Tiny Test Kitchen

Clinton St. Baking Company is a diner/cafe/baked goods mecca (Zagat even gives it a 24). The lines for brunch on a weekend can be up to 3 hours or so. They recently released a cookbook so you can now get all the home baked goodness in your own home, which is perfect as very few […]

Happy Labor Day! As a Brit I had no idea what Labor Day was until I just wikipedia-ed it (how isn’t that a word yet?)… and apparently it is a day to celebrate laborers. Interesting fact of the day – the first was held in New York and used as a bribe to appease workers […]

Some may say that writing a recipe for white chocolate chip cookies before I have posted a recipe for regular choc chip cookies is sacrilege. The good news is you can replace the white chocolate chips with semisweet chocolate chips to make regular choc chip cookies. I am one of the weird breed of people […]

Ask any ex-pat and they will tell you that aside from being away from their friends, family and family pets (our dogs mean a lot to us!) the thing that they miss the most is the food. As many of you know, I am from England and while the rest of the world is laboring […]

These old fashioned cookies with a peculiar name have been around since the nineteenth century, which in culinary terms really is not that long. There is much debate over whether they are a New English invention or from Germany or Holland, but there are a couple of things we do know for sure though. They […]

Originally I picked this recipe out for a Kentucky Derby party we had last weekend. The pink raspberry filling seemed so spring like and festive and perfect for a day spent watching horse races and sipping mint juleps. Alas, in the end the menu I had planned fell by the way side as I had […]

The reason these tasty morsels are called Quick Italian macaroons is I have two really good recipes for Italian macaroons but the other one is not quite as quick. It requires granulated sugar as well as confectioners’ sugar and as a result the mixture needs to be aged overnight to allow the flavors to meld. […]