Bars & Cookies

I promise these soft Lemon Raspberry Sandwich Sugar Cookies hold their shape beautifully after baking and stay perfectly tender and crisp, even when topped with my homemade citrusy raspberry compote and filled with a sweet lemon-raspberry cream. Each cookie bakes crisp at the edges and soft and chewy in the center. They’re bright, tangy, and the cutest thing to share for Valentine’s Day or any spring celebration.

I was so excited to bake these sugar cookies. I’ve had these cutters forever, and they were completely forgotten until they finally saw the light of day. The cool thing about them is that you can create a double filling, adding more texture, contrast, and flavor to each cookie. And settling for one filling when you can have two?

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have the patience or skill for elaborate cookie decorations. But with these cookie…

You are going to love this super Gooey Brookie Pie. It’s brownies and cookies combined. What’s not to love about that?! It’s extra gooey and decadent, and I promise you won’t be able to stop at just one piece. The brownie layer is packed with chocolate chips for that fudgy texture, and the cookie layer is loaded with sweet and buttery white chocolate chips. The macadamia nuts bring a beautiful nutty note that pairs so well with both chocolates. It’s a delicious combination of textures and flavors that’s impossible to resist.

But wait! What’s brookies in the first place? Brookies are a mix of brownie batter and cookie dough baked together. Some recipes marble both batters, but I love layering one on top of the other. I think you’ll enjoy the contrast of textures more this way…

If you are looking for a highly addictive chocolate cookie (who doesn’t), you landed in the right place! These fudgy and chewy brownie crinkle cookies are super soft and chewy with a glossy crackly topping and a lightly crisp bottom. This is a super easy recipe made in less than 30 minutes and with only 5 ingredients. Add some flaky salt on top for an added layer of contrast and texture. They are the perfect everyday chocolate cookie and a number 1 on my list!

Brownie crinkle cookies are basically cookies made with brownie batter instead of a more traditional cookies dough, which tends to be thick and pasty. Here you will work with a wet batter and…

These sweetened condensed cookies are so ridiculously easy you would want to jump and throw whatever you have in your hands to bake a batch. These sweet biscuits are buttery and crumbly and not overly sweet. You only need 4 ingredients for the basic recipe and the sky is the limit for other delicious flavors you can add on. No eggs needed! In less than 30 minutes you can have 1 cookie in each hand. You are simply going to love them!

I was super excited to share this basic recipe with you because I have been in a somewhat lazy era. No, it’s not that I’m not loving cooking and baking right now (NEVER!!!). It’s just that nowadays I have been appreciating stillness…

White Chocolate Chip Macadamia cookies are such a classic! These are loaded with sweet white chocolate chips and creamy salted macadamia nuts. This cookie recipe is soft and chewy in the center but it’s its buttery flavor and the crispy edges and bottom that make them stand above the crowd. If you prefer crispier cookies, this is the recipe for you! 

To my surprise, there has been a lot of people telling me that white chocolate chip macadamia cookies are their favorite cookie, even more than regular chocolate chip cookies, which can be a dangerous…

You want Brownie Cheesecake Bars. But also you want Dulce de Leche Cheesecake bars. Why you can’t have both? Enter these brownie cheesecake bars topped with dulce de leche. Or these dulce de leche cheesecake bars with a brownie crust. I really don’t know how should I call them. I just know they are little bombs of sweetness with it’s soft and chewy brownie bottom, it’s super creamy and fluffy cheesecake center and it’s dulce de leche topping that brings all it’s lovely notes of caramel to these cheesecake bars.

I am to believe that a simple smear of Nutella makes anything better and this recipe is a living proof of that! This is nothing more than two simple sugar cookies with some Nutella in between. With a pink glaze and a bit of flare, these are the easiest and prettiest cookies you can possibly make. And you will want to gift them to your sister, your girlfriends and to anyone you love very much!

Inadvertently, sugar cookies made their way to my life even with stubborn hesitation. As it happens with my Extra Creamy Cream Cheese frosting (which btw, could be a fabulous filling for these as well!), you would think that living in the tropics comes…

What’s better than a Ferrero Rocher? Gooey fudgy brownies with lots of Ferrero Rocher inside! These super easy brownies are made in no time as well as gone in no time! They are totally addictive and hit you so, so well!

I think brownies have always been kind of magical. They were probably the first baking experience for most of us completely on our own. And, yes, I’m aware that experience was with brownie mix out of a box. But still, the magic of mixing a few simple ingredients by hand…

These lemon sugar cookie sandwiches are such a delight! Filled with lemon curd and a light cream cheese whipped cream, they are going to be your new favorite. You can make the lemon curd and cream cheese whipped cream in advance, they will be good in the fridge for a few weeks. Plus, using an embossing rolling pin will make these cookies the prettiest of them all!

Since the first time I saw one of those embossing rolling pins I fell in love with them. I’ve been wanting to get one with fluttering butterflies like crazy for some time now. I guess I loved the idea of making a…

These chewy and chocolaty strawberry Nutella blossoms are incredibly cute and impossible to resist. They’re soft and pillowy with a sugary chewy bite. Completely made with basic pantry ingredients, because I truly hope that by now everyone considers Nutella a very basic pantry item! Dough is made in no time and you can bake the whole batch at once or just bake the ones you are planning on eating. These are the perfect everyday cookie in my book!

You know I’m not a big fan of sugary and artificially colored anything. But these strawberry kisses made their way into my sight and definitely caught my attention. Between confusion, curiosity and grossing out, I was in the drug store aisle…

These cappuccino cheesecake bars are ultra creamy and silky, but you‘ll still have that wonderful coffee kick that you will love. They have a brownie bottom to make them ever more decadent. And they are topped with a pile of whipped cream dusted with cocoa and cinnamon, like a real cappuccino but without the mug. Lets say this is a coffee shot that you would be able to take anytime of the day!!

I have to admit I started drinking coffee veeeery late, as in less than 10 years ago. I had taken sips before, of course, but never had a daily routine of drinking coffee. My grandmother used to drink lots of it during the day. I’m talking about 5 to 6 cups a day. I loved sitting with her in…

Chocolate chip cookies made with bourbon, brown butter and orange zest. Crispy on the bottom and on the sides, chewy on the top, soft and gooey on the center. What’s not to love about these?! They hit all the good things in a good chocolate chip cookie. And I know you are going to love them!

I’m super excited with these because they are my first recipe of the year. The idea of kicking off the year with something so simple…

If you want to bake some super easy cookies that have written Christmas season all over them you need to bake these peanut butter blossom cookies with chocolate kisses. These are made in 35 minutes, and that’s including baking and freezing times my friends! Yes, flash freezing the cookie dough balls is how you prevent cookies from spreading, making sure you end up with…

Guava panetelas or “panetelas de guayaba” are cake bars made with a very dense cake batter that is filled in the middle with guava paste. They are very traditional here in Puerto Rico, everyone loves them! You only need 10 ingredients and that’s including the salt, and probably less than 40 minutes to have them in your mouth. Even if this is a dense cake batter, the crumb is soft and buttery and you won’t be able to eat just one!

If you want to make sugar cookies that don’t spread and hold their exact shape, this is exactly the recipe for you! My recipe for sugar cookies is super easy and make the most perfectly shaped cookies, no matter what shape that would be, but you will need to keep reading to find out what’s my secret technique…

These super soft and fudgy brownies come with a different story to tell. They are made with pure 70% dark chocolate and Dutch processed cocoa powder for a very intense dark chocolate flavor, cinnamon, ginger and cardamom to cozy you up during the autumn nights and sour cream (yes! sour cream) to highlight the acidic notes from the Dutch cocoa and to add moisture, creating a fudgy texture without…

These sugar cookies are soft and chewy and completely made from scratch. You will be amazed with how easy these are to make, especially with my trick to prevent cookies from spreading in the oven. Any shape will be safe with this recipe! And think of all the fillings and glazes you can make. But because Mother’s Day is literally around the corner, I’m sticking with Nutella as filling and a hibiscus glaze for a pink pretty color. You don’t see cookies so full of love everyday.

If there’s something I’ll encourage you to do is to keep going. And keep baking of course!! That’s why I’m very happy to have the opportunity again to collaborate with Borden in their campaign “Bake it ’til you make it”. Baking sweet things, no matter how little you think you know, is something that should always be encouraged!

These simple thin, chewy but still crispy chocolate chip cookies are simply the best. A little trick? Adding chocolate chip dust to mix in the chocolate chip cookie dough besides a good amount of chocolate chips. And then you have all those whole chocolate chips. The result? A thin chocolate chip cookie that has chocolate all over the place and it’s chewy but still crispy on the bite.

These chocolate raspberry shortbread bars are so simple and easy to make, I’m sure you are going to make them in repeat! The shortbread is thick and buttery, the raspberry layer bursts with lots of flavor and it’s the perfect contrast to the super smooth chocolate layer on top, which is made with our star ingredient, coconut milk. Yes! The chocolate ganache on top is made with coconut milk! And you will discover in this post how to incorporate coconut milk in your every day recipes.

This sugar cookies are soft and tender but with a crisp bottom. The best Nutella sugar cookies!