Listen 9 min MORE Evan Kleiman says everything from Cake Monkey is good, from cookies to their mini-dessert specialties. Photo courtesy of Cake Monkey.
Food media is inundated each year with holiday cookies packages not packages of actual cookies but pitches on each periodical’s group of cookie recipes. This year’s packages have been overwhelming, but stick local on this one.
If you are planning to bake cookies, start with this year’s holiday collection from the Los Angeles Times. Cooking Columnist Ben Mims has put together a group of recipes from local pastry chefs and cooks who hail from all over the world. This is not a group of icing laden sparklers. Evan Kleiman isn’t a fan of the highly decorated, icing loaded cookie. These recipes and the list of cookies you can buy focus on what cookies you want to eat because, hello, cookies!