Posts tagged kid friendly

Gingerbread Cookies

I have always loved gingerbread cookies and over the past twenty years have tried several different recipes for my Christmas cookie bags. This is a lovingly adapted recipe from the now defunct Gourmet Magazine. It is the best that I have stumbled upon in terms of the balance of the spices and the degree of fluffiness. It is also a very forgiving dough…so you can mess up and re-roll it several times which is great for toddlers.

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Brown Butter Blueberry Muffins

I love a good blueberry muffin.  The kind of mythical blueberry muffin that has the perfect balance of blueberries to fluffy moist muffin dough that you discover at a breakfast cafe in a small town.  The kind of magical blueberry muffin that is so delicious that you buy extra to take home for the next morning.  The kind of muffin that I could NEVER find a recipe for in a cookbook.  Year after year, I baked blueberry muffins that were, to say the least, underwhelming.  Until I stumbled upon brown butter blueberry muffins.

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