Cookies & Bars

Last summer, I promised my kids we would make s’mores in the backyard fire pit. We bought the ingredients, built the fire, and exactly four minutes later, a massive thunderstorm rolled in and destroyed everything. …

When I was a kid, the gingerbread men we hung on the Christmas tree were essentially decorative bricks. If you actually tried to eat one, you risked shattering a molar. They were aggressively hard, completely …

I love the flavor of gingerbread, but I absolutely hate making gingerbread men. The process of chilling the dough, rolling it out until my shoulders hurt, cutting out the little shapes, re-rolling the scraps, and …

I have a confession to make. Every Halloween, after my kids go to sleep, I go through their plastic pumpkins and steal exactly one thing: the Snickers bars. I don’t touch the fruity candies, and …

A few years ago, a buddy of mine went completely gluten-free. He invited me over for a cookout, and I decided to be a good friend and bake him a batch of gluten-free brownies using …

I used to think putting fresh fruit in a cookie was a fast track to soggy disappointment. If I wanted fruit, I’d eat a bowl of fruit. If I wanted a cookie, I wanted sugar, …

Pistachio dream cookie bars are a sugar cookie that moved into a 9×13 and invited pistachios. Butter, brown sugar, a little almond extract, chopped nuts, white chocolate. You press the dough in a pan. You …

Caramel crush bars are caramel bars that get their crunch from a bag and a rolling pin. You smash pretzels and graham crackers, press that into a pan, cook a pot of caramel, and press …

Turtle bars are the candy in bar form. Shortbread on the bottom. Pecan caramel in the middle. Chocolate on top. You cut them after they chill, which is the only hard part, and that is …