Cooking With Kids: Chocolate Butterscotch Cookie Bars Recipe

Posted on January 11, 2010 - Filed Under A Little Help, Cookies, Recipes, cooking with kids, dessert | 2 Comments

In thinking about today’s post, I thought it was a little ironic that I wrote about getting your kids more active on Friday and am writing about sweets today. But irony aside, these things can really coexist. Afterall, raising a healthy family and leading a healthy life is not about deprivation. It’s about moderation, balance, [...]

Cooking With Kids: Chocolate Covered S’mores Grahams Recipe

Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Cookies, Feeding Kids, Recipes, cooking with kids | 4 Comments

Ever since Will was old enough to stand, he’s been helping me in the kitchen. Paige too. They can spin salads to remove water like nobody’s business. They know how to tear lettuce into bite-sized pieces, measure ingredients and sift. They can mix and fold. Will knows how to add the flour mixture to wet [...]

Steel Cut Oatmeal Scotchies Cookies Recipe

Posted on December 28, 2009 - Filed Under Cookies, Recipes | 3 Comments

Twas the afternoon before Christmas. No, really. It was.
While Paige napped on Christmas Eve, Will and I set about to make some Oatmeal Scotchies – one of my very favorite cookies. We measured and mixed, and everything was going perfectly … until I discovered that we were out of the rolled oats (as in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 | 4 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 [...]

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 [...]

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