—Season 9 — Cookies! — begins March 31 on KPBS TV—
Learn to create the finest desserts and goodies in your own home on MARTHA BAKES.
Martha Stewart shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving you the confidence to create delectable baked goods — from scratch — in your own kitchen.
Martha’s updated versions of the classics set the standard, while her uses of flavors and ingredients add new angles to some familiar favorites.
Get Martha's recipes from the series.
EPISODE GUIDE:
Episode 1: “Scandinavian Cookies” airs Saturday, March 31 at 2:30 p.m. - Scandinavians are famous for their baking prowess. And when it comes to cookies, they do not disappoint.
Today on MARTHA BAKES, three traditional Scandinavian favorites: the now famous Danish butter cookie sold in their iconic blue tin, a spicy nutmeg cookie called muskotsnittar, and unbeatably tender jam-filled Finnish stars.
Recipes that you're your family will soon be find of!
Episode 2: “Cookies of Australia & New Zealand” airs Saturday, April 7 at 2:30 p.m. - Enjoy treats from Down Under: chocolate mint sandwich cookies based on an Australian favorite, iconic ginger biscuits made with a flavor-packed ginger trifecta and melting moment cookies with a passion fruit filling.
Episode 3: "North American Cookies” airs Saturday, April 14 at 2:30 p.m. - Get updates to three classics: maple cream sandwich cookies with buttery shortbread and a rich maple cream, an amped up chocolate chip cookie made with an astonishing number of chocolate chips, and bigger and better oatmeal raisin cookies.
Episode 4: “Cookies of Austria, Germany & Switzerland” airs Saturday, April 21 at 2:30 p.m. - Learn to bake traditional holiday recipes that have become year-round favorites: whimsically shaped chräbeli that get their distinctive flavor from anise, show-stopping jam-filled linzer cookies, and pfeffernusse, flavored with warm spices.
Episode 5: “Latin American Cookies” airs Saturday, April 28 at 2:30 p.m. - Relish three iconic recipes: cinnamon-sugar-coated polvorones, from the word polvo, meaning “dust” in Spanish; bite-sized sandwich cookies known as casadinhos, from the Portuguese word for married; and Guatemalan champurradas made with sesame seeds.
Episode 6: “Eastern European Cookies” airs Saturday, May 5 at 2:30 p.m. - Savor treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation. Martha shares her memory of a family favorite, Polish chrusciki, learned from her mother. Then she shows Russian goose feet, jam-filled kolaches and spiced pryaniki.
Episode 7: “Italian Cookies” airs Saturday, May 12 at 2:30 p.m. - Savor three of Martha’s Italian favorites: chestnut-filled baci di dama from the Piedmont region, Tuscan twice-baked cookies known as cantucci, and brutti ma buoni, a combination of chopped hazelnuts, bittersweet chocolate and meringue.
Episode 8: “Cookies of Great Britain” airs Saturday, May 19 at 2:30 p.m. - Join Martha as she shares three classic cookies, or “biscuits” as the British say: traditional English shortbread, Welsh bakestones, a cross between a chubby cookie and a scone, and Celtic knots, known for their intricate trefoil pattern.
Episode 9: “Middle Eastern Cookies” airs Saturday, May 26 at 2:30 p.m. - Learn how warm spices, dried fruit fillings and fragrant ingredients deliver big flavor in three irresistible treats: date-filled ma’amoul stamped with a geometric pattern, unusually textured Iranian rice cookies and tahini cookies.
Episode 10: “Cookies Of Greece” airs Saturday, June 23 - Create the authentic flavors of Greece using a variety of ingredients: walnut and honey in baklava, kourabiedes, with mastiha lending a gentle pine and anise flavor, and paximadia, imbued with ouzo, sesame seeds and a hint of orange.
Episode 11: “Cookies of the Netherlands” airs Saturday, June 30 at 2:30 p.m. - Learn how three famous cookies got their unusual names: speculaas, traditionally formed using carved wooden molds, stroopwafels, made from two waffles sandwiched with caramel, and buttery, crisp arnhemse meisjes, named for the girls of Arnhem.
Episode 12: “Classic Italian Cookies” airs Saturday, July 7 at 2:30 p.m. - Savor three scrumptious cookies that signify la dolce vita: Sicilian buccellati, filled with a combination of pecans, figs and raisins, Italian wafer cookies known as pizzelle and the distinctive diamond-shaped zaleti found throughout Venice.
Episode 13: “French Cookies” airs Saturday, July 14 at 2:30 p.m. - Use time-tested techniques in three renowned favorites: papillons, with their caramelized exteriors and flakey layers within, French meringues in a rainbow of colors and flavors, and perhaps the most popular cookie in France, sables Bretons.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION + SHARE RECIPES:
Martha Stewart is on Facebook, Instagram, and you can follow @MarthaStewart on Twitter.
PBS Food is on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and you can follow @PBSFood on Twitter.
