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Candy Cane Cookie
My boys like to help make cookies, but they aren’t too keen on the decorating sugar cookies…which is perfectly fine with me, because I’m not too keen on the mess clean up after decorating sugar cookies. So instead of cookie cutting, frosting, sprinkling; we like to make candy cane sugar cookies. It still allows them to be involved, but it isn’t nearly as messy. Between you and me, I think they prefer the candy cane cookies because rolling out and shaping the dough is quite a bit like playing with playdoh. These cookies can easily be decorated as well with sprinkling of powdered sugar or addition of crushed candy canes…
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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
Any time peanut butter and chocolate are thrown together mouths become VERY happy, my mouth included. I grew up calling these cookies peanut butter blossom cookies. To which I never knew why, and whenever I chat with someone about these cookies their face forms a confused look and don’t know what I am talking about. Does anyone else called these peanut butter blossom cookies? While I make these cookies throughout the year, for some reason I grew up with them on the holiday baking lineup. Which is a tradition I have continued with my children. The basics of the peanut butter kiss cookies are peanut butter cookie batter and Hershey…
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Scottish Shortbread
My family usually celebrates our Norwegian heritage during the holidays through baking various goodies such as lefse (potato tortilla served with butter and sugar), krumkake (Norwegian version of a cannoli), and aebleskievers (pancake balls sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with jam). My husband’s heritage is rich in Scottish and Irish roots. So to honor and celebrate his ancestors, I like to make Scottish Shortbread. There are many recipes available for shortbread, but each recipe’s main ingredients are butter, sugar, and flour. Shortbread is a crisp cookie with a sweet buttery flavor. With this recipe, I like to add a little something special not normally found in shortbread recipes, maple…
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Reese’s Pieces PB Cookies
Peanut butter is easily in my top 5 favorite flavors, could even possibly make the top 3. Our family goes through a large jar of peanut butter in just a few weeks. Several weeks ago…during quarantine…my tribe and I decided we needed to acquire some Crumbl cookies, sit in lawn chairs (6ft apart), and catch up with life. At the time Crumbl had their giant Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies. One bite and I knew I would have to recreate the cookie so I could have the amazing yumminess all of the time. I make these as a giant batch and use an ice cream scoop to make sure the…
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Soft Molasses Cookies
Molasses cookies are more popular in my little family than chocolate chip cookies. While I do have a couple of kiddos who are chocolate lovers, molasses cookies are definitely loved by all. The spices and flavors bring me to a younger time and back into my mom’s kitchen. My kid brother insisted we call them Gopher Bottom Cookies instead because molasses has a swear word in it. Then my dad would tell a dad joke that went something like this… A family moles were out for a walk and they came upon a hole. One went in to check it out, then another, and another. The last mole came out…
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GG Gladys’ Molasses Cookies
I distinctly remember the cookie jar filled to the brim every time we’d visit Grandma’s home. She loved to bake, and was damn good at it…pies, cakes, jello salads…okay, jello doesn’t involve baking. Her molasses cookies are a definite favorite among her posterity. When my genius of a brother was about 5 years old, he became rather distraught and proclaimed we shouldn’t swear and that molasses was a swear word…mole-asses (my powers of deduction was definitely not nearly that advanced at age 5). So from then on, we were to call molasses cookies gopher bottom cookies…over 20 years later, Gopher Bottom Cookies is the proper name in our household. The…
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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
It’s national chocolate chip cookie day! Probably one of the best holidays ever; and I never miss an excuse to make and then consume mass quantities of cookies. I have to admit though, the chocolate chip cookie has been one that has eluded me. Just about every recipe I’ve tried has failed the taste test. In my book, a chocolate chip cookie should be chocolatey, chewy in the middle and crisp on the edges. So when Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction posted her chewy chocolate chunk cookie recipe today on Instagram, I had to give it a try. Sally has never let me down…she is a culinary genius and every…
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Sprinkle Pudding Cookies
Found this recipe on Pinterest the other day and just had to try it. I figured I like pudding and I like cookies, these must be amazing because they combined those two things. Guess what?! They are amazing! They’ve even been given Bean’s stamp of approval, which he doesn’t do very often with cookies. The original recipe called for vanilla pudding mix, I wanted to try making vanilla and chocolate. Both turned out perfect. ALSO…these cookies are dairy free and are gluten-free if you use gluten-free flour. If you want to try these cookies just head over to here.
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Best Snickerdoodle Cookies
Bean, very clearly states on the regular, that he absolutely hates cookies. I ask…what almost 10 years old, growing boy hates cookies???? So I have been on a mission to find a cookie he cannot deny. The Six Sisters Disneyland Copycat Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe has been the winner every time. It is hard to resist the sugar cookie goodness when it’s topped with cinnamon and sugar. Somehow this cookie recipe puts a smile on Bean’s face every single time I start up the mixer and begin to whip the butter and sugar into oblivion. These cookies are definitely a family favorite. The Six Sisters hit it out of the park again! …
