Cookies & Bars Recipes

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Easy, Soft Homemade Ginger Molasses Cookies

Ginger Molasses Cookies are a holiday staple with hot cocoa and lively music. They are easier to make than rolled gingerbread cookies and still fill your home with all the smells of cinnamon and exotic spices from the orient.

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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

Iconic, irresistible, and universally adored, whoopie pies are one of the most delicious desserts around! This recipe for a red velvet version are delicate, delicious, and very easy to make.

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The Best French Macarons

French Macarons are the pinnacle of baking confectionery genius. Macarons take cookies to an unimaginable extreme of culinary perfection. Don’t confuse Macarons with the coconut cookies called “macaroons.” These almond flour cookies are made with a meringue base. When baked correctly, they have a light, crisp sugary coating surrounding a tender, chewy cookie interior.

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Our Chef’s Best Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies

Now and then, we come across recipes in the test kitchen that we use for years on end. This chocolate chip cookie recipe is one of them. Our pastry chef has used it in restaurants and bakeries for the last 25 years with rave reviews. You’ll soon see why.

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