Chocolate Cherry Sugar Cookies

sugar cookies

These are not your momma's sugar cookies. Chocolate cookies with small inlaid cherry cookie hearts are so cute, and perfect Valentine cookies...

Pecan Sandies

nut cookies

Pecan Sandies are a favorite childhood memory. We used to eat these fun nut cookies at my grandparents house, but these days I make them from scratch...

Cherry Cookies with Vanilla Frosting Dip

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These pink cookies are so fun to dip in vanilla frosting. The cookies get their pink color from maraschino cherries, and the frosting is made a little thin, to be the perfect consistency for dipping...

Gingerbread

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A few things have changed since I made this recipe last year. Hope your year has seen some wonderful, amazing changes, too...

Almond Shortbread Cookies

But you know what makes me completely happy and relaxed when I'm homicidal not happy? The smell of almond extract. It's quite literally the most amazing smell ever. I mean, you can talk about your fresh cut grass, or pine forest, or ocean breeze, ..

Pumpkin Swirl Sugar Cookies

pumpkin recipe

This pumpkin cookie recipe includes chocolate chips and marshmallows. It's my favorite seasonal pumpkin recipe!..

Cinnamon Palmiers (Elephant Ears)

I’m a self-admitted self-help junkie.  I can barely stand to read fiction at all.  Even the tv shows I watch are all about making life better, improving your business, or solving puzzles. It’s a disease, but I love it. The Animal Planet..

Red Velvet Sugar Cookies

A recipe for a soft, rolled red velvet sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting. Source: I am Baker, who is obviously much more talented with a piping bag than I am. Yield: this recipe is huge.  I ended up with around 5 dozen big 3″ cookies. I ..

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

A recipe for a dark chocolate rolled sugar cookie embellished with royal icing. Source:  Annie’s Eats, whose cookies are way cuter than mine. Yield:  Varies according to cookie cutter size, but I ended up with around 2-3 dozen. I’ve bee..

Gingerbread Men

A classic crispy gingerbread cookie with royal icing. Source: Martha Stewart, the Queen of the classics. Yield: 2-3 dozen Is there anything more Christmasey than Gingerbread men?  I think not.  My daughter, who is 10, is at an age where she is very..