by Lynn Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift
from The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper
(Clarkson Potter, 2008)
Makes 30 cookies
The best recipes have backstories — at least, Sally’s always do. Here she gives the lineage behind these …

by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008)
Makes 36 cookies
This cookie is the Frankenstein’s monster of the cookie world. One part oatmeal cookie, one part peanut butter cookie, …

by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008)
Makes 24 bars
You probably didn’t even know you needed this almond bar, Well, wait until you taste it. The honeycomb bar …

by Lisa Zwirn
from Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season
(William Morrow, 2008)
Makes about 34 biscotti
The fruit and nut combination of dried cranberries and pistachios is often chosen for its Christmas colors. But …

by Lisa Zwirn
from Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season
(William Morrow, 2008)
Makes about 50 cookies
Most thumbprints are butter cookies with an indentation — made with the poke of a thumb, which is …

by James Villas
from The Bacon Cookbook
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007)
Makes 30 cookies
Rarely in Germany do you find a pastry shop that doesn’t have at least one row of tan Speckkuchen in the display case, …

from The Gourmet Cookbook
edited by Ruth Reichl
(Houghtlin Mifflin, 2006)
Makes about 8 dozen cookies
“From Vienna, city of music, laughter, and good food,” wrote Gourmet’s longtime contributor Lillian Langseth-Christensen, “comes a cookie so delicate, so fragile, so …

by Nancy H. Elliott
Makes approximately 36 biscotti
These are a unique twist on an old favorite created by the runner-up in our 2006 Leite’s Culinaria Recipe Contest, Nancy Elliott. The green-tea powder, or matcha, lends a …

Chouquettes
by Gale Gand with Lisa Weiss
from Chocolate and Vanilla
(Clarkson Potter, 2006)
Makes about 3 dozen pieces
Chouquettes are like small cream puffs, but are made with more sugar and a touch of orange-flower water. The tops are …

Alfajores Artesanales
by Carol Murphy Clyne
Makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies
Alfajores, shortbread cookies fused together with dulce de leche, have long satisfied the South American sweet tooth. This version, enrobed in bittersweet chocolate and edged with toasted …

by Dorie Greenspan
from Baking: From My Home to Yours
(Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Makes 32 cookies
Sometime during the first year of my marriage, I visited my mother-in-law in her kitchen. There she was, listening to the radio, whistling …