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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
