Because she's awesome

It's a friend's birthday today. I'm planning to make cookies for him. Where do you go when you want a great cookie recipe? I could go to allrecipes, to find reviews by other bakers and adjust the written recipe to suit. Or, I could go to one of the best bakers I know, a woman who still takes the time to make croissants from scratch.

Come to the dark side. Brigid has cookies!

http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2011/11/cookies-to-die-for.html

Oh, what cookies!

http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2005/03/molasses-cookies-with-espresso-sugar.html

and then there's the brownies...

http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2008/01/bacon-butterscotch-brownies-with-salted.html

She also has a new book out!

Saving Grace is a series of thoughts, writing almost poetic in its ability to create a song and assemble entire pictures out of shadows on love, and the family we're born with, the family we meet along the way, and the families we make ourselves.

http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Grace-Adoption-L-B-Johnson/dp/1478754141/

Kindle book should follow in the next few days!