Cookies are a universal food and a treat everyone understands! Sugar cookies, molasses cookies, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip, cookies make a welcome snack or lunch box prize! Call them snickerdoodles, hermits or monster cookies, gingersnaps, lebkuchen, macaroons, spritz, or rum balls. Some cookies are even no bake! No matter what time of year, cookies mean love, can dry a tear or make a cup of coffee or a tall glass of cold milk an event.
Last week, I began a pursuit of peanut butter cookie perfection. Peanut butter cookies are Papa’s favorite. That was my inspiration. I need to remember everyone has their own idea about what makes a cookie perfect. But for me, it’s a cookie with thin, crisp edges and a chewy heart […]
Chocolate and peppermint are an unbeatable combination. The taste always says Christmas! I had some precious cooking-baking time with our granddaughter Baylie this week. She’s home from college. We made some fancy cookies. The recipes were from some of my favorite food bloggers and they turned out fantastic. Here’s the […]
This recipe for lemon bars made me think back to YEARS ago when our girls were in high school. I was a working mom and perpetually in a rush. I started baking what I called “idiot cookies.” (Credit to Peg Bracken’s snarky humor in her “I Hate to Cook” cookbook.) […]
We all LOVE the light, sweet and crispy, chewy goodness of old fashioned coconut macaroons
Now Aunt Martha didn’t have a food processor but her recipe for lemon bars is made with ingredients you probably have on hand today so you can whip up a panful in no time and you don’t even need to wash the food processor between steps!!
Back then I called them Idiot Cookies because they’re ridiculously simple to make. No mixer needed! This time, it was desperation that drove me to bake and fast.
These cookie dough bites are the perfect pick-me-up. They have the power to get you through an afternoon when you’ve totally run out of steam. Better yet, pair them with with your favorite hot beverage! Yes indeed, a moment of pure bliss!