Cookies

I try not to be an emotional eater, but y’all  sometimes you just need a freaking cookie! This was me last week after discovering my water heater had sprung a leak in the storage area of my basement leaving an inch of water and all our boxes in storage wet and gross. I sorted through and threw out a dumpster’s worth of ruined stuff. Days like these, it’s okay to scream things like I just need a freaking cookie…and a…

It’s hard to believe that 4 ingredients and around 20 minutes will yield these soft, melt in your mouth, buttery lemon crinkle cookies. Lemon crinkle cookies are the sunny sister to the Mint Middle Fudge Crinkles  I posted a few weeks ago.  Bright lemony flavor shines in these soft and chewy cookies. Cheerful yellow cookie peeks out of the powdered sugar covered cracks along the outside, giving these cookies their characteristic crinkle appearance.  These cookies make a great cake mix…

Mint middle fudge crinkles are soft and fudgy chocolate cookies that have a cool and creamy chocolate mint center. It’s cookie and candy together in a wonderfully easy to make cookie. It’s the bus, busiest time of the year! There’ll be much schedule shifting and last minute gifting, but be of good cheer! I’ve been so busy that it’s been a little hard for me to get into the holiday mood. Last night, my youngest son took it upon himself…

Totally decadent, over the top, loaded peanut butter rice crispy treats. Chewy peanut butter rice crispy treats are layered with peanut butter cup filling, then topped with melted chocolate and m and m’s. These no bake beauties aren’t for the faint of heart, but are a must make for any peanut butter lover.  I noticed this week that I was becoming pretty predictable with my summer AHB recipes. A little fruit, a simple pastry or cake batter, a tasty glaze…

Cherries, blueberries, cranberries, and chocolate chips make these over the top oatmeal cookies a fruity, chewy,  sweet, and wonderful treat. Does it make me a horrible parent if I tell the entire internet my kids have been driving me nuts lately? Because they have. I say this as my youngest son stands right next to me with a butter knife, trying to break his tablet out of the protective case I put on it. It’s not a great plan and…

Light and flaky pastry rounds with juicy pineapple filling, topped with maraschino cherries, pecans, and powdered sugar glaze. These pretty pineapple cookies will make you feel like a top pastry chef.  Do you watch any reality tv shows? I watch a few food competition shows, but that’s about it. Well this past weekend at Go Blog Social KC I had the opportunity to meet a reality tv star. Kind of exciting, right? One of the speakers at the conference was…

Smooth and rich dark chocolate encases a delicately flavored orange shortbread. Simple flavors and traditional technique are what make these dipped shortbread cookies shine. Not overly sweet, but completely indulgent all the same, these cookies taste much like those candy chocolate oranges you can find this time of year. Though I do love those treats, these cookies were inspired from a different kind of Christmas orange. I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandmother growing up. My parents…

Granola cookies take all the great benefits of granola and put them into a package that is hard for anyone, big or little, to resist. Who can say no to freshly baked cookies? These healthy granola cookies are sweet, chewy, and wholesome cookies full of oats, fruit, and nuts. A healthier take on one of our family favorites, the classic oatmeal raisin cookie, they share the great similarities, but ditch the high fat and sugar content.

Blah, blah, blah, my house is still torn up. Construction, that tired old and true and very messy and redonkulously expensive story. I never in a million years thought that it would be this hard to blog about food and live through remodeling the house.  They dug holes in our basement floor to redo plumbing this week. Let me tell you, it’s disconcerting to be able to see the earth through a hole in your basement floor. Almost as disconcerting as…

So you might have noticed that last Friday I didn’t get my post up. It was because I went on an impromptu trip to the Nile. That’s a lie. It’s because I went on an impromptu trip to denial. I feel like there are a lot of women who are like super awesome women, who don’t need much sleep, and are organized, and not late, and just in general can-doer, get-stuff-doners . I don’t think I fall into that category…