Minnesota’s Classic Spritz Cookies evoke the Danish Butter Cookies whose tins appear in supermarkets at Christmas and in sewing rooms holding buttons and other sewing notions. Crisp, buttery little mouthfuls that are all too easy to overeat.
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Bob’s Red Mill’s United States of Cookies: Caramel Apple Cookies (MI)
Michigan’s cookie is moist and full of apple flavor thanks to shredded apple, apple cider, and a cider and brown sugar glaze.
Bob’s Red Mill’s United States of Cookies: Boston Cream Pie Cookies (MA)
Massachusetts’ cookie has a vanilla blancmange sandwiched between two cake-like vanilla cookies, the top smeared with chocolate ganache and sprinkled with rainbow nonpareils.
Bob’s Red Mill United States of Cookies: The Berger Cookie (MD)
Maryland’s cookie is a cake-like vanilla cookie slathered with a layer of fudge as thick as the cookie itself.
Bob’s Red Mill United States of Cookies: Lemon Blueberry Cream Cookies (ME)
Maine’s cookie is a crispy lemon cookie sandwiching a sweet, blueberry studded frosting.
Bob’s Red Mill’s United States of Cookies: Bananas Foster Cookie Bars (LA)
Get out your torch: Louisiana’s cookie brings the brulée with a bar cookie imitation of Bananas Foster. A pecan-paved sugar cookie crust is topped with thick cream cheese frosting, rum-soaked banana halves with a crust of caramelized sugar. Recipe source: https://www.bobsredmill.com/recipes/how-to-make/bananas-foster-cookie-bars/ I’ve never been to Louisiana, and I know there’s a lot more than just […]
Bob’s Red Mill’s United States of Cookies: Kentucky Derby Pie Cookies
Kentucky’s cookie imitates its famous Derby Pie, with chunks of dark chocolate, crunchy chopped pecans, and a hint of bourbon.
What I Baked for Christmas, Part Two: Apple Maple Baklava
This baklava is a cross between an apple pie and baklava, with layers of flaky phyllo pastry, pecans, and diced apples, soaked in maple syrup.
What I Baked for Christmas: Part One
Almost every year I knock myself out baking for Christmas. Past journals tell of exhausting marathons through homemade candies, batches of cookies, rum cakes, stollen, and other treats to send to friends and bring to family gatherings. In years past I’ve sent care packages to friends, usually including four different things but often stollen, rum […]
Bob’s Red Mill’s United States of Cookies: Sunflower Butterscotch Cookies
Kansas’ cookie is as sunshiny as a sunflower, with hearty oats, nutty toasted sunflower seeds, and sweet butterscotch chips.