Shortbread Candy Cookie Recipe
Posted on October 5, 2009 - Filed Under Cookies | 3 Comments
Today felt like summer again, with temperatures that encouraged us to shed the socks and pants and re-embrace our leg-baring attire. When I felt how warm it was, I silently wished that the weather would make up its mind: is it winter or summer? But I didn’t really mean it. Summer can stick around all [...]
Read More..>>Mmm … Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Posted on August 18, 2009 - Filed Under Cookies | 8 Comments
I had every intention of posting my usual Fertile Friday post on Friday. It’s something that I have loved doing all summer, since I am so happy with the progress I’ve made this year. And it’s something that I want to continue until the growing is done. But this past week, I just needed a [...]
Read More..>>The Cook Bakes: Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
Posted on July 15, 2009 - Filed Under Cookies | 6 Comments
Some people are bakers. They savor the exacting measurements that come along with creating perfect, moist, delectable breads and sweets. Other people are cooks, who find joy in the chopping, sauteing and forgiving nature of creating savory dishes. I know very few people who really love to both cook and bake. For me, I definitely [...]
Read More..>>Cinnamon-Sugary Goodness: Snickerdoodles
Posted on June 18, 2009 - Filed Under Cookies | 2 Comments
I first learned about snickerdoodles when I was about seven and read the recipe in my elementary school’s fundraiser cookbook. As much as I wanted to try to make them then and there, they were a little intimidating (partially because they were unlike any cookie I had ever had and partially because the only cookies [...]
Read More..>>Christmas Cookies: Conquering My Fear of Meringue
Posted on December 21, 2008 - Filed Under Cookies | 2 Comments
When I started baking from scratch, I was a preteen. I scoured the Joy of Cooking for an easy cookie recipe that included ingredients we kept in the house. I found that in a sugar drop cookie recipe. Before long, I was adapting the recipe to make thumbprint cookies, decorated cookies and more.
One year, my [...]
Christmas Cookies: Deconstructed Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Cookies | 3 Comments
Will pulled up a chair to the counter the other day, as he often does when I am cooking. He was waiting patiently for me to give him the go-ahead to add chocolate chips to the firm cookie dough whirling in my KitchenAid Artisan Mixer. Usually, he helps sift and add the flour mixture to [...]
Read More..>>Iced Pumpkin Cookies Recipe,
Posted on October 26, 2008 - Filed Under Cookies | 3 Comments
It’s been quite a while since I last baked. Baking takes precision, measuring, several bowls … all excesses that I just haven’t had time for recently. I’ve been working hard on writing, taking care of my children all the while. Life, it just keeps moving no matter how much you wish it would slow down [...]
Read More..>>Salted Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Cookies | 5 Comments
It all started last night, when one of my oldest friends called to say that she and her family were in the area. They wanted to get together. Sure, great! I thought. Living in two different states and different worlds – her in the city and I in the burbs, it certainly hasn’t been easy [...]
Read More..>>Deconstructed Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies
Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Cookies, Gifting Goodies | 1 Comment
Christmas has come and gone. I did most of my shopping online this year, even though I love the crowds (gasp, I know) and the decorated stores with carols playing in the background. It just wasn’t possible with a newborn and a toddler this year . . .
Snow and ice prevented us from decorating for [...]
Homemade Gifts: White Chocolate Ginger Biscotti
Posted on December 21, 2007 - Filed Under Cookies, dessert | 1 Comment
Today, I made peppermint bark, dozens and dozens of vanilla bean cookies, a roast, roasted potatoes, and other things that elude me. And now, I can barely keep my eyes open. Scratch that. I can’t keep my eyes open. It’s been a long day.
Back to the biscotti – this is the second year that I [...]
