Non-pareil Hamantaschen
The Jewish holiday of Purim is just around the corner. Beginning at sundown on Monday, March 10, and ending on Tuesday, March 11 at sundown, Purim is a fun and festive holiday observed with much revelry and celebration.
Pizzele Nutella Hamantaschen
Not a baker, but you’d like to make some quick and easy hamantaschen? I’ve got you covered with these: 1 package Reko Pizzelle (7 ounces) 1 large jar marshmallow cream or fluff (13 ounces) 1 large jar Nutella (26.5 ounces) sprinkles royal icing flowers confectioner’s sugar Place one pizzelle on a paper plate [...]
Peanut Butter Cream Rugentaschen
One of my all time favorite cookies is rugelach—a scrumptious crescent shaped cookie made from a cream cheese dough. I decided to use my rugelach dough to make hamantaschen and eureka! These next two recipes for hamantaschen made with a rugelach dough, may be my favorite hamantaschen yet. I call my hamantaschen made with cream [...]
Hamantaschen Hugs
Since I can’t seem to get enough of these rugentaschen—here’s another fun recipe that uses Hershey’s Hugs. Dough 8 ounces or two sticks of butter 8 ounces of cream cheese 6 tablespoons sugar 2 cups flour ½ teaspoon salt Filling Mini chocolate chips Topping Hershey’s hugs or kisses Dough: In the bowl of [...]
Sugar Cookies
Cookie baking season is upon us! If you’re a cookie baking aficionado, you will want to add these to your repertoire. This recipe produces a sugar cookie for all seasons. You can use just about any cookie cutter on the dough—autumn leaves and turkeys for fall, snowflakes and menorahs for winter, butterflies and flowers for [...]
Rugelach
A family favorite and one of my all time favorite cookies are rugelach--an Eastern European Jewish confection that is a cross between a cookie and a pastry. These crescent shaped beauties are made from a cream cheese dough. They are tender and flaky, and filled with a variety of spreads before rolling and shaping them. [...]
Honey Cookies
As always, I baked up a storm for the holidays—lots of round challahs; 3 cakes—Honey, Marble and Apple; two types of brownies—Honey and Dark Cocoa; two types of cookies—sugar and honey; 2 quick breads—banana and applesauce. I can go on and on—but you get the drift—I like to bake—I probably bake too much—but, it’s a [...]
Chocolate Macadamia Nut Biscotti
I recently brought this cookie platter to a dinner party. From left to right, the cookies are vanilla chocolate chip biscotti, chocolate macadamia nut biscotti, pumpkin pecan cookies with powdered sugar, checkerboards and chocolate drizzled pumpkin pecan cookies. The cookie platter was a big hit, but hands down, the favorite cookie was the chocolate macadamia [...]
Hamburger Cupcakes
When I made these trompe l’oeil hamburger and fries cupcakes and cookies last year for Father’s Day, they were such a hit with my family that I knew my June 2014 Father’s Day column would be a piece of cake (pun intended!). These delightful and tasty treats are so much fun to assemble and decorate [...]
Hurricane Biscotti
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy with all the devastation, displacement, power outages and gas shortages, we all long for a return to normalcy. It is comforting to see people resume their routines—jogging, walking their dogs, returning to work and school. We realize how much we take for granted— the welfare of our loved ones, [...]