Cookie Descriptions

Chocolate Chip – This is the classic chocolate chip cookie with walnuts. Ingredients: flour, salt, baking soda, butter, vanilla, eggs, sugar, brown sugar, ghirardelli chocolate chips, walnuts.

Oatmeal Raisin – A chewy, cinnamon-y oatmeal cookie with both golden and black raisins. Ingredients: flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, oats, butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla, raisins.

Ginger – This is a soft, spicy ginger cookie – not a gingersnap. It is flavored with cinnamon, ginger, allspice, molasses, and enhanced with lots and lots of crystallized ginger. This cookie leaves a lovely aftertaste – which usually means that you end up reaching for yet another one! Ingredients: flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, salt, butter, molasses, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, organic crystallized ginger.

White Chocolate Chunk – A buttery, slightly crisp but still chewy cookie. The chew comes from ground coconut; the flavor is all butter, white chocolate, a hit of rum, crystallized ginger, and almonds. Hand chunked Callabaut white chocolate sets this cookie apart from the overly sweet mall cookies. Ingredients: oats, coconut, flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, butter, sugar, rum, eggs, white chocolate, almonds, organic crystallized ginger.

Lime Maple Sugar – This is one special cookie – usually lime cookies don't really taste much like lime. That's because no one wants to go to the trouble of using real limes. VLC's cookie has fresh lime juice and fresh lime zest as well as lime oil for a big citrus hit. Then to add something special, I've rolled it in a mixture of raw sugar and maple sugar to create a crunchy delicious border. Ingredients: butter, sugar, lime zest, egg, lime juice, lime oil, flour, salt.

Cranberry Cardamom – A seasonal cookie – cardamom and dried cranberries are holiday flavors. This one also has fresh orange zest to boost the cranberry flavor and is rolled in turbinado sugar for a little sparkle and crunch. Ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, orange extract, fresh orange zest, flour, baking soda, salt, cardamom, dried cranberries, turbinado sugar.

Chocolate Fleur de Sel – This truly special cookie is little more than the best imported Belgian Callabaut chocolate and wonderful French fleur de sel. Then I add just enough flour, butter, and sugar to hold it together! This small cookie is what they mean when they say "less is more" – eat one and all your chocolate cravings will be satisfied. Ingredients: flour, cocoa, baking soda, butter, sugar, brown sugar, fleur de sel, vanilla, Callabaut bittersweet chocolate.

Sunny in Seattle – An over-the-top version of chocolate chip. In this case, I've used hand chunked bittersweet Callabaut chocolate imported from Belgium, sun dried apricots, almonds, and just enough espresso to bring Seattle to mind. Ingredients: flour, espresso powder, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, Callabaut bittersweet chocolate, dried apricots, almonds.

Black Pearl – This little gem is a cocoa sandwich cookie that hides a filling created with raspberry jam and aged, imported balsamic vinegar. The filling and the cookie kind of meld to become one, creating a lovely combination of flavors. Ingredients: sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, butter, organic raspberry jam, balsamic vinegar.

Hair o the Dog – Did you have a hard night? Well, maybe a little more bourbon will cure your ills. This is the most decadent "cookie" I make. It's not a brownie and it's not fudge, it's somewhere in between – I don't think it really needs a category. Just call it wonderful. Makers Mark bourbon, black mission figs, Callabaut chocolate – it's over the top for some people – for others it's heaven. Ingredients: figs, bourbon, blackstrap molasses, chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, salt, flour, cocoa.

Black and Blue – Hold me back! This is another decadent piece of chocolate. Callabaut chocolate combined with cognac soaked sundried blueberries and then rolled in turbinado sugar for glitz and crunch. Important to note that this cookie does have nuts in it – finely ground almonds which add flavor and texture. Ingredients: chocolate, butter, cognac, almonds, flour, baking powder, salt, eggs, sugar, sundried blueberries, turbinado sugar.

Lemon Lightening – If I had to guess I would say that this cookie gets more compliments than all the others. It is a lovely combination of fresh lemon zest, lemon juice, and – when I can get it – lemon oil. The wonderful chew is from a heavy dose of almond paste. Rolled in lemon sugar to complete the bright flavors, your tongue will be very, very happy. As they say, there's a party going on in my mouth!". Ingredients: almond paste, sugar, lemon zest, butter, egg, lemon juice, lemon (or lime) oil, flour, sat.

Espresso Walnut Bourbon – A simple little butter cookie perfect with a cup of joe. The name pretty much says it all – flavored with espresso, Makers Mark bourbon, toasted walnuts. Ingredients: espresso powder, fresh ground espresso beans, bourbon, vanilla, flour, baking soda, walnuts, salt, sugar, confectioners sugar, butter.

Julia's 96 – Another butter cookie, this one developed to accompany tea rather than coffee. Flavored with fresh orange zest and toasted ground almonds. Ingredients: butter, sugar, confectioners sugar, orange extract, salt, almonds, flour, orange peel.