Bon Appetit December 2021/January 2022

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I BLAME IT ON TED LASSO and his pink boxes full of fresh-baked shortbread: Our obsession over cookies started early this year. Case in point, the popularity of our Salted Caramel Apple Cookies on bonappetit.com and the feverish hunt for more irresistible cookie recipes that followed. We found them in an array of new cookbooks and share our favorites for the holidays on page 56. When a tray of all the cookies was brought down from our test kitchen—which has finally reopened!—I took more than my share of Dorie Greenspan’s Iced Spiced Hermits (page 64). I hope no one was counting. Also impressive was the Pink Grapefruit Sugar Cookie, pictured above, from Jesse Szewczyk’s cookbook, Cookies: The New Classics. We’ve been thinking a lot about children here at BA, since the…

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