The simplest dessert is a bowl of raw fruit. To cheer it up, it is useful to have some homemade cookies around, especially some that will keep in an air-tight container. (Adding a heel of stale bread to the container helps to keep the cookies fresh.) These three out-of-the-ordinary cookies—if a macaroon can be called a cookie—are versatile enough to go with many flavors.

Recipe: Ginger Wafers (Barbara Kafka Dessert Anthology)
Recipe: Chocolate Macaroons (Barbara Kafka Dessert Anthology)
Recipe: Classic Ladyfingers (Barbara Kafka Dessert Anthology)

(This is the fifth installment of The Barbara Kafka Dessert Anthology.)

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