Today’s guest is Mallory Oniki, recipe developer, food photographer, and the creator behind The Palatable Life. Mallory is known for her creative, flavor-packed bakes, especially her cookie recipes inspired by pop culture. Her debut cookbook, “Cookie Club: 80 Creative Cookies to Make, Swap, and Share,” is out April 14th.

Mallory joins host Jessie Sheehan to talk about her baking journey, from childhood kitchen experiments to teaching herself how to develop recipes in college. She shares how launching her food blog and social media during the pandemic led to her breakout cookie series inspired by movies and TV shows, including “Stranger Things,” “Gilmore Girls,” and “Ted Lasso,” and how that momentum helped her turn content creation into a full-time career.

They also dig into “Cookie Club,” and Mallory walks Jessie through three of her recipes in it: classic shortbread rounds, “Ted Lasso”–inspired shortbread cookies, and her “Clueless” checkerboard shortbread. 

Click here for Mallory’s “Clueless” Checkerboard Shortbread Cookie recipe. 

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More on Mallory: Instagram, website, “Cookie Club” cookbook