Cookies & Bars

Known in some parts as tar heel pie, this ridiculously rich and gooey chocolate brownie pie is crazy easy to make—and just as easy to make disappear.

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• 45 M
• 4 H
• 0

“So satisfying.” “Cakey and chocolatey and everything a brownie should be.” That’s what folks are saying about this crowd-pleaser.

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• 15 M
• 1 H
• 0

Cookie dough is oft a means to an end, an interim state of existence, a fleeting moment sacrificed to the creation of cookies. No more. Grab your spoons.

• 10 M
• 10 M
• 36

These are, in all seriousness, remarkably fudgy and as rich as the real deal despite being flourless. But don’t take our word for it. Make a batch and see if anyone can tell the difference. Bet you they can’t.

• 20 M
• 45 M
• 10

Baking a batch of these hazelnut-inflected, raspberry-jamwiched linzers is nothing if not a testament to your heart most definitely being in the right place.

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• 30 M
• 3 H
• 2

Christmas cookies that are as dramatic to behold as they are delicious to nosh. Swear. From everyone’s favorite food scientist, Shirley O. Corriher

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• 1 H
• 1 H, 30 M
• 0

Tender and delicate and buttery and spectacularly simple, just as classic shortbread cookies ought to be.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 8

These toffee cookies are sorta like shortbread but richer, thanks to the inclusion of brown sugar. Plus, they’re gilded with dark chocolate, pecans, and a sprinkle of fleur de sel.

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• 40 M
• 1 H, 5 M
• 0

A holiday cookie if we ever saw one! So buttery, so nutty, so delicate, so mind-bendingly lovely, these traditionally Viennese cookies rival the city’s fancier pastries as our fave.

• 1 H
• 4 H
• 16

Call them whatever you will. Breton butter cookies. French biscuits. Sables. We call them simply impossible to stop noshing.

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• 30 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 0

Just like cinnamon toast. Except better. Your kids will worship you. So will your inner kid.

• 10 M
• 45 M
• 10

Pecan pie rugelach. Bursting with all the expected ingredients and then some, including maple syrup, bourbon, even a pinch of cayenne. Your notion of rugelach is about to be upended.

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• 1 H, 15 M
• 3 H, 50 M
• 0

Cranberries add a chewy, sweet-tartness and pistachios bring a buttery tasting richness to these biscotti, making them a must-make for Christmas.

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• 1 H
• 1 H, 45 M
• 4

These spectacularly decorated cookie creations can be yours with your favorite roll-out cookie recipe, our royal icing, and our handy how-tos. Swear it’s so much simpler than it looks.

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• 1 H
• 1 H
• 4