How To Freeze Sugar Cookies

How To Freeze Sugar Cookies

Did you know you can freeze sugar cookies at any stage? You can freeze the dough, the cut out cookies, the baked and decorated cookies! Ah, the holiday season. So much fun. So much work. Let’s take a little bit of stress out of this holiday season and discuss how to freeze your sugar cookies. By freezing your sugar cookies … Read More

Brownie Bites with Peanut Butter Mousse

brownie bites with peanut butter mousse

Chocolaty brownie bites with light and fluffy peanut butter mousse filling are the perfect antidote to your peanut butter chocolate craving. I have a deep love of peanut butter pie. I find it to be creamy, peanut buttery perfection. The trouble with peanut butter pie-it’s not super portable. I was looking for a dessert that had all the good parts … Read More

Easy Rolled Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookie dough rolled out with hearts cut out

Easy rolled sugar cookies that don’t puff or spread and tips to have a fun cookie decorating party with kids (or adults). Everybody needs an easy, sugar cookie recipe that works every time. This one is mine and it hasn’t failed me yet. I was a painfully shy kid. So shy, in fact, my kindergarten teacher assigned my mom to … Read More

Soft Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Stacks of soft sour cream sugar cookies on a cooling rack with a white background

Soft Lofthouse style sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect cut out cookie recipe. Slather these cookies with cream cheese frosting and add sprinkles for the perfect sugar cookie! So…I’m not usually about fussy.  I’m a jeans and tee shirt girl.  I drink instant coffee.  I’ve carried the same purse for the last two years.  But sometimes a little bit … Read More

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

Chocolate chip cookies, I know, a little cliche.  But if you can make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, you can pretty much make any cookie you like.   If you can make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, you have a homemade food gift in a matter of 60 minutes.  If you can make a batch of chocolate chip … Read More

Green Tea and White Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Enjoy these rich shortbread cookies infused with matcha powder and studded with creamy white chocolate with a nice strong cup of coffee for the perfect afternoon pick me up! It’s January, which around these parts, means that it is so cold that to walk to the store you need long underwear, boots, coat, mittens, and a scarf long enough to … Read More

Kongo Bars

Kongo-Bars

Kongo Bars are thick, chewy chocolate chip cookies in bar form. These cookies require 1 bowl, 1 pan, and a half hour of your time. Perfect easy dessert for a crowd! I think technically these might be considered blondies. I read somewhere that Kongo bars contained coconut. But, my family always called them Kong bars so I will carry on … Read More

Peanut Butter Pizza

Peanut butter pizza

Homemade peanut butter cookie made on a pizza pan topped with milk chocolate chips. Perfect treat for chocolate peanut butter lovers! I don’t know when my family first started making peanut butter pizza.  This dish became my signature dessert when I was in grade school.  I would take it to every family gathering and it would always be demolished.  It … Read More

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

peanut butter sandwich cookies

Sweet, creamy peanut butter buttercream sandwiched between two classic peanut butter cookies for a decadent peanut butter sandwich cookie, perfect with a glass of milk. How do you make a soft, chewy peanut butter cookie even better?  Slather some peanut butter buttercream in the middle.  Heaven. Every time I bring sandwich cookies to a party, they are immediately devoured.  Something … Read More

Valentine Brownie Treat

I was looking for a fun and easy Valentine’s sweet to take to project night last Wednesday and I stumbled upon I Am Baker’s alternate ego I Am Mommy.  Her post had a cute idea for Valentine’s Day treats to make with your kids.  The brownie hearts with strawberries were just the thing I was looking for.  I made it … Read More