Cookies
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Homemade cookies are so incredibly delectable…especially warm right out of the oven. Every weekend I make cookies. It takes less than 30 minutes to whip up the ingredients and then bake them off, so I feel like that’s time well spent on my part. Let’s face it, we’re all crazy-busy and time is valuable – thirty minutes is a good chunk to part with! Plus? COOKIE DOUGH. This weekend I let my five year old decide which cookies we’d be having this week. Chocolate chip cookies. With chocolate cookies. In grown-up speak I take this to mean double chocolate chip cookies. And, ABSOLUTELY. Only 10 ingredients, all of which you can pronounce…
Snickerdoodles
These Snickerdoodles are simple to make, soft and chewy and filled with sweet cinnamon flavor. More and more I’m trying to cook things from scratch. I’ve made Italian bread, French bread, pizza dough and biscuits and one day I plan to try my hand at homemade mozzarella and ricotta cheeses, too! Making breads from scratch is exponentially easier with a KitchenAid mixer, something I didn’t use when I made my first ball of dough. It’s super hard work to knead dough by hand, especially bread dough. If you don’t already own one, it’s something to save up for or ask for as a gift. I LOVE mine. Other baked goods are much…
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are one of my absolute favorite cookies on the planet. I use my go-to recipe about once a month (sometimes more often) and it always produces a classic, soft and chewy winner. Today on this rainy, dreary Saturday afternoon, I decided to make another batch. Except that – GASP! – I did two things differently. The first thing was to add oatmeal to the cookie dough. I like a warm oatmeal raisin cookie now and again, but not enough that I make them a lot at home. Oatmeal and chocolate chips, however? Mind blowing. I used quick cook oats because that’s what I happened to have in…
Almond Lime Snowball Cookies
Growing up, the women on my dad’s side always got together to make Christmas cookies. It was a day full of sugar cookies with powdered sugar icing, pinwheels, mini chocolate chip cookies and powdered sugar covered snowball cookies, all beautifully arranged in Christmas-themed cookie tins. We made the same four kinds of Christmas cookies every single year, which is exactly what you want with a holiday tradition, especially when you’re a kid. Those snowball cookies were one of my favorites, and this update to a classic recipe — almond lime snowball cookies — is the perfect, festive holiday recipe to add to your cookie list. As an Amazon Associate I earn…
Holiday Chocolate Sugar Cookies
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pompeian Grapeseed Oil Spray for yummy holiday chocolate sugar cookies. It’s time to start thinking about holiday baking, right? Thanksgiving is next week (GAH!), and yet I feel like school just started, summer just ended and the leaves just began to change. Now all of the sudden I’m looking out at leaf-free branches and we’re entering the last week of November. Yikes! Holiday Cookie Baking During the holidays my family has always made (and devoured) loads of cookies. It was a tradition growing up to go to my grandparents’ house and bake the same 4-5 different types of cookies…
Blueberry Crumble Bars
These blueberry crumble bars are like a dessert masquerading as a breakfast. How bad can that be? (As Ina would say…) This year school starts a week earlier than normal in our county. Next Monday, to be exact: August 19. Does that seem early to you? It did to us. I remember when I was a kid, back in 1980-something, school started after Labor Day, not a couple weeks before. Summer seemed endless and we spent several weeks of August at my grandparents’ shore house in Connecticut, with plenty of room to spare before school began. This early start may be crappy from a kid’s perspective, but as a full-time working…
Soft and Chewy Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
These classic soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies will have you coming back for more. Best eaten warm with a cold glass of milk! Soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies? Why not! (But first … let me back up.) In 2012 we took an amazing two week vacation to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, which (aside from my handy-dandy smart phone) had no in-house internet options. *Gah!* To many people, the fact that there wasn’t an internet connection simply isn’t that big of a deal. “Oh! I don’t have to check my AOL email account, so what?” But to someone like me who’s on the internet machine (thanks for introducing us…
Two Bite Oatmeal Raisin Pecan Cookies
If you’ve just stumbled upon my blog you might think that I’m the baker-type of foodie. Couldn’t be further from the truth. While I do dabble in a slight bit of baking, it’s definitely not my strong suit and my recipes often include the words “simple” or “rustic” to hide the fact that I’m just not a perfectionist in the bakery world, unlike some of my blogger counterparts. I like easy dessert recipes. This past weekend I did have some fun with the sweeter side of foodie-dom by way of a sugar-free peach vanilla pudding pie for my diabetic in-laws and strawberry shortcake cupcakes for my side’s Father’s Day celebration, which…
