COOKIES

A collection of posts about the best cookie recipes using the best ingredients and easy, reliable techniques – sustainable to help lower your carbon footprint.

Gluten-Free Rosette Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 2, 2023September 2, 2023

This is the best gluten-free recipe for Scandinavian Rosette cookies – based on our traditional family recipe. Updated with nut oil and almond milk to add flavor, but also to make these cookies healthier and climate friendly.

Best Rosette Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 1, 2023September 2, 2023

This is the best recipe for Scandinavian Rosette cookies – based on our traditional family recipe. Updated with nut oil and almond milk to add flavor, but also to make these cookies healthier and climate friendly.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Without Butter

Cookie Recipes without Butter

by Lisa LeCoump
June 22, 2023September 2, 2023

This is a collection of some of our best cookie recipes that are made without no butter.

Best Sablé Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
January 11, 2023September 2, 2023

For the best French Sablé Cookie recipe, also called Sablés pour le Thé, or French Tea Sablés, start with the very best ingredients. This is a basic recipe for French butter cookies that opens up a world of possibilities.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Without Butter

by Lisa LeCoump
August 11, 2022September 2, 2023

We made this chocolate chip cookie recipe without butter to make these cookies healthier and with a smaller carbon footprint. We used walnut oil instead. It is also one of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes ever. They are crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, loaded with flavor and big chunks of chocolate.

Best Russian Tea Cakes Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
June 15, 2022July 12, 2023

We created the best Russian Tea Cakes recipe made with browned butter, toasted pecans and maple syrup, and then double rolled in powdered sugar.

Irish Shortbread Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
March 17, 2022July 12, 2023

This Irish Shortbread cookie recipe is so easy to make. But there are a few secrets that you need to know.

The Best Basler Brunsli Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
January 17, 2022September 2, 2023

This is the best Basler Brunsli recipe we have ever had. We found it while visiting Basel, Switzerland.

Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
December 5, 2021September 5, 2023

Our Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe is a good way to use up leftover Halloween candy – sort of a “Nightmare before Christmas” cookie

Oatmeal Cookie Recipe No Butter

by Lisa LeCoump
October 15, 2021September 2, 2023

A great Oatmeal Cookie Recipe with no Butter – Crisp on the Outside, Chewy in the Center – Roasted Pecan Oil, Toasted Oats and Ground Pecans

“While traveling the world and looking for the best ingredients, we found that many producers who care about quality also care about sustainability. We discovered that by choosing the best ingredients we had reduced our carbon footprint. A few more changes, and we cut our carbon footprint in half! Then we realized that if everyone did this, it would have a big effect on climate change. Little changes add up to something big. Little things matter. We could save the world, one cookie at a time.”

Professional Photographer - Food Photographer, Wedding Photographer. Lisa was previously the Deputy Agricultural Commissioner, responsible for reviewing and enforcing organic regulations and Environmental Protection Agency pesticide use regulations. She also worked for years as an Agricultural Advisor in California, a farmer in California, and an Agricultural Extension Agent in Thailand. She received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from California State University, Chico and studied Integrated Pest Management at U.C., Davis, which involved farming methods that preserve the environment.