Sarah kieffer

Perfectly spiced, ginger molasses cookies with rippled edges and a chewy center. Uses the pan-banging cookie technique to get their famous look!

If you’ve logged onto social media in the past year, chances are you’ve come across Sarah Kieffer’s pan-banging chocolate chip cookies. Thanks to a somewhat unusual technique, these cookies have picture-perfect ridges that make for a seriously striking photo. The trick that gives them their unique texture? Banging the cookie sheet tray against the counter every few minutes as the cookies bake — so that the cookies deflate and give way to a distinctive crinkled texture.

These melt in your mouth vanilla shortbread cookies are buttery and delightful. This recipe has both granulated and confectioner's sugar for the perfect texture. Easy to make and they store well for cookie boxes.

These buttery, tender raspberry scones have both raspberry jam and fresh berries. The jam boosted flavor and help the berries adhere, and the scones bak up tall and lofty. A drizzle of icing while keeps the scones stay tender for hours after baking.

The Minnesota creator of The Vanilla Bean Blog has a new cookie cookbook out, and she’s flat-out the best pan banger.

This shortbread is crisp and buttery, with plenty of vanilla flavor and a dusting of granulated sugar on top. The dough is pressed into a pan to make things easy and cut into long rectangles when finished baking.

I love reviewing cookbooks. I don’t often cook from cookbooks actually, since for the most part I look for recipes based on ingredients instead of finding what I want to cook and purchasing the ing…

An honest, in-depth review of the Instagram-famous pan-banging chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Tender and delicious oatmeal scones with a maple glaze, with an easy preparation.

MN-based baker Sarah Kieffer (of pan-banging fame) shares her Neapolitan cookie recipe from her "100 Cookies" book