This is a Betty Crocker recipe. I didn’t have enough red food coloring so they didn’t come out very red. I also made homemade cream cheese frosting rather than use the canned kind. They are very tasty! 1 (1 pound, 1.5 oz) pouch Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 cup butter, … Continue reading
I had a bag of Christmas M & M’s and wanted to make cookies so I googled “M & M cookie recipe” and found this one on http://www.squidoo.com which was titled “The Best Ever M & M Cookie Recipe”. These are going in a care package for my friend Lacee who is on a mission … Continue reading
I love December! It’s Christmas time and I get to bake all month long if I feel like it, and I feel like it! (So get ready for lots of baking posts!) Woo Hoo! These are so easy and so fast to make. The center is a peppermint patty so they go together so quickly. … Continue reading
It is cold and wet and wintery here so perfect day for cookies and pajamas! These are from “The Cookie Bible”. 1 2/3 cups flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, softened 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 … Continue reading
This recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s brand new cookbook, “101 Gourmet Cookies for Everyone”, which I just ordered from Amazon. And when she says for everyone, she means for everyone; there are recipes for dieters, gluten free-ers and even vegans. Zach was late to work and if you’re late, you have to bring doughnuts but … Continue reading
If you like shortbread, you’ll like these cookies. This must be the first time I’ve made shortbread for my family because they weren’t too crazy about these cookies. I think they bit into the cookies expecting regular cookie texture and instead got shortbread which threw them off. The cookies have a good flavor with a shortbread texture … Continue reading
Zach is going on a road trip and needs sustenance! And by sustenance I of course mean cookies! These are flourless cookies for anyone looking for a recipe that falls within that category. This is another recipe that I’ve had for awhile and so can’t remember where it came from. 1 cup sugar 1 cup … Continue reading
Is there anything better than a chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven? I think not. Here is one of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes from Nestle. I went for a lot of years refusing to bake cookies because they never came out the way I wanted them to, light and fluffy and … Continue reading
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