6 posts categorized "Cookie"

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies: March 31, 2011
Categories: Cookie, Dessert, Season: Anytime, Snack
Laced in with the sadness of the past year have been surprising moments of joy. We have gathered with others who also loved our dear ones and in those gatherings there has been much celebration, gratitude, and laughter. Misery loves...

Molasses Cookies: January 26, 2011
Categories: Cookie, Dessert, Season: Anytime, Snack, Teacher Gift
Much gratitude for all of your kind words in response to my last post. There are such good reminders in those comments about how important it is to be honest with our children and about how resilient those little ones...

Mexican Chocolate Tea Cakes: December 8, 2010
Categories: Chocolate, Cookie, Season: Anytime, Teacher Gift
Mexican tea cakes -- sometimes known as Russian tea cakes -- are among my favorite cookies. Loaded with pecans and filled with light powdered sugar, they are a bite of delight. Really, there's not much that could be done to...

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies: February 24, 2010
Categories: Cookie, Dessert, Season: Anytime, Snack
Do you remember that old jingle, "Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't"? I never understood that ad; I always feel like a nut. By that, I mean, of course, that I always feel like eating nuts. If...

Stained Glass Cookies: December 14, 2009
Categories: Cookie, Party Food, Season: Winter, Teacher Gift
If I were ever to create a book of family traditions (hmmm. . . there's an idea!), it would definitely include this recipe. We all have our favorites, but this one has universal appeal in our house. I'm sure that...

Brown Sugar Cookies: October 29, 2009
Categories: Cookie, Dessert, Out of the Mouths of Babes, Season: Anytime, Snack
Olivia got into her head that she wanted to make brown sugar cookies. Doesn't that sound delicious? I think she got the idea from a book, Easy Desserts, that my mother gave her a few years ago. She loves looking...