Most recipes for black walnut cookies are the icebox variety. (For a recipe, click here.) After the dough has been mixed, it is formed into logs and refrigerated. After several hours (or longer), the dough is sliced into discs and…

Gluten-free cookies

If you can’t tolerate gluten, tasty cookies might be a rare treat. These are not only good, they are good enough to share with friends or family who are not gluten-intolerant. (Assuming you’re willing to give them away, of…

Scooping ice cream onto cookies

Peppermint-stick ice cream. Eggnog ice cream. Pumpkin ice cream. Just before Thanksgiving, ice cream makers roll out wonderful seasonal flavors. They’re good in a bowl or on a slice of pie, but for something different, use…

This morning’s crisp and cool weather is a sure sign that fall is almost here.

What better way to celebrate the changing season than to turn on the oven to bake an easy, appealing bar cookie?

This recipe is part shortbread, part…

As a story in this week’s Let’s Eat section explains, people with diabetes no longer have to eliminate sugar from their diet. Instead, they need to watch their carb consumption and focus on healthful foods — as should we all!

With…

Here’s a cookie worth a million bucks to its creator, Carolyn Gurtz of Gaithersburg, Md. She just bested 99 other contestants at this year’s Pillsbury Bake-Off. Her prize is $1 million.

She started with a roll of peanut butter cookie dough,…

Do you ever make a recipe over and over, then all but forget about it?

Somehow, that happened to me with this cookie recipe. Five years ago or so, I remember making batch after batch. The cookies are a chocolate-lover’s dream:…