Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

This recipe is based on Martha Stewart’s Outrageous Chocolate Cookies. They’re amazingly good — the kind of recipe you make to enthrall other people with your baking prowess. The recipe popped into my mind after trying Green & Black’s white chocolate. I don’t like white chocolate but, after getting a rave review on Candy Blog, […]

For the third Hay, Hay, It’s Donna Day! the challenge was to make cookies having two colors and two flavors – a very good challenge. My choice, Caramel-Filled Biscuits with added chocolate, unfortunately, did not come out to my liking. Here’s my gripe: the cookie is buttery, sandy, and soft – like a tender shortbread. […]

For Passover, the local Wegmans stocked up on Doc Brown’s Root beer, macaroons, and Black and White Cookies from Wein’s bakery. I grew up downstate, where — I guess — there are more Jewish people. So these “specialty items” that flooded Wegmans are just regular things I grew up eating — especially Black and White […]

When it comes to chocolate chip cookies, I like them thin, crisp, and buttery. That way, even a bite without a chocolate chip is still a delicious one. This recipe fits that description to a tee. (I make them without the chips for Kian, my chocolate-abhoring stepson.*) As always, chocolate chip cookies are best enjoyed […]

Mmm, mmm good. This recipe was a challenge. I wanted to create something that would be eligible for the next Sugar High Friday; this month’s theme requires that all desserts incorporate liquor into the recipe. My initial thought was baba rhum. But then I read Chandra’s instructions: “let’s try to stay away from the ever […]

You can tell by the color that these lack a deep chocolate flavor. I bought The Clueless Gourmet cookbook several years ago and, soon after purchasing it, made its brownies more a number of times. And then, for whatever reason, never made them again. When I want a brownie now, I just doctor a very […]

It’s been a pretty hectic week around here, which has precluded me from doing much blog-worthy cooking. We ate corned beef and cabbage leftovers, homemade chicken soup, some take out and tonight, we had an impromptu potluck with some good friends. We had a great time: five kids and five adults feasting on smoked pork […]

There are recipes everyone loves, and there are recipes that loved by only a few. This may be the latter. You’ll have to judge for yourself. My dad’s mother – my “Me-ma” – came over from Italy in the first half of the 20th century. She was a fabulous cook; Sunday dinners were always replete […]

With and without chocolate. Everyone loves these cookies; make them and people will genuflect before you. They bake up very thin and crisp but after a day or so, they soften up and become chewy (which is how I prefer them). They have very little flour in them but lots of butter and sugar, which […]

This recipe comes from the March issue of Everyday Food (and is very similar to CDKitchen’s version. I made these last weekend for a potluck dinner and they were devoured. Rich, chewy, and chocolately, more than one person asked for the recipe. The recipe calls for pecans and semi-sweet chocolate, which I substituted for walnuts […]