Warning: Long story ahead. If all you want is the recipe for the amazing, colorful cookies pictured above, go ahead & click “continue reading”. Lisa was one of my closest friends in high school. She was also my first culinary-minded friend. She liked to cook and bake as much as I did. At the time [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cookies’
Ginger Krinkles
By now, everyone knows that I think food should be attractive or, at least, colorful. I feel the same way about cookbooks. They should have lots of pretty, colorful pictures. So I was a happy baker when my aunt gave me a copy of Mary Engelbreit’s Cookies Cookbook. This book is a treasure trove of [...]
Soft & Colorful Sugar Cookies
For the longest time, I thought of sugar cookies as Christmas cookies. I had really only ever made or decorated them at Christmas with my family. But the first time I made them on my own, it was for a Halloween party. I had purchased 101 cookie cutters a couple months earlier and didn’t want [...]
Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
After all of the holiday baking was done, I promised my husband I would bake him anything he wanted. His request? Chocolate-chip cookies. My immediate response was to harass him about his “boring” taste in baked goods. Then he specified that he wanted ridiculously big, thick, chewy chocolate chip cookies. Since my usual recipe yields [...]
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies
It’s practically a law that Thanksgiving desserts involve pumpkin. I believe that they should also involve chocolate, and that the combination of pumpkin and chocolate isn’t given nearly enough respect. In my family, my grandma, aka Honey, cooks most of the Thanksgiving feast. Several of the ladies in my family provide desserts. I had planned [...]
