Sweet & Spicy Cookies

Sweet & Spicy Cookies What a busy, busy, September, (daughter and niece got married), October, November, December and most of this January has been for me! Please forgive me as this blog has been put on the back burner as life had taken over.  And even in all that hustle, bustle, bake-a-thon that went on here, [...]

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Goat Cheese Rugelach – “Goat: Meat * Milk * Cheese” Cookbook Review

Recently I was sent “Goat: Meat * Milk * Cheese”  by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough in exchange for a review.  If you’ve encountered any of Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough books, you already know you’re in for a fun, hilarious, delicious round of good cooking!  This book is no exception.  This is their 18th [...]

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The Best Ginger Cookies EVER!! – Sugar Baby Review

Recently, I was sent “Sugar Baby Confections, Candies, Cakes & Other Delicious Recipes for Cooking With Sugar – By Gesine Bullock-Prado” in exchange for a review.   How lucky can one person be?   I was excited to rip open the package and dig this book out, and it does NOT disappoint!    Cooking with sugar can [...]

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Cookie Arrangements for Valentine’s Day!

For Valentine’s Day, I made cookie arrangements for the kids teachers.  I recently bought the Wilton Heart Cookie Treat pan.  It works great, and makes nice, big cookie hearts to decorate. I used stencils to decorate the cookies.  The recipe I used for the cookie dough can be found here. These cookies taste great and [...]

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Sarabeth’s Linzer Cookies

(The above Image, taken from Leite’s Culinaria from inset picture of Linzer Hearts from the book Sarabeth’s Bakery.) “Sarabeth’s  Bakery” – From my hands to  yours by Sarabeth Levine.  What a beautiful, outstanding, inspiring, informational book it is, and I highly recommend it as a must have for anyone that loves to bake!)  This particular [...]

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Double Butterscotch Cookies – Wedding Favors

These are one of the best cookies!  Once you eat one, you can’t stop!  I recently made these for a wedding as Thank you favors.  We dipped some in chocolate halfway and left one plain as we packed them into favor containers. Everyone raved about these cookies! These are delicious and is one of our [...]

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Sugar Cookies & Happy Talented Kids!

My Grand Daughter’s love baking and helping out in the kitchen.  They recently asked if we could make sugar cookies and decorate them. Who am I to resist A perfectly good reason to bake some cookies. Introducing The Players: That’s my daughter Sherie, and Alexis my Oldest Grand Daughter. And this is Anna the second [...]

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Gum Drop Cookies

These cookies are really good, and so was the help that I had in the kitchen this evening. This is Anna, my Grand daughter. Anna, has been helping in the kitchen for a few years now, and has become quite the good cookie maker. We doubled the recipe to make lots of cookies. Gum Drop Cookies Adapted from: [...]

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Granola Cookies

This is my Favorite Cookie!! I am not a person much for oats. But this recipe, uses granola in the recipe and the first time I made these, I couldn’t stop eating them. They are delicious!! I Doubled the recipe. These are going on my Holiday Trays. (That is if they make it out the [...]

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