November 2008
These French butter cookies offer sophistication and style from simple pantry ingredients. That is, if you can capture their elusive sandy texture.
January 2008
You may think an oatmeal cookie should be moist and chewy. Thin and crispy oatmeal cookies can be irresistible—if, that is, you can get the texture just right.
January 2002
Dry, tasteless molasses cookies belong on a Christmas tree, not in a cookie jar. We made more than 50 batches to find the best recipe for an uncommonly soft, chewy cookie with warm, tingling spices.
November 2011
Rolling out cookie dough is a sticky business. Most recipes add excess flour, and the resulting cookies are tough. Could we make tender, crispy cookies that roll out easily?
January 2008These German Christmas cookies are essentially spice-nut cookies—chock-full of ground nuts and flavored with a healthy dose of lemon and orange zest.
November 2012
Italians like these cookies dry and hard, while American versions are buttery and more tender. We wanted something in between—that is, crisp but not tooth shattering.
November 2010
Everyone thinks it’s easy to make classic buttery-tasting sugar cookies that are crisp at the edges and chewy in the center. Everyone is wrong.
November 1998
Superfine sugar and a combination of finely chopped and ground nuts yield tender, delicate, nutty cookies.
January 2000
Most coconut macaroons are achingly sweet, sticky mounds of semicooked dough that don't taste much like coconut. To solve these problems, we used three kinds of coconut.
January 2002
Dry, tasteless molasses cookies belong on a Christmas tree, not in a cookie jar. We made more than 50 batches to find the best recipe for an uncommonly soft, chewy cookie with warm, tingling spices.
