“I’m not a baker.” Maybe it’s what I do for a living, or maybe I just give off confidante energy, but I’ve lost track of how many times friends and strangers alike have felt compelled to confess this ...

Preheat your ovens and roll out the parchment paper: It's cookie-baking season. We are rich in cookie recipes from top pastry chefs, from around the world, and from our own families. Whether you're ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. By Becky Krystal Dec. 1 at 11:41 a.m. So much about the holiday season is ...

I didn’t consider myself a cookie person until recently. Maybe a childhood experience is to blame. It’s an American platitude that everyone loves their mom’s ...

Making festive cookies for the holidays doesn’t have to mean owning six types of sprinkles or having three different sugars on hand. In fact, some of my holiday favorites have shockingly few ...

While I love dessert, I admit that baking can be intimidating. Reading through recipes calling for the use of precise kitchen scales, layers upon layers of ganaches and frostings and fondants, and a ...

"They are easy to make and even easier to eat," says the food star and author of the new cookbook 'Not Too Sweet' Sabrina Weiss is the Editorial Assistant of PEOPLE's food department. She writes the ...

The L.A. Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off is back, and after judging more than 150 entries, we have our winners. Here are this year's 10 best reader cookie recipes — a collection of reinvented ...

Welcome to my creative kitchen! Here, I share how to make delicious homemade recipes—from freshly baked bread, cakes, and ...

A fifth book from the founder of the famous cookie company, this collection of cheerful vignettes presents approaches to life's challenges in a series of "recipes" for success (e.g., "Humble Pie I: ...