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Day 9: Cherry Meringue Cookies Cherr y Meringu cookies are sweet little bites that are light and airy. They will literally melt in your mouth! These look fancy but are really simple to make and they bake quickly too! You can use any flavor jello. I usually do one batch green and one red. Store […]
Day 7: Coffee Shortbread Cookies Why dip your cookies in coffee when you can just have a coffee cookie? It’s a time saver, lol. These are made using a cookie press but you can also add an extra cup of flour and refrigerate for a few hours. Then roll, cut, and bake as directed […]
Pumpkin Dreams I am not a big fruit person. I prefer vegetable any day. With that being said, pumpkin is my favorite “fruit”. Pumpkin Dreams are my second favorite cookie. They have a great pumpkin flavor and are light and fluffy. There are vanilla chips (formally called white chocolate) that make these just dreamy! […]
Brownie Crackles Cookies Extra chocolately brownies made into a cookie! There are mini chocolate chips that melt into the batter as they cook. It keeps them moist and gooey! WARNING they are so good and bite sized that you could eat a dozen and not realize it! I have always liked brownies and I really […]
Dark Chocolate with Peanut Butter Chips Cookies Chocolate and peanut butter are almost as popular as peanut butter and jelly. This is Tarrena’s favorite cookie. I have been chasing her out of the kitchen all morning long. You can make this with regular cocoa powder but we really enjoy them made with the dark chocolate […]
Orange Chocolate Chunk Cookies Orange and chocolate combine forces! These are a new addition to my Christmas baking this year. I had to chase my son out of them about a dozen times. He just wouldn’t stay out. He normally isn’t a big fan of orange and chocolate but these he couldn’t stay out of. […]
Matcha Green Tea Crinkle Cookies Don’t let the green tea fool you into thinking these are gross! They are sooo yummy, my kids and the extra’s we have around gobbled them up quicker than I could cook them. Green tea is very mild. Actually I couldn’t even taste it. The benefit of adding it though […]
Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients: 2 sticks of butter ¾ cup sugar ¾ cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 2 ½ cups flour 2/3 cup dark cocoa powder 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 1 bag of semisweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 375. Mix together the butter and both sugars. […]
Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies These cookies my sister and I came up with over the phone. She helped me decide all the ingredients. I wanted some ideas for making up cookies. She wanted pistachios in them. I suggested cherries or cranberries with it and she said cranberry. Next came deciding the dough, I thought a […]
Throwback Thursday Great, Great, Great Aunt Amy’s Peanut Butter Cookies It’s Throwback Thursday again!!!! I am having a good time writing these recipes. My Great Great Great Aunt Amy (we just called her aunt Amy) was a very important part of my life. First of all I get my name from her and I […]
