate out to special family and friends, we send See’s candy…

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