Though you may not want to use your best bottle of bourbon for your infusion experiments, we do suggest that you choose a dependable label for your creative undertakings. Maker's Mark is a fine place ...

Kate Wheeler of Pasadena was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these bourbon balls: “Something about the flavor of liquor in desserts just screams ...

I like cookies. This is fact. I more than like whiskey. This is indisputably fact. Does it stand to reason, then, that I would like whiskey cookies? If you just smash together two good things, does it ...

There is something about the smell of browned butter that always takes me back to my grandmother's kitchen. She used to say that butter tells you when it is ready if you listen closely, and I remember ...

Liquor food — loosely defined as an unexpected pairing of alcohol and comestible — is having something of a moment. Yeah, we know rum cake and tiramisu aren't exactly new, but lately a lot of people ...

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar 1 large egg 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup ground pecans 2 tablespoons bourbon — CHOCOLATE BOURBON ...

Within the past six months, the new-to-town Coffee Zone has slowly built followings at its comfortable, Christmas-loving shops in the Highlands and Westport Village. The shops are among several that ...

Baking guru Rose Levy Beranbaum’s newest cookbook, “The Cookie Bible” (Harvest, $35), includes 150 recipes that range from simple drop cookies to showstoppers — and these no-bake wonders. Bourbon ...

Pat Bruner calls herself a cookie baker. She’s also a longtime entertainer. So each holiday season, she spends a lot of her time in the kitchen baking cookies and preparing her Bourbon Balls ...

Sometimes you just want a no-bake cookie recipe that’s short, sweet and easy. Of course, there’s an added bonus if it includes bourbon. This recipe comes courtesy of reader Kate Wheeler of Pasadena.