Two new gingerbread cookies – a smaller hugging gingerbread man, only 3 inches tall, and a gingerbread cookie cutter turned upside down to look like a reindeer. Use your favorite gingerbread cookie dough (or see below) make your royal icing to decorate and use m&m’s for the nose, candy eyes and sugar candies such as … Continue reading
Pizzelles are traditional Italian waffle cookies and often served during Christmas and Easter. They can be hard and crisp or soft and chewy depending on the ingredients. It is also common for two pizzelles to be sandwiched with cannoli cream or other spreads. They are easy to mold into various shapes while they are still … Continue reading
Since Halloween is just a week away I thought I would post these “cute pumpkins” now just in case any of you would like to make them. They can be a little time consuming but so worth it. You know – chocolate and Oreos – you can’t get much better than that! They really get … Continue reading
Cinco de Mayo is a few days away and a decision on a dessert to serve needed to be made. I originally thought of a flan, then maybe some kind of a churro dessert. I then considered traditional Mexican cookies such as wedding or polvorones. I finally settled on these flavorful cookies full of 2 … Continue reading
Happy Easter! What better way to celebrate than to make a batch of these cute hugging Easter bunny cookies. These rabbit cookies can hug M&M peanuts – my favorite (Easter colors), raw natural whole almonds (Jordan almonds would be good too), sugar-free mini jelly beans and carrot sugar decorations – cutest. You could also use … Continue reading
Are you ready for some football – maybe all the great commercials at least! Superbowl is not too far off; February 4th, and I wanted to share this new mini mold with you. Back in 2012 I posted the larger version of these tasty cookies. Then spinningleaf.com came out with this new “mini” version. … Continue reading
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! One last seasonal recipe for my blog and yes it is gingerbread but chocolate flavored. I have wanted to try a chocolate gingerbread cookie for some time and just recently decided to give it a go. Ree Drummond was a judge on one of the Food Channel shows “Christmas Cookie Challenge” awhile ago … Continue reading
I just received this cute Christmas Gingerbread Men mold (along with the tree and poinsettia) in time to make some for the holidays. Two day priority mail took 9 days – such is the post office this time of year! I have quite a collection of mini and regular sized molds that I have posted … Continue reading
This is my 1,000 post in six years – that’s right – 1,000 ! Since it is the holiday season I decided a new cookie would be a great way to remember this special occasion. Something different from my gingerbread men, spritz cookies (there are 7 versions) or Mom’s sugar cookies that appear on my … Continue reading
This is the best chocolate chip cookie you will ever have the pleasure of eating, if you have some patience. Why? Because you need to brown the butter and make the dough the day before and refrigerate it. This allows the dough to fully hydrate and prevents the cookies from spreading too much. I have … Continue reading