TipWhy Do We Celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25? There are several reasons Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25. The date is nine months after March 25, a day recognized by Christians as Annunciation. It was the day Mary was told she would was having a baby. The nine months that follow are an approximation of…
Ingredients:24 x shortbread cookies – I used Walker1/2 cup Nutella2 x bananas, sliced1/4 cup chopped almondsInstructions:With your non-dominant hand, hold up your first three fingers. Slightly cup your hand and gently grasp a shortbread cookie by its edge. Position your hand so that your thumb is closest to your body, let’s call this 6-o’clock position.Get…
Ingredients Cookies: 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature ¾ cup sugar ⅛ teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2½ cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Rolling Mix: ½ teaspoon black peppercorns Pinch sea salt ½ cup sugar ¾ teaspoon all-purpose flour Directions 1. Make the dough: In…
Sometimes, a seed of inspiration takes years to grow into a final recipe. Other times, the stars align and that initial spark coincides with a tour of a local cookie factory, and the result is truly incredible. There’s really no gray area when it comes to the ubiquitous cookies-n-cream, it’s always been purely black and…
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Cut the butter into 1/2-inch cubes and place into the bowl of an electric mixer. Add the brown sugar and white sugar and cream using the paddle attachment just until smooth, about 2 minutes. You do not want to create a lot of air. Turn the mixer to…
Our friend Florine Luhr shared this special Molasses Cookies recipe, which has been in her family for close to 100 years! Ingredients 3/4 cup butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar, plus additional sugar for rolling cookies 1 egg 1/4 cup molasses 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon ground…
Popcorn coated in creamy white chocolate and crumbled oreo cookies!Ingredients:1/4 cup popcorn kernels or 1 bag popcorn, popped12 oreo cookies, coarsely crushed6 ounces white chocolate, meltedInstructions:Mix the popcorn, crumbled cookies and melted chocolate until well combined, spread the mixture out on a baking sheet and let sit until the chocolate has set. (Tip: Chill in…
1. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle, beat butter, 1 cup confectioner’s sugar, and granulated sugar at medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add vanilla extract, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt and beat until well combined.
Ingredients:1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour3/4 cup cocoa powder1/2 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened1 cup sugar1 large egg1/2 cup milk1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract12 large marshmallows, cut in half horizontallyChocolate frosting for surprise cookiesInstructions:1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda,…
Ingredients:8 homemade or store bought cookies4 tablespoons chocolate-hazelnut spreadInstructions:Top half of the cookies with chocolate-hazelnut spread. Top with a second cookie to make a sandwich.
A great chocolate and orange cookie recipe for Halloween, which can be easily adapted to suit any occassion.Ingredients:115 g Brown SugarOrange icingZest of 1 Orange225 g Self Raising Flour8 Dark chocolate chunksFor the decoration1 Heaped tbsp of icing sugar2 ½ tbsp Cocoa Powder10 Chunks of Dark ChocolateFor the cookiesJuice of ½ an orange (squeeze through…
Ingredients:18 cookies1 cup peanut butter (see note)3/4 cup natural cane sugar1/4 cup brown sugar1 egg1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon vanillasugar
Ingredients:1 cup (115 g) pecan pieces (or another nut of your choice)1 cup (225 g or 2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature3/4 cup (85 g) powdered sugar, sifted2 teaspoons vanilla extract2 cups (280 g) all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon kosher salt1 1/4 cup (145 g) powdered sugar, to coat the cookiesInstructions:Toast the nuts on the stovetop:…
Ingredients:7 ounces best-quality semisweet chocolate1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour (i took the extra tbsp out)1/4 teaspoons ground ginger1 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/4 teaspoon ground cloves1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg1 tablespoon cocoa powder (i added a total of 3 tbsp of unsweetened dutch chocolate)8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger (did not…
Ingredients:1 11-oz. bag semisweet chocolate chips2 tablespoons unsalted butter16 fortune cookies
Ingredients:1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies1 ½ cup white vanilla baking chips or semisweet chocolate chips8 round hard peppermint candies, crushed (1/4 cup)
Adapted from Ready for Dessert by David Lebovitz. For a cherry version, we posted another adaptation previously here. We will often freeze the chocolate dough balls after they’ve been coated with the regular sugar, and when ready to use, thaw for about 30 minutes, coat in confectioners sugar and bake. The dough can be refrigerated…
Last week, I was making my weekly ice cream deliveries to the vendors at my local market, which was especially necessary since my freezer was super jam-packed and begging for relief. (Which you may have seen when I inadvertently bared-all in my kitchen slide show.) When I stopped by to drop off a pint to…
It’s like a magic trick to pull a can of lemonade out of the freezer and say to the kids, “Do you think we can make this lemonade into cookies?” If you want to make the cookie dough ahead of time, it can be refrigerated for several days if you seal it in two layers…
Wow, these were some good cookies. I made them to celebrate my friend Sarah’s 10,000th day. The fact that I almost made them again less than a week later is proof that you need to try them. There are very few recipes that I repeat—why bother when there is so much left to try? This…
“Cookies deserve at least the same courtesy given to stale bread.” [Original artwork and photographs: Jessie Oleson] Christmas is over and we’ve entered a bleak time of year full of gifts being returned, dried-out Christmas trees at the curb, and the saddest story of all, the Christmas cookies gone stale. But because I believe that…
We did this exactly as the recipe describes and we also got what looks like grey asphalt. I might try it again with maybe 1/4 as many crushed cookies and stir them in once the chocolate is melted and spread in the pan, perhaps that would look remotely like the nice white “bark” in the…
Now, these aren’t perfect macarons. They needed to be folded a little bit more, because they are sitting too high, they need smoother tops. But they are still great.Ingredients:2 egg whites from large eggs, at room temperature½ c almond flour1 c powdered sugar5 tbs granulated sugar2 crushed chocolate sandwich cookies1 pouch oreo cookies n cream…
Read More + Read Less – Advertisement – Continue Reading Below 3/4 c. dark brown sugar 1/4 c. molasses 1 tbsp. pumpkin pie spice Preheat oven at 350 F. Start with the Basic Sugar Cookies recipe. Omit granulated sugar and substitute dark brown sugar and molasses. Omit vanilla extract. Add pumpkin pie spice to flour.…