Cookie Recipes: Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum

My dear friend and high school classmate June Lebell (those of you in the NY area might know her beautiful voice as former long-time hostess on WQXR) forwarded me this amazing collection of cookies I thought you'd all enjoy. (By the way, June is now living in Sarasota and busy as ever doing restaurant, music and theater reviews, speaking engagements, etc.)

From the kitchen of Rose on 11.10.07 at 7:07 PM in Cookie

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Wow Ben - tons of cookie recipes on your site. Are all the recipes tested by you? Oh, and welcome to this site!

Reply to this Posted by: Anonymous | March 25, 2008 6:32 PM #

Jeannette, if you click on Ben's name, (next to the date)you will be directed to his site.
Welcome to Rose's blog Ben!

Reply to this Posted by: Rozanne | March 25, 2008 6:24 PM #

Ben, can you put your website/blog address on here so we can access it? I would love to drop by, and welcome to Rose's site, ti is very friendly here and informative.

Reply to this Posted by: Jeannette | March 25, 2008 12:31 PM #

hi im Ben.. im a head chef and own my own bakery. Ive currently started my own site and it has quite a few cookie recipes that i enjoy making and family, friends and customers love it! my site isnt too flashy but please do drop by and check it out. Happy baking :)

Ben

Btw nice blog i bookedmarked it

Reply to this Posted by: Ben | March 24, 2008 11:44 PM #

thanks for remembering. don't worry this is IT! it's going into copy editing at which point adding recipes is ackward bc of the coding etc. i'll try to restrain myself.

Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | December 27, 2007 7:46 AM #

It's the perfect name. You couldn't have found a better one. Wasn't it your nephew who inspired you to give it that name?
Chocolate walnut bundt cake......can't wait for the new book. I can't believe you are adding another recipe to the book at this stage. Please don't be tempted to add more recipes or the book will be delayed further.

Reply to this Posted by: Rozanne | December 26, 2007 11:02 PM #

THANKS! I'm learning so much from you!

Reply to this Posted by: sherry | December 26, 2007 5:09 PM #

bleached is best. unbleached is higher protein so cookies will be flatter as the flour absorbs more water and less turns to steam to make them puffy.

Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | December 26, 2007 5:05 PM #

Does it matter if bleached or unbleached flour is used in baking cookies? Sometimes mine are perfect and other times they spread out too much. I haven't paid particular attention to which flour I use since I just now started keeping some of both because of what I've learned about bread baking. Thanks for anyone's help.

Reply to this Posted by: sherry | December 26, 2007 4:59 PM #

so it's not inappropriate to name the new book "rose's HEAVENLY cakes"!
here we are almost in copy editing and suddenly got inspired to create a new chocolate walnut bundt type cake. i've tested it twice, woody my recipe tester has too and now he's on his third test with just a little more leavening and i'll be doing it once more with a new type of pan i'm trying out and then a final time just for the pleasure of sharing it for an epiphany party! it will be in the book!

Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | December 26, 2007 11:10 AM #

Rose, I'm glad those people in the publishing world were proved wrong. Thank you for sharing the story of your great aunt. Every time you write one of these little stories I feel like I know you personally. I'm sure the others on the blog feel the same way.
Everyone enjoyed the cookies. My cousin's fiance took one bite of the brownies and said "oh my god I just tasted heaven". So, thank you, thank you, thank you for all those fantastic recipes. I have been baking all day long during the past few days and it has been rewarding to hear comments like that. I made cookies for all my daughters teachers too. Today is my day of rest.

Reply to this Posted by: Rozanne | December 26, 2007 10:16 AM #

rozanne, thank you for the profound compliment. there were ppl in the publishing world who questioned the appropriateness of a levy/beranbaum writing a xmas book but then one of the first reviews came out from a journalist in rhode island who said that the intro contained some of the most moving prose ever to be written in the english language about xmas. it was very validating.
so i must tell you the story of my great aunt polly. she was an extraordinary person whose work for the american association to the UN won her the eleanor roosevelt award of the year for foreign aid. though daughter of a rabbi one of her gifts to me which i still treasure was a little book called a christmas story. it was about a little girl in holland whose father was away at the war (WWII). her mother lit a candle in the window in the hope that he would return in time to see their son born. it spoke of peace,love, and faith, and my grandmother, aunt polly's sister, never dared raise her voice in objection.
i've always believed that religion should bring ppl together rather than to alienate them--that the true spirit of religion is to give us a vision of the infinite and the miracle of life.
christmas should be celebrated all year round and that goes for the cookies too!!!

Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | December 24, 2007 9:15 AM #

Rose, I got your Christmas cookie book about 2 weeks ago. I couldn't put it down, it is such a great book and so well put together. I am not suprised b/c all your books are like that. I loved the introduction. You did a phenomenal job writing it. I think it is possible for someone to read those pages in the middle of June and get into the Christmas spirit. I am catholic and I don't think I could have done justice to capturing the Christmas spirit so well.

Jeannette, I promised to let you know when I baked cookies from Rose's cookie book. I made the shortbread, lemon bars and brownies and they were out of this world. Just as I expected. One of the things I like about Rose's recipes is that they are not overly sweet. I can't wait to try the other cookie recipes. Did you have a chance to try any of the recipes?

Reply to this Posted by: Rozanne | December 23, 2007 11:32 PM #

I'm not sure I am in the right place, but I have a question for Rose. I always make your pecan tassies and I never have quite enough dough. I have individual petite pans. I would like to know what I need to do in order to make an additional half of the dough recipe correctly?

Reply to this Posted by: Cheryl | December 6, 2007 10:23 AM #

try e-bay--it's an antique. my favorite also!

Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | November 29, 2007 6:08 AM #

I'm probably posting all wrong so I apologize in advance. Rose I'm trying to track down a cookie cutter you used in your book the candy cane with bow. Please tell me you know where it can be purchased. Also, does HammerSong have a website?
Thank you.

Reply to this Posted by: Julia Uz | November 29, 2007 2:03 AM #

What kind of cookies are you making? Are they butter or shortening based?

Reply to this Posted by: Patrincia | November 21, 2007 5:44 PM #

Leona: I'm not a professional but I may be able to solve your problem. I think that if the cookies are puffing up and then falling flat I would guess that they are under baked. If they never rise at all then your baking soda/baking powder is not any good...throw it out and buy new. Hope this helps.

Reply to this Posted by: Bill | November 21, 2007 5:37 PM #

my cookies go flat...is that cuzz my flour??
I use all fresh indegrediants..

Reply to this Posted by: Leona L Schueller | November 21, 2007 5:24 PM #

Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum

This scratch baking blog, featuring baker and cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum, is an online journal of Rose’s baking adventures, cooking tips, and scratch recipes. Her cookbooks include Bread Bible, Pie and Pastry Bible, Rose’s Christmas Cookies, Passion for Chocolate and The Cake Bible.

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