Buttery Jam Cookies

Or the cookies that weren’t…cookies.  I should have read the description better instead of skipping the intro and jumping straight to the recipe details!  These were like…fluffy biscuits, with the ginger flavor overpowering the last of my beloved raspberry-lemon jam.  I honestly thought these were gross, but fortunately Tyler likes them, so they are not [...]

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peanut butter, oatmeal, and chocolate!

What a great combo!  I bookmarked this recipe a couple of weeks ago and was just waiting for some free time to make them.  They were quick and easy to whip up and a fabulous cookie to share or keep all to yourself! Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (from Brown Eyed Baker) Makes about 24 [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

I baked up a batch of these sugar cookies, but since I didn’t have time to frost them, I dipped half of them in pink candy melt (with a vanilla flavor).  They turned  out super cute!  I shared them with my classmates and the nursing staff at my internship and they were a hit.  I [...]

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Macaroons

I grew up eating chocolate macaroons, and until last month had never tried a regular macaroon.  I tried one in San Francisco and WOW, it was fantastic!  I do love coconut after all!  So for a quick and easy dessert to take to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt’s, I decided to whip up a batch. [...]

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Sugar Cookie Frosting

I absolutely love this sugar cookie recipe, made it for the first time last Christmas and it’s a keeper.  However I’ve been having trouble finding a frosting recipe that 1) contains no shortening or margarine or corn syrup, ingredients I hate using. 2) dries well enough that you can stack the cookies after they are [...]

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Sugar Cookies

Last year the sugar cookies I made turned out wonderfully, but when I used the recipe again at Halloween this year the cookies and the frosting didn’t turn out well at all, probably due to human error.  I decided to try new recipes this year since there are so many out there and I’d been [...]

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Chocolate Macaroons

Last year I made a batch of chocolate macaroons but didn’t use my mom’s recipe, just one I found online that I thought looked the same.  They weren’t the same and I really didn’t like the melted chocolate.  Cocoa is just way better in this recipe in my opinion!  So this year I used my [...]

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peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for quite some time now and they did not disappoint!  I forgot to squish the first batch with a fork so they came out dense and not so good, but I remembered from then on out and the rest were perfect! The Best Peanut Butter Cookies (as seen on Baking [...]

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The Welcome Wagon

In the last 3 weeks we’ve had two new neighbors move into our apartment building. We were SO HAPPY that the old upstairs neighbor moved out since he frequently kept us up late at night with his drunken arguments and *ahem* other noisy activities. We were home and able to promptly greet our new neighbors [...]

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Snickerdoodles

I’ve been in the mood to make cookies recently and even though I have several partial bags of chocolate chips and nuts begging to be plucked from their shelf in the pantry, I opted for a simpler recipe that I knew Tyler would go nutso over.  I’ve never really seen the appeal in a cookie [...]

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