Bar cookies: Holiday gifts with ease
Photo credit: Doug Young | Clockwise from top center, peppermint shortbread fingers, pine nut and honey diamonds, peanut butter blondies with chocolate icing and burnt peanuts, fruitcake triangles, cranberry-pistachio crumble bars and gumdrop blondies. (Nov. 20, 2012)
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Lauren Chattman recipesI have a sentimental attachment to bar cookies, probably because the first recipe I ever baked on my own was a batch of blondies from "The Joy of Cooking." But there are also practical reasons why I'm still a fan.
As the holidays approach, and the list of cookie gifts I have to make gets longer, I turn to bar cookies to save time. Instead of portioning out dough by the spoonful or rolling...
