Andrew Carmellini

Andrew Carmellini · American Flavor

Karen DeMasco, the pastry chef at Locanda Verde, is a genius big-deal award-winning New York pastry queen - but she's also a Midwestern girl at heart, and a Clevelander just like me. That means she loves really old-school American desserts - and nobody, but nobody, makes a better cookie that Karen. This is her version of the classic after-school recipe - only much, much better.