Every now and then, you come across a recipe so ridiculously indulgent and unabashedly excessive that you simply must prepare it immediately. A perfect example? This recipe for homemade Kit Kat bars, adapted from Paula Deen, and loaded with peanut... More

Sweet pastry topped with layers of peanut butter mousse, jam, and an oat crumble? Even if they aren't exactly cookies, this was one bite-sized sweet that needed to be shared. It's a bar for diehard fans of PB&J, those who enjoy spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar. More

Baked for the 2010 Serious Eats Cookie Swap. "The cookie part of this recipe is very closely adapted from Joanne Chang's new Flour cookbook (the subtitle, "Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery and Cafe," is totally legit—the recipes are incredible... More

Baked at the 2010 Serious Eats Cookie Swap. "Back in 1996 I went to a rugelach making class at the Eldridge Street Synagogue led by Herb Schon, proprietor of Grandma's Recipe Rugelach. He told the story of how he started... More

The grasshopper is a vintage cocktail made with crème de menthe, crème de cacao, and fresh cream–it definitely falls into the dessert-in-a-glass category of cocktails. They inspired these Grasshopper Bars from Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito's Baked Explorations. More

They're a decidedly grown-up no-bake cookie. The dough is a mixture of bourbon macerated raisins, chopped pecans, and crushed chocolate wafer cookies spiced up with a warm mix of cloves, ginger and cinnamon. Since the dough isn't baked, the bourbon really has a chance to make its boozy presence known. More

The recipe began eerily similar to macarons: the almonds and confectioners' sugar whirred together to make a light, floury powder instead of a dense paste. When the egg whites were mixed in, the batter held its airiness. Piped onto the cookie sheets, the soft, peaked domes baked perfectly—puffed-up and crisp on the outside with that perfect chewy-meets-light inside, plus a super charged almond flavor from the ground almonds and extract. More

It seems only right to begin A Cookie a Day 2010 with a chocolate chip cookie recipe, because, well, we love chocolate chip cookies. These wafer-like Ultrathin Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Alice Medrich's Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies fall solidly into crispy and chewy territory. The chew comes from the addition of rolled oats and the crispness from a dough that spreads super thin (and super fast) during baking. For me these thin, crisp chocolate chip cookies possessed an almost potato chip element, salty and virtually impossible to stop eating. More

After baking up a batch of these Goldies from Alice Medrich's Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies I realized that they were the perfect cookie building blocks for all sorts of inspired sandwich cookies. On their own these crisp, vanilla... More

This cake is chocolatey but not too sweet, with a a moist, dense crumb. It can be finished with a dusting of powdered sugar, and keeps quite well wrapped tightly in plastic or foil.... More