Buttery Snacks

The key to easy, scrumptious cookies, is good butter! Initially, pastry chef Anita Chu was a structural engineer from Berkeley with a knack for baking. This eventually lead to her working on her “Field guide to cookies.” An adaptation of Parisian pastry chef Arnaud Larher’s, her favorite cookie is the chunky TV snack, or croq-…

Chess Pie

Adopted from Julia Reed’s Southern Cookbook, these delectable little bars are a perfect picnic versions of the traditional custard pie. Unlike lemon bars with their iconic lip-puckering citrus, these instead have a blanket of egg-rich custard, laced liberally with vanilla, on top of a delicious crumbly, lightly salted shortbread crust. If buttermilk is unavailable, you…