Cookies

Although I love Halloween and will be attending a great party tonight in an apartment with a terrace overlooking the NYC Village…

I was all about making bone cookies for halloween. I even went out and bought the Wilton bone pan. I made sugar…

Sad to be missing the gay Pride celebration in NYC this month, I will be there in spirit. This post was originally…

Frida Kahlo’s Almond Cornmeal Cookies came to me via a journey. With her fierce beauty and unique fashion sense, Frida Kahlo was…

I have fun making faux food for April Fool’s Day. Last year, I made these French fries cookies with “ketchup” and “mayo”…

One of my baking resolutions this year is to get much better at decorating cookies with the outline and flood method.  This…

When I found these adorable Valentine themed Linzer cookie cutters, I couldn’t wait to use them.   For the cookie part I…

Aachen, Germany is a lovely European city known for several reasons. Not the least being its spectacular and beloved German Printen cookies.…

At the beginning of the month I promised gingerbears in jeans, a cookie design I made previously and one I was looking…

I came up with this idea when I was looking to make something special for one of Dr. B’s nurses in Baghdad.…

Here in our little corner of Germany Spekulatius are a holiday cookie tradition.  Gilding them is a new Mad Hausfrau tradition which…

I was that annoying kid who immediately after I received a box of chocolates,  took a bite out of each one and…

I have always loved that Bugs Bunny Cartoon where Bugs does a makeover on the angry monster and gives him a “permenanent”…

It’s hard to describe how much I love my friends Arnold & Fabio. Their house and their hearts are always always open…

These Italian seven layer or rainbow cookies remind me when I lived downtown in NYC. Back then (before Chinatown swallowed parts of…

This was the last thing I was able to make out of my friend Trudi’s orchard in Temecula, CA before I had…

We have a gorgeous Cherry tree in our yard.  Unfortunately, I left home for the summer before any cherries were ripe, so…