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Oct 18th Recipes Start Here
Oct 18th Podcast
Link to Buzzsprout Podcast
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From Test Kitchen to Your Kitchen
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Bridging the gap between America’s Test Kitchen’s perfection and our everyday baking; Gloria’s tips, variations, and results for six standout cookies.
There’s something special about taking a carefully tested recipe from America’s Test Kitchen and making it in your own home kitchen. That’s exactly what this episode is all about. We’re sharing six standout cookies we tried from The New Cookie complete with the little tips, swaps, and variations that helped bridge the gap between professional and our everyday baking. Some turned out exactly as hoped, others got a personal twist, and every single one brought a little extra joy to our kitchen and our family. Ready to see the results of our kitchen adventures and what we changed along the way?
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Chocolate Sugared Oatmeal Cookies
The topping on the cookies looks like frosted lace – so beautiful!
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About the Recipe: This brown sugar oat cookie is lightly flavored with mild chocolate. Topped with a very light chocolate icing, it looks like a delicate frosting lace pattern. Icing the cookies is the hardest part, but do take your time and try it. They look so beautiful on a cookie platter.
Recipe Inspired by America’s Test Kitchen: The New Cookie book, Iced Espresso
Oatmeal Crunchies, pp.162-163.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Chocolate Sugared Oatmeal Cookies
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Malted Milk Chocolate Snowballs
A little crunch with a touch of malt chocolate ready for the holidays.
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About the Recipe: Two recipes in the cookbook caught my attention: one for snowballs and another featuring malted milk. I combined the ideas to create these cookies. Chocolate Malt Mix adds a light, creamy flavor, while rice crispy cereal provides crunch and mini chocolate chips buzzed in an extra touch of chocolate. The result is a delicious new holiday cookie!
Recipe Inspired by: America’s Test Kitchen, The New Cookie, p. 351 Snowballs
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Malted Milk Chocolate Snowballs
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Spicy Almond Celebration Skillet Cookie
Loaded with chocolate and topped with smoked almonds.
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About the Recipe: We were having a very special birthday celebration for a friend in a nursing home who just loves cookies. This skillet cookie was the perfect birthday celebration surprise, warm and so yummy served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. We used pumpkin pie spice to bring the autumn season right to the party. I loved using the smoked almonds that already were salted so we didn’t need to add any salt to the topping. The dark chocolate was just slightly melted, adding a special surprise.
Recipe Inspired by: America’s Test Kitchen, The New Cookie, p. 60 Spiced Almond Chip Skillet Cookie.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Spicy Almond Celebration Skillet Cookie
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Chocolate Chunky Cookies
These cookies bring back memories of those thick chunky candies.
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About the Recipe: This cookie brings back a candy memory of thick chunky chocolate candy that everyone loved. Great to serve on one of those cold days since it’s loaded with so many chunky sweets.
Inspired by America’s Test Kitchen, The New Cookie, p. 126, Texas Trail Cookies
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Chocolate Chunky Cookies
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Mocha Chocolate Streusel Cookies
The surprise ingredients are coffee grounds and bananas!
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About the Recipe: Just imagine that those two overripe bananas could make the most delicious chocolate cookies. It’s true! These delicious, full-of-chocolate cookies are topped with crunchy buttery streusel and have “soft tender centers” surrounded with crunchy edges. The surprises are that the mocha flavoring comes from your own favorite coffee grounds, left over from breakfast, and mashed ripe bananas that seem to disappear but make the cookies moist. It’s a major yum for your tum!
Recipe Inspired by: America’s Test Kitchen, The New Cookie, p. 383 – Chocolate Banana Streusel Cookies.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Mocha Chocolate Streusel Cookies
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Sweet Potato Cookie Cake
Creamy Sweet Potatoes add a harvest touch.
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About the Recipe: Not having any canned pumpkin puree or all of the spices needed, I decided to try some sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie spice as substitutes in this recipe. I also decided to add a sprinkle of pecans for some added texture. They added that autumn feeling and made the finished squares taste a little like sweet potato gingerbread. It was different from the original Test Kitchen recipe but a delicious treat to serve this fall.
Recipe Inspired by: America’s Test Kitchen, The New Cookie, p. 329. Pumpkin Cream Cheese Blondes
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Sweet Potato Cookie Cake
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Oct 4th Recipes Start Here
Oct 4th Podcast
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Timeless Classic Cookies Reimagined
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Want to make some cookie magic this upcoming baking season and create some buzz?
This time on Food for Body, Mind and Spirit we’re exploring Timeless Classic Cookies Reimagined, and it seems to me, America’s Test Kitchen has been having a fun time creating the go-to resource we all need now.
I sat down (virtually) with Stephanie Pixley, deputy food editor of ATK’s books team, and culinary producer of Cook’s Country. She’s the kind of person who lights up talking about baking projects, and she walked me through The New Cookie, their brand-new collection that takes everything we love about traditional cookies and gives them a fresh, modern glow-up.
We’re craving the Triple Triple Gingerbread Cookies with White Chocolate which have a bright citrus lift with a sleek two-tone white chocolate dip; Brown Sugar Milk Tea Cookies that taste like your favorite boba shop; as well as the deep-violet Ube Crinkle Cookies with their irresistible chewy-fudgy centers.
This cookie recipe collection is ready to roll into your kitchen, and into your next gathering.
Listen to the full conversation with Stephanie and get a closer look at these three sneak peek recipes that prove the classics still have plenty of new tricks up their sleeves.
Ready to bake a little differently? Let’s go.
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Stephanie Pixley
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Photo Courtesy of America’s Test Kitchen
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Photo Courtesy of America’s Test Kitchen
Stephanie Pixley who is the deputy food editor of America’s Test Kitchen books’ team and culinary producer of the Cook’s Country TV Show.
The New Cookie Book will shake up your cookie baking with 150 foolproof bakery-quality cookie recipes that feature exciting flavors, lush textures, and irresistible comforts from America’s Test Kitchen.
Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine bookstores across the country.
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Triple Citrus Gingerbread with White Chocolate Cookies
Photo Courtesy of America’s Test Kitchen
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What America’s Test Kitchen says about this recipe: “We love gingerbread but if we’re going to bake it every year, we think it needs an exciting update. These cookies are … enlivened with bright, surprising flavor from lemon, lime, and orange zests…These updated gingerbreads deserve something different than piped icing. Dipping them in two tones of white chocolate gives them a striking, modern look; plus, the white chocolate tempers some of the punch and pucker.”
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Triple Citrus Gingerbread with White Chocolate Cookies
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Brown Sugar Milk Tea Cookies
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What America’s Test Kitchen says about this recipe: “ This chewy, rich, black tea–scented cookie takes inspiration from the incredible flavor of brown sugar milk tea, a boba shop favorite…We were able to approximate the super deep, dark Taiwanese sugar, by adding molasses to a dark brown sugar cookie base for lots of extra depth and chew. Infusing the butter with tea leaves gives the most pronounced tea aroma and flavor to counterbalance the sugar. A final milky glaze brings the concept together for a surprising treat”.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Brown Sugar Milk Tea Cookies
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Ube Crinkle Cookies
Photo Courtesy of America’s Test Kitchen
What America’s Test Kitchen says about this recipe: “Ube extract and ube halaya (a Filipino ingredient that is essentially a cooked-down, concentrated jam of sweetened ube) are the most convenient forms for American cooks, and we add both to our crinkles for the strongest flavor. The extract lends our cookies a deep violet color and the earthy, sweet, nutty aroma of the purple yam. The sticky halaya enriches the flavor while giving the cookies dynamic texture: chewy-crisp edges with a dense, soft, fudgy interior.”
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Ube Crinkle Cookies
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Links to 2025 Monthly Programs
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January 2025 Program – Sweet Dreams/Sleep Expert -Dr. Beth Malow
February 2025 Program – Discover a Medical Pharmacist – Sylvia Ezra
March 2025 Program – Dining by Rail/Rail Historian – James D. Porterfield
April 2025 Program – Recipes with Love – UMMA the book /Sarah Ahn
May 2025 Program – It’s Party Time! Whittaker Inn
June 2025 Program – Farmer Lee Jones with Charlie Trotter Pop-up Dinner
July 2025 Program – Six Sisters Stuff – 30 Minute Meals
Aug 3rd – Podcast – Sizzling Steaks – RPM Steakhouse-Scotty Gelband
Aug.17th -Podcast – Discover Soulful Indian Recipes, Heartland Masala book & Sangita Handa Home Cooking
Sept 7th – Podcast – From Trotter’s Legacy to Your Table: A Culinary Tribute
Sept 21th Podcast – Vegan Goes Italian – Vegana Italiana – Chef Tara Punzone
Oct 5th Podcast – Koji Experience – Jeremy Umansky, Rich Shih, Koji Alchemy book
Oct 19th Podcast – Cake Time is Bake Time – Dorie Greenspan’s book, Dorie’s Anytime Baking.
Nov 2nd Podcast – Part 1 Magic Moments with Dorie Greenspan, Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies, Gloria Goodtaste’s “Around-the-World” Peace Cookies
Nov 9th Podcast –Holiday Recipes Start Here – Part 2 Trending Thanksgiving Recipes
Nov 16th Podcast – Holiday Recipes Start Here: Part 3: Celebration of Native American Recipes – Rooted in Fire -the book , Pyet DeSpain
Dec 7th Podcast – Elfie’s Christmas Cookie Adventure
Dec 21st Podcast – Heritage Holidays – Weaving Stories Through the Generations
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Links to 2026 Monthly Programs
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Jan 4th 2026 Podcast – Flavorful Mocktails by Ryan Castelaz, Family Friendly Mocktails Drinks
Jan 18th 2026 Podcast –A Secret Peek into Fine Dining, Korean Style at Charlie Trotter’s Guest Chef Series Vol.10
Feb 1st 2026 Podcast – Chocolate Lovers Delight, Love of Chocolate book, Phillip Ashley Chocolatiers
Feb 15th 2026 – Madagascar, Emmanuel Laroche Author, A Taste of Madagascar, GG Inspired Recipes
Mar 1st 2026 – Filipino Food, Kasama Michelin Starred Restaurant, Cebu Filipino Food
Mar 15th 2026 – Nashville Chefs Come North, Trevor Moran Locust, Interesting Recipes
April 5th 2026 – Traditional Recipes, Modern Twists – Erik Anderson Michelin Starred Chef
April 19th 2026 – A Mother’s Love on Every Plate. Gus Constantelles Book – A Greek Mom’s Recipes
May 3rd 2026 – Mother’s Love on Every Plate -Part 2, Greek Food at Acropolis Restaurant
May 17th 2026 – Retro Recipe Favorites – Part 2, GG’s Recipes
June 7th 2026 – Flashback Favorite Recipes – Part 2, GG’s Recipes
June 21st 2026 – From Professional Kitchens to Family Tables, Chef Gavin Kaysen, Mentor to Upcoming Chef Talent
July 5th 2026 – James Beard Honorary Dinner- Chef Recipes, James Beard Recipes, At Home James Beard Inspired Recipes
July 19th 2026 – Basket of Summer Flavors – Favorite Recipes
August 2nd 2026 – Michelin Starred Magic at Home, Chef Trevor Teich, Astor Club. Claudia Restaurant and Charlie Trotters Influence
August 16th 2026 – Appalachian Roots to Culinary Heights, David Breedan, At Home Recipes.
Sept 6 2026 –A House in the Lebanese Mountains, Sarah Trad Author/Hostess, Lebanese Recipes
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Internet Podcast
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- Hear from experts about various trending topics.
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