De Baking Psychopath

There's not much to be said about these cookies that hasn't already been said. If you Google "World Peace Cookies," you'll find that every baking blogger and his/her mother has made these cookies, loved them, and can't stop making them. And these are indeed so very good. Especially frozen . Chilled, there's a snappy crunch to them that then quickly gives way to the sandy, melt-in-your-mouth texture that everyone expects from a shortbread/sable cookie. Add the little melting moments that are the chopped dark chocolate that ripple through the cookie, and you have everything you need for a chocolate fix with an elegant flair that demands a cup of tea to accompany it. Since it's been published all over the Internet, I won't waste more virtual space with another rendition of the recipe, but instead will direct you here for a humorous commentary on the cookie's name and a printable recipe (link to print version is at end of the recipe). The dough i...

This is going to be the last post for awhile, due to a conglomerate of circumstances. The next eight weeks are going to be a flurry of activity: scrambling to write a grant proposal due in early August (and all the references, protocols, documentations, and hassle that come with it), in the middle of which taking a 2-week international trip back to the ROC in mid-late July for my grandmother's 80th B-day bash, closely followed by two conferences/retreats in mid-August that run right into each other (so that I have to leave the first one early and hightail it back just in time for the second one)... ...just wake me up when it's all over. I'm going to so need a vacation after all of that. A good friend of mine from high school was in town this weekend, and I wanted to have an edible gift for her to take home. Not only that, I wanted something that would travel well for a long road trip home and would go well with a good cup of tea, as my friend is a fiend for tea. So I wh...