COOKIES

The New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie - This is the recipe by Jacque Torres that sent food bloggers heart's atwitter. This is also my favorite recipe, but one of the more time consuming ones. This produces thick and chewy cookies that keep very well. The drawback to this recipe is that the dough needs to chill for 36 hours before being used, and it's better to do what it says than to rush through it. The fridge is magical apparently.

Mom's Sugar Cookies - There is no better sugar cookie recipe than this. I have made it dozens of times and it has never failed me. It makes perfect cut out cookies, but nothing too intricate because these are puffy sugar cookies and any fine details will blur. It's best not to let the dough get to soft or too hard, so try to work fairly quickly.

5 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies - These are very easy and quick to prepare cookies. The texture is slightly grainy but absolutely delicious. Slightly underbake these for chewy cookies. Tastes great with peanut butter chips added in as well.

Pretzel Cookies - Easy to make cookies with a salty kick. Add in more pretzels than called for and a bit of extra salt to really kick up the salty-sweet contrast. Additionally, these cookies are better when baked less than the time called for.

Nilla Wafers - Tough dough to work with and it makes your hand cramp when piping it. However, these buttery cookies are VERY addictive. Err on the side of overbaking to avoid strangely chewy cookies. These should be very crisp.

Black & White Chippers - These cookies are reminiscent of Paradise Bakery's famous B&W Chippers. The trick with these is to get them uniformly shaped. To do this, use a very small cookies scoop, or flatten the dough into a rectangular shape about 1/4" thick and cut into squares (that's what PB does). Be very careful not to overbake these cookies, as they dry out quickly.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies - Super delicious. These cookies are very rich and fudgy, almost brownie like. Use the red scoop and bake at specified temperature for no more than 10 minutes.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies - Very yummy cookies. I made a substitute and used half peanut butter chips and half chocolate chips and it was really good. Use the red scoop and bake at specified temperature for about 8 minutes.