Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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Maida Heatter

  • Peppermint Patty Brownies

    Peppermint Patty Brownies

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    Some recipes just scream “Christmas!” and one of those recipes is Maida Heatter’s Palm Beach Brownies with Chocolate-Covered Mints (aka: Peppermint Patty Brownies). I stumbled upon this recipe while flipping through her post-humous book, Happiness is Baking. The second I saw the ingredients — the normal brownie stuff + 2 1/2 12-ounce bags York chocolate-covered…

  • Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

    Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

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    I rewrote and revised the first sentence of my novel Food Person so many times, I know the finished one by heart: “Isabella Pasternak baked treats to bring to work every day; not as a way to endear herself to her co-workers, but as a way to avoid them.”