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Irresistible Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Irresistible Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

Irresistible Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies excerpted from The Bacon, Butter, Bourbon, and Chocolate Cookbook by Bruno Feldeisen. Photography by Henry M. Wu.

The Bacon, Butter, Bourbon, and Chocolate Cookbookby Bruno Feldeisen

Chef Bruno, acclaimed judge on The Great Canadian Baking Show on CBC Television, is back with another exciting cookbook!

In The Bacon, Butter, Bourbon, and Chocolate Cookbook, Chef Bruno focuses on four distinct ingredients to create some of his favourite recipes. Each one of these ingredients is remarkable on its own and together they produce a range of tastes and experiences that all food—lovers are greedy for salty, sweet, silky, chewy.

Recipes include: Bacon and Salmon Roe Devilled Eggs; Bacon Cheddar Scones; Bacon and Goat Cheese Risotto; Basil and Sundried Tomato Butter; Very Buttery Brioche; Butter and Soy—Glazed Brussels Sprouts; Bourbon Garlic Glazed Yams; Pork Belly with Bourbon Honey Glaze; Bacon and Stilton Cheese Mashed Potatoes; Warm Peach and Bourbon Cobbler; Cocoa and Molasses Baby Back Ribs; Double Chocolate Whoopee Pies; Chocolate Espresso Eclairs and more!

The Bacon, Butter, Bourbon, and Chocolate Cookbook by Bruno Feldeisen is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Indigo.ca.   

Irresistible Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

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Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies with Chocolate Ganache
Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies with Chocolate Ganache

Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies with Chocolate Ganache excerpted from Stuffed: The Sandwich Cookie Book is available by Heather Mubarak.

Stuffed: The Sandwich Cookie Book

Ice cream sandwiches, whoopie pies, macarons, homemade Oreos—this irresistible baking book has recipes for all these delicious sandwich cookies and plenty more.

From Browned Butter Blondie blog creator Heather Mubarak, Stuffed features 65 mix-and-match cookie sandwiches for every occasion and craving, including both sweet and savoury bakes that range from childhood classics with a twist (Nutter Butters! Chipwiches!) to sophisticated, party-ready treats (Strawberry Shortcake Macarons, Parmesan Polenta Crackers with Chive Cream Cheese). A whole chapter dedicated to swirly buttercreams, smooth ganache, fruity jams, and more lets you experiment with different cookie-filling pairings to your heart’s content. Or leave out the filling altogether for a super simple bake—the possibilities are endless! Home bakers of all levels will appreciate the flexible, choose-your-own-adventure format, while fans of Snacking Cakes, Dessert Person, and 100 Cookies will delight in a new trove of crave-worthy recipes. In a chunky package with a puffy case and a photo of every cookie sandwich, this book is stuffed with all the cookie recipes you’ll ever need. (more…)

The best thing I ate this month – October 2015
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Photograph by Peden & Munk

“These are the best cookies I have ever eaten!” “Where did you get these?” “Who made these?” “Seriously, where do I find them?” For the most part, that’s how the interrogation began moments after unleashing the Chocolate Chunk-Pumpkin Seed Cookies upon my colleagues. Some of the cookies somehow found their way around the campus buildings and that’s when the deluge of phone calls, texts, and emails began. I was sought out and I basked in the glow of celebrity. I became Kardashian-like for the next few hours. And it was all unintentional. (more…)