The biggest challenge about our annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest is not the baking, but creating your own original recipe. That’s what dozens of bakers have told me when sharing their stories ...

The Cookie That Changed My Life is a new cookbook by world-renowned baker Nancy Silverton (written with Carolynn Carreño). Silverton is the founder of LaBrea Bakery and has been a professional baker ...

The holidays are coming, and for many home cooks, that means baking lots and lots of cookies. Here's a trio of new cookbooks that will take your holiday baking to the next level. Recipes range from ...

To celebrate Tulsa’s love of cookies, the Tulsa World published a cookbook with 101 recipes that includes some of the city’s most cherished traditions. “Tulsa World Cookies” features a variety of ...

"Christmas Cookie Swap! More Than 100 Treats to Share This Holiday Season,” Oxmoor House, $19.95, 256 pages, paperback What foods come to mind during the holidays? For many people, the answer will be ...

Helen Fletcher, a professional baker and pastry chef for more than 30 years (and an SLM contributor) has just published a new cookbook, Craving Cookies: The Quintessential American Cookie Book. The ...

During the worst of the pandemic last year, many community cultural events shut down, or organizers looked for ways to connect online. The organizers of one such event, however, used that time to ...

Over the years, we’ve kept in touch with South Florida doctor Sanford Siegal, inventor of the Cookie Diet phenomenon. When we heard he had released a new cookbook (with surprisingly yummy low-calorie ...

Have you started your holiday cookie baking yet? Not meaning to stress you out, but bakers it's time to get serious about this annual ritual. Recipes gathered, all the necessary ingredients on the ...

Use it instead of salt. Don’t judge me, but between 2024 and 2025, I baked over a thousand cookies. Why so many, you ask? Well, I was deep in the recipe testing and development trenches for my newest ...