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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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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Hidden Valley Ranch Buffalo Wings

Gone are the days when Chicken wings were a mere .29 cents a pound. When you could walk into the supermarket and pickup a package of chicken wings for pennies!  Chicken wings have long since turned into one of those prime premiere, lip smacking, delicacies that  can no longer be ignored and for good reason; [...]

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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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Raspberry Miroire & Some Dessert ideas for your Holiday Table

Some of you may or may not know, that I have a dessert blog too!  I have a tremendous sweet tooth, and LOVE making desserts.  I recently made a Raspberry Miroire that I’d like to share with readers of Fire up the Oven.  I am providing a link over to my dessert blog: Delectable desserts.  [...]

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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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Charoset Truffles

I found these little beauties on the Mac & Cheese Blog. I had never heard of these let alone tasted one of these truffles. Taking a look at the ingredients, I found that I had all the fixings.  These are Delicious. Charoset Truffles Slightly adapted from: Mac & Cheese Blog 2 Cups Pitted Dates 1/2 [...]

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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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