Month: October 2011

Sugar Shuttles

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My personal find is a recipe from 1951 called “Navettes Sucrees” or Sugar Shuttles. The “shuttle” refers to shuttles on a loom or sewing machine, not space shuttles. I made these cookies last Christmas and really liked the dense rich texture and unusual crunchy sugar coating. The cookies have a hand-rolled cigar shape and a shaggy sugar coating from being dipped in egg-white and sugar. Continue Reading →

Chocolate–Peanut Butter Moon Pies

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Moon pies are classic Southern cookies filled with marshmallow and coated with chocolate. Rebekah Turshen, the pastry chef at Nashville’s City House, developed this recipe. She spreads crispy sugar cookies with chocolate and peanut butter, then sandwiches them around a marshmallow filling. Yum!! Continue Reading →