• DKennedy on February 14, 2017

  Link to the COTM thread: https://www.chowhound.com/post/november-december-2010-bctm-maida-heatters-cookies-hand-744131

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Chocolate and peanut butter ripples

  • cellenly on August 13, 2025

    A top and bottom chocolate layer that’s not too chocolatey with a crumbly Reese’s peanut butter filling type middle. The middle layer was delicious and the star of the cookie and the chocolate layer was just a support vehicle to consume the middle layer. The peanut layer for us was super crumbly (probably because we used natural peanut butter since that’s all we had) and totally unstable and messy as it fell apart easily to the touch.

• Lemon walnut wafers

  • cellenly on July 04, 2025

    Imagine toll house chocolate chip cookie texture with intense lemon flavor and nuts. I can’t decide how much I like it. I definite love lemon and intense lemon and this is lemony enough (I added more juice than called for), and I love all nuts, but together I can’t wrap my head around why I am not sure if I’ll come back to this or not. I did sub pecans because I didn’t have walnuts. Maybe that sub ruined the harmony? Something felt slightly off balance.

• Pumpkins rocks

  • peregrinesandcougars on September 05, 2023

    Perfect in every way. Texture, size, not too sweet. Added a brown butter glaze instead of lemon glaze from original recipe. Do not flatten, used a 1 TB full cookie scoop and had the perfect "rock" effect.

• Hermit bars

  • Christinalego on September 01, 2020

    These are not sweet. I won’t make them again.

  • ashallen on July 20, 2021

    These were good, but they're not my dream hermits. My dream-hermits are fudgy and a bit chewy. Wanting to make sure these didn't dry out, I checked them after 20 minutes and pulled them immediately - 10 minutes before the 30 minutes called for in the recipe. The central third was moist and fudgy though unfortunately not chewy. It then got drier and more cake-like away from the center. Nice dark spice flavors, though I missed the bite that comes from using some ginger and/or black pepper and the bit of bitterness from using walnuts vs. pecans. I skipped the glaze because I found the bars to be sweet enough without it. I prefer Carole Walters' hermits recipe to this one, though I'm still hunting for that dream recipe...

• Cinnamon almond cookies

  • loehmichen on July 16, 2018

    Delicious family favorite since 1980!

• Sesame fingers

  • cellenly on June 24, 2023

    Made for a group who aren’t into very sweet sweets. It has a delicate lightly sweet with lightly nutty flavor. Well balanced. Not as crumbly as shortbread but has that delicate flavor of lightly sweet shortbread cookies. Hardest part is cutting into even slices. Doesn’t look very polished because of uneven thickness. Next time, I want to see how it would be rolling it out with a 1/8” roller then cutting into squares/rectangles. Only the side down browned and the top remained fairly pale except on edges.