Thank You! Want a Cookie?
Please allow me to take a break from the usual photo and recipe post to tell you all how fabulous you are!
I only started Joy the Baker about 5 months ago. In those short months, I have connected with fellow food lovers from around the world. The response has been truly heart warming. The praise, support and inspiration has really changed my life.
Thank you! Thank you for visiting so loyally. Thank you for reading, drooling and commenting. Thank you for trying my recipes and telling me about your successes and oopsies. Thank you for all of the laughs and inspiration that you have unknowingly provided me.
The only real way to say thank you is with cookies. These Red Velvet Black and White Cookies have gone off the charts in their popularity on this site. So, three lucky Joy the Baker readers will find these little beauties in their mail boxes- a thank you from me to you! All you have to do is a leave a comment on this post, and I’ll pick at least three random names, ship them off, and you’ll enjoy cookies! Go on, leave me a comment. Tell me something good.
Thanks again for all of your support! It means so much to me!
Cookies, Thoughts | Comments (89)Super Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ok… with this recipe I’ve totally been busted. It’s late April and here I am with a pumpkin post. That can only mean one thing- I’ve had a can of pumpkin in my pantry since last Thanksgiving. Absurd! I know! That little pumpkin gem must have gotten pushed to the back of the line in the past few months. Well, it’s seen the light of day in these most delicious cookies.
These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are a combination of cookie, cake and pancake and quick bread. They’re super soft, moist and cakey. They’re full of pumpkin and spice flavor, and the chocolate just sends them over the top.
I know I can’t be the only one with a lonely can of pumpkin in the pantry. These cookies are a simple and delicious was to celebrate that forgotten can! Throw some vanilla ice cream in, and life has suddenly improved. It’s as easy as that!
Lemon Whoopie Pies
Forget about saving room for dessert. One of these lemon whoopie pies is a whole meal in itself! These beauties are not the delicate, petite, wallflower cookie. They bake up into a beast of a cookie. They’re doubley soft, cakey cookie goodness filled with a lemony cream cheese filling.
These are not a snacking cookie. They’re a “sit down and shut up and eat your freakin cookie” cookie. That’s not too hard to do, right?
Cookies, Recipes | Comments (34)Red Velvet Black and White Cookies
Ok, you might need to sit down for this one. This is going to be good. I don’t know where to start with these cookies. Red Velvet Black and White Cookies- they brilliantly combine the tradition of black and white cookies with the near religion that is red velvet cake. The cookie is soft, moist and cakey, and the frosting… shut up! They were SO incredibly good… and this is coming from me… I practically eat cookies for a living!
When it comes to Black and White Cookies, I think I have a problem. They are absolutely my favorite cookie in the world. I like Black and White Cookies more than I like…. I dunno: puppies. Yea, and who doesn’t like puppies!? So it’s pretty serious.
Cookies, Recipes, Snacks | Comments (38)Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I often find myself with several bags of chocolate chips roaming freely in my cabinets. Today I found large milk chocolate chips, mini semi-sweet chips and white chocolate chips. When I bake cookies, I usually chop chocolate from a large bar of good chocolate, so it’s strange that I would find so many varieties of chips in my life. Well, life gave me chips, and I made cookies. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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Apricot Cornmeal Cookies
Slice and bake sugar cookies are so much fun to play around with. If you can dream it up, you can throw it in sugar cookies. This time around I chose sweet dried apricots and cornmeal for crunch.
I always have a log of sugar cookie dough stashed in the freezer for those moments when I need a quick birthday gift. Note about me: I terrible at remembering birthdays. I absolutely LOVE birthdays, but selfishly, only seem to remember my own. I’m pretty sure this makes me a jerk. For this, I am sorry.
Cookies, Recipes | Comments (6)Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies
By Sunday, my fridge is usually full of baking leftovers from the week- a bit of cookie dough, scraps of cake, a tiny bit of frosting. What to do with all these treats sometimes perplexes me. This week, I married the leftover cookie dough I had in the freezer from my cookie extravaganza, and the Swiss Meringue Buttercream from my Blackberry Jam Cake. Oatmeal sandwich cookies! They’re great wrapped in wax paper and stacked in the fridge for a sweet snack. They won’t last very long, I guarantee.
Cookies, Tips and Tricks | Comments (13)Cinnamon Orange Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon tinted Mexican Wedding Cookies
Since I bake with what seems like a compulsion, I must admit that I often eat dessert for dinner. Photographed above is my Wednesday night dinner- Cinnamon Orange Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon tinted Mexican Wedding Cookies. I know… it might seem like I went a little cinnamon crazy, but I had good reason- Nikki at CrazyDelicious is hosting a Master Baker event, and this months theme in cinnamon!
So there were three things going on in my mad kitchen: cookies that are light, nutty and tender, hot chocolate that is perfectly rich and full of flavor , and funky orange slices that I would take back if I could…. Let’s start with the cookies. They’re outta sight!
Cookies, Recipes | Comments (19)Biscuit as spoon
One thing I forgot to tell you about the sorbet I posted two days ago is that you don’t need a spoon to eat it. How brilliant is that!? Use these no fuss sugar biscuits to scoop up the dark chocolate goodness. You’ll thank me, and that’s a fact.
Cookies, Recipes | Comment (1)Cookies and the Wooden Spoon
Oatmeal with Candied Ginger and Walnut Cookies
Chocolate Chip Salted Cashew Cookies
I have a strong connection to my Kitchen Aid. It spoils me. It takes me on lavish Caribbean vacations, compliments my fashion choices, and yes… even mixes my cake batters evenly in the flash of an eye. I have deep affection for this machine, which was in no way diminished by my choice to make cookies by hand. There is something to be said for the wooden spoon technique. It’s a baking fundamental. My fantastic pastry teacher Chef Griswold taught me that good cookie dough shouldn’t have too much air whipped into it. So a wooden spoon help decrease the amount of air and also helps ensure that the dough isn’t overworked by the powerful mixer. It takes more time and elbow grease, but the result of hand craft and fantastic!
Cookies, Recipes, Uncategorized | Comments (8)A Cookie We Can Believe In
Never had I had any desire to write about a politician, let alone believe in one. Don’t fret, I won’t stand on my soap box and bore you with my enthusiasm for Barack Obama. Just understand, that I believe, in my politically cynical yet paradoxically hopeful heart, that Mr Obama represents a necessary change for our great country. I believe in his ability to lead us into a better future. I truly do. I like him so much, I made him cookies. Since the man and I are separated by geography as he campaigns, I took the cookies down to his campaign office where volunteers greeted us with open arms. I know… radical political activism.
Note: You can make these sugar cookies for any presidential candidate of your choice. They’ll taste just as good!
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