They’re surprisingly easy to make and only require five pantry staples - butter, unsweetened cocoa, confectioner’s sugar, salt, and all-purpose flour ... Since the brownie mix flavor takes center ...

Sparkling sugar gives them a dazzling finishing touch. These pig-shaped chewy cookies with a zippy ginger flavor come to us from recipe developer and cookbook author Andrea Nguyen. Robust flavors ...

This combination creates a happy medium close to all-purpose flour that works well in a wide variety of recipes, from cakes ...

Add the pecans (or walnuts), chocolate chips and mashed banana and mix again until all of the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated. Cover the bowl and chill for 1 hour (see Recipe Tips).

Mix the flour and soda together ... but the fruit extracts are much easier to use. The recipe can be halved easily.

Recipes that ... I plan on savoring all the autumn I can. I mention the fat man's fast approach only because requests for his traditional mid-journey snack -- cookies -- have already started ...

For our taste tests, we concealed all of the labels to eliminate any bias toward packaging or brand names. We tasted each mix in a cocktail with tequila, made according to the package instructions ...