Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: cookies

  • Pumpkin Gingerbread Cookies

    Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin.  It’s not just for pie.  These delicious cookies are rather decadent…chewy, moist, and exploding with pungent ginger flavor.  I recently baked hundreds of these with Michael Chen from MasterChef Season 3 for a third grade class at a local middle school during an assembly about seasonal cooking.  You might think kids would…

  • Bacon White Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Yes, yes…  I know.  “Bacon in a dessert?  GROSS!” I used to say the same thing, until my good friend Ross Strickland said on New Year’s Eve, “What we need tonight are some bacon white chocolate cookies.”  And for the past couple of years, all I hear about when I’m on the coasts is bacon…

  • Crispy-Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Everyone LOVES chocolate chip cookies, right?  I don’t like desserts, and even I like chocolate chip cookies. This is a great recipe honed for several years to produce what I think is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie.  I don’t like cakey cookies because they seem dry in my mouth.  I like the soft, chewy kind,…