How to Bake Gingerbread Cookies: Gingerbread Day
National Gingerbread Day is November 21st, and the most amazing aroma should be coming out of your kitchen with this Gingerbread Cookie recipe! The smell of gingerbread is so enticing, you can hardly wait to devour it, and what smells more like Christmas baking? Gingerbread Tips & Info: Gingerbread dough can get a little heavy & dense if too much flour is incorporated into the dough. So, only add as much flour as absolutely...
Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe: Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day is a true celebration of flavors! The combination of bittersweet chocolate & almonds is quite wonderful, even though each of them are delicious by themselves. I’m giving you a recipe for Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies. How to Bake Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies: With their crescents dipped in chocolate, these almond cookies are a delight, especially around...
How to Bake Ingrid’s Peanut Butter Cookies: National Cookie Month
National Cookie Month is here, and cookies certainly are a national treat & a favorite after-school snack – but Ingrid’s Peanut Butter Cookies are on another level! Cookies always give yo that little kick of sugar you desire. Some cookies call for shortening, which tends to give a softer texture, and more spread of the dough on the cookie sheet. I will often use half butter & half shortening to get the best of both...
National Homemade Cookies Day: A Spicy Cookie Recipe + Video
Ahhh…the smell of freshly baked cookies in the house. That’s what National Homemade Cookies Day is all about. The scent of sugar and vanilla and golden goodness just warms your senses and brings you back to your mom baking some tasty treats for you. I remember coming home from school on a day when my mother baked. That was heaven. I still reminisce about them. It’s like all the feelings and senses come back but for a...
How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies
My sister, Rose, was a phenomenal home chef and baker. Among her many signature dishes, as well as experimental things she created, everything I ever had of hers tasted fabulous, was appealing to the eye, and there was never enough! I was perusing through some of my recipes I have saved, and came across this one of hers that is such a winner, and that I hadn’t baked in a long while. So, here is a superb recipe for pecan...
National Pecan Cookie Day: Recipe of Nostalgia
Are you “nuts about baking” cookies, cakes and breads? Good news, we’re celebrating National Pecan Cookie Day! I love baking, and especially with nuts… Ah, yes…Pecans, like most nuts, are high in fats and protein. Their oils carry nutrients & flavor, and that’s why they are so very delicious. Sometimes recipes indicated that nuts are optional, meaning that the recipe will be okay if you...
How to Bake Chili Cinnamon CheeCha Drop Cookies + Video
Happy Cinco de Mayo, firstly! You have found the BEST Cinco de Mayo recipe out there this year, hands down… These are probably my favorite cookies ever. They give you a spicy cinnamon flavor that rivals the best hot cinnamon hearts with the crunch of a cookie. They are easy to make, have exciting ingredients in them, they are ridiculously tasty, they are a great conversation piece, and are a killer midnight snack to boot. You...
How to Bake Apricot Sesame Breadcrumb Cookies
Last night, my sweet tooth got the better of me, and I had a few moments to spare… …so I wanted something that was a bit sweet, maybe warm and really delicious, maybe reminiscent of being a tiny bit healthy too would be good, to alleviate the guilt! LOL So, I thought I would make some breadcrumb cookies after looking through my ingredients and what I had in the pantry. I dreamed up a bit of an Asian inspired flavor, as I...
How to Bake Breadcrumb Chocolate Chip Cookies
As I was searching my brain for something to make for a sweet treat tonight, I thought of making some cookies. Oatmeal raisin crossed my mind, as did chocolate chip cookies, maybe with a bit of oatmeal in them even. However, then a grand idea hit me for a really interesting and unique option for cookies that I’ve never heard of myself, nor tried making before… I have a lot of different flavored bread crumbs in my pantry...
How to Bake Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies
What do Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies mean to me? The perfect peanut butter cookie is chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outer edges and perfect when warm with a glass of milk. If this is your idea of delicious, then this is the peanut butter cookie recipe for you! It was our late-night pb snack last night… Type: Cookie Recipe Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time: 10 minutes Yield: 2 dozen Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter –...
How to Store Meatballs or Cookie Dough
Ever wonder how to store meatballs? How to store cookie dough? When you go to all the trouble to make something very delicious and spend good time preparing it, it’s a great idea to make more than you will use… …The excess is great to store away in the freezer to use at a later date and save you time and energy. This week in particular, I happened to make meatballs for my Meatball Soup, and cookie dough for Chewy...
Win an Ultimate Hershey’s Kisses Cookie Exchange Party
Get ready for the Holiday COOKIExchange from Hershey’s Kisses… In fact, be sure to enter to win an ultimate hosting party for a Hershey’s Kisses Cookie Exchange for you, your family and friends. Hershey’s Kisses is choosing 1,000 people to host one of these ultimate Cookie Exchange Parties. You’ll get free Hershey’s kisses, coupons for other products, a Hershey’s Kisses cookie jar and...
It’s So Hot, You Could Bake Cookies in Your Car?
I know you’ve all heard people say, “You could fry an egg on the sidewalk, it’s so hot!” Why not try baking cookies on your dashboard? That’s just what a lady did in New Hampshire on one of these hot, balmy, summer days. She has figured out that with a temperature outside of 95 degrees, that the internal temperature of her car gets up to 200 degrees. Wow…that’s hot! Not only that, it will bake...
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