Classic Brownie Cookies as seen on George Hirsch Lifestyle

a Classic, cookies, and milk on George Hirsch Lifestyle

Chocolate treat, under 30 minutes - mixing and baking. But can you wait 24 hours? Probably not, but just save a few because these cookies actually taste even better a few days after baking. Eyes go wide open on the first bite. Try my recipe for yourself, and you'll agree. For best results, use a good-quality cocoa powder.

Classic Brownie Cookies

Makes 3 dozen large or 6 dozen small 

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1 1/3 cups butter

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

1 Tablespoon vanilla

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups flour

2/3 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2teaspoon salt

3 Tablespoons milk

1 1/2 cups pecans, chopped 

1 cup mini chocolate chips, semi-sweet, or chopped chocolate

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar one minute, or until creamy.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating lightly after each.

Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating at low speed about 1 minute, or just until blended.

Stir in nuts and chocolate chips.

Drop dough with cookie scoop (heaping 2 Tablespoons) on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. 

Bake at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes. Cookies will still appear soft and moist when baked, but firm up on cooling.

Cool slightly, then remove to a cooling rack. About 3 dozen cookies.

Tip: Smaller cookies can be made using 1 Tablespoon of dough for each cookie, baking for 8 to 10 minutes.

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Gather 'Round the Grill Cookbook, Vintage (new)

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From the original Grilling TV Series host, 200 Fabulous Recipe—Celebrating the joyous rituals of sharing food at year-round festivities, the star of PBS's Grilling with Chef George Hirsch provides a wealth of recipes and ideas for great party foods, plus advance preparation tips to ease the strain of last minute chores.

• Hardcover: 310 pages

• Publisher: Hearst Books-HarperCollins; 1St edition (June 12, 1995)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0688142257

• ISBN-13: 978-0688142254

• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches

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George Hirsch Living it UP! cooking & lifestyle book

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This easy to live with lifestyle plan; with more than 165 of George's easy-to-prepare gourmet recipes, you can lose weight, maintain energy, look better, and enjoy a longer active life, by eating great food!
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George Starts your year off right!

George Hirsch Living it UP
Recipes for a Healthy Active Life
Product Details
Hardcover: 240 pages; $24.95
Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.; 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0871319241
ISBN-13: 978-0871319241
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches

Creative Cooking tips
Fast Easy recipes that allow for an active lifestyle
A 30-Day Menu Plan you can adapt throughout the year
Support and motivation for staying on a healthy eating & exercise routine
Tips for easy food shopping & eating healthy on the run

Each book is personally autographed by George Hirsch.

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Southern Italian Cookies

Guest post + recipe today by Marie Bianco, my dear friend, food writer, and author. This is one of her favorite holiday cookie recipes.

Edible holiday gifts always make a hit, and this one is about as easy as it can get. Even school-age children can get into the act. 

Pignoli cookies can cost up to $16 to $20 a pound if you buy them at an Italian bakery, but these Southern Italian holiday favorites are so easy to make you’ll want to make plenty and give them as gifts.

Pignoli Cookies

8 ounces pignoli (pine nuts)

½ cup granulated sugar

½ confectioners’ sugar

¼ cup all-purpose flour

Dash salt

1 (8 ounces) almond paste

2 egg whites, slightly beaten

½ teaspoon almond extract

Confectioners’ sugar for dusting

1. preheat oven to 300 degrees—line 2 cookie sheets with Teflon or Silpat liners or lightly butter them. Place pignoli in a shallow dish.

2. Combine granulated sugar, confectioners’ sugar, flour, and salt in a medium bowl and lightly whisk. 

3. Break up the almond paste with your fingers and place it in a mixing bowl of an electric mixer. Add the egg whites and beat on low speed until smooth. You can use a hand mixer, but you’ll need a strong arm if you do it by hand. 

4. Add the almond extract and the flour mixture and beat until flour is blended in about 30 seconds. Do not overbeat.

5. Using a teaspoon, scoop up a rounded spoon of dough and cover it with pignoli. Place on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Wash sticky dough off your hands and keep them clean. 

6. Bake the cookies for 18 to 25 minutes, depending on if you like them soft or chewy. Cool 1 minute before removing them from the rack. Dust with confectioners’ sugar. Makes about 30 cookies.

Hints for making pignoli.

Always use almond paste, not marzipan, which is a combination of almond paste and sugar.

Break up the almond paste into small pieces with your fingers. If the almond paste has hardened, grate it using the large hole on a four-sided grater.

A small amount of flour will keep the cookies from spreading too much.

The size of the dough ball determines the size of the cookie. Make them smaller if you want more cookies.

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AS SEEN ON PUBLIC TELEVISION & CREATE TV- SEASON ONE
FEATURING CHEF GEORGE HIRSCH DEMONSTRATING HIS SAVORY COOKING, BAKING AND GRILLING RECIPES; WITH HIS EXPERT CULINARY TIPS & TECHNIQUES, ALONG WITH VISITS TO HIS INSPIRING HAMPTON LOCATIONS.

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George Hirsch Living it UP! cooking & lifestyle book

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This easy to live with lifestyle plan; with more than 165 of George's easy-to-prepare gourmet recipes, you can lose weight, maintain energy, look better, and enjoy a longer active life, by eating great food!
M.Evans and Company, Inc.

George Starts your year off right!

George Hirsch Living it UP
Recipes for a Healthy Active Life
Product Details
Hardcover: 240 pages; $24.95
Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.; 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0871319241
ISBN-13: 978-0871319241
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches

Creative Cooking tips
Fast Easy recipes that allow for an active lifestyle
A 30-Day Menu Plan you can adapt throughout the year
Support and motivation for staying on a healthy eating & exercise routine
Tips for easy food shopping & eating healthy on the run

Each book is personally autographed by George Hirsch.

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