SHE'S MY CHERRY PIE

We’re dropping a special mid-week episode of She’s My Cherry Pie today with cookie connoisseur Vaughn Vreeland! Vaughn is a writer, recipe creator, and video host for New York Times Cooking. Vaughn also led the charge this year on NYT’s Cookie Week, the annual holiday event beloved by home bakers everywhere, which just dropped yesterday. Vaughn is also the co-author of Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat, a delicious collection of 100 time-tested recipes from the NYT Cooking team.

Vaughn joins host Jessie Sheehan for a festive, cookie-packed conversation in honor of Cookie Week and his new book. He shares stories from his lifelong love of baking, including kitchen adventures with his grandmother; his early days making box-mix cakes as a kid; and the Food Network obsession that helped shape his creativity. Vaughn also talks about his path into food media, how he landed at the Times, and what it’s like spearheading Cookie Week this year (plus, he dishes on the recipe he developed, the Popcorn Bucket Cookie).

Then, he walks Jessie through his Chewy Brownie Cookies recipe from Cookies, which took him months to perfect and achieve the ideal crackly top, fudgy middle, and chewy edge.

Get Vaughn's Chewy Brownie Cookie recipe! 

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Photo courtesy of Vaughn Vreeland