I finally did it! I outlined. I flooded. I dotted, swirled, and traced. A baby shower this weekend prompted sugar cookies with royal icing take #2; my 1st experience with the entire royal icing procedure. I’d used royal icing once before, but only in the stiff piping texture. While my cookies look decent, I had…
EZ Peasy Lemon Cookies
As a kid, my mom made these cookies quite frequently. I love how soft the centers are in comparison to the crispy crust. They’re just the right mix of sweet and tart, and wonderful to take to summer gatherings. Of all lemon cookies, these are in my top 2 recipes of all time. They just…
Great Grandma’s Soft Orange Cookies
My Great Grandma was a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen. The women in my family had the bar set high. It took plenty of patience and practice on my mother’s part to even come close to my father’s grandmother’s cooking. Soft orange cookies are one of Great-Grandma Berndt’s heirloom recipes. They’re so…
Orange Ginger Chippers
How many times have you gone to a family reunion where Auntie May pinched your cheeks and recollected upon days gone by? Well, in that spirit, I remember when chocolate chip cookies were just cookies; plain and simple hit-the-spot goodness when paired with a glass of milk. While I heart those puppies, I have a…
Inspiration this way came
This weekend Husband and I went to visit Grandparents who had just flown back from visiting Mother-in-Law, who sent me a cookbook. Woo-hoo! Now I officially have 2 “real” cookbooks in my possession. The other one is just an insert from a newspaper, but nonetheless an excellent resource. I had an order for alfajores this…
Shiny Happy Cookies
Today I made my first double chocolate cookies since the reign of this blog. As I’d suspected, the key to a full bodied chocolate flavor in a cookie is derived from melted chocolate in the batter. These cookies are chocolatey goodness with a crispy outside and a chewy center. They’d be perfect for midnight snacking…
On Sale Now
This past weekend Husband and I decided to do sample boxes of sweet treats to sell to local businesses. This took way more effort than I’d intended, especially considering that we even made the bakery boxes ourselves from posterboard (only because after exhausting a few box resources we found nothing suitable). Here’s a sample just…
Alfajores Recipe with Home-Dried Coconut
On the weekends I decide what to bake for the upcoming week. Knowing I had alfajores on the menu, I decided to save $ and see what I could do to turn an ordinary coconut into flake coconut. Sounds a little Cinderella-ish, don’t you think? It just made since because coconuts are so prevalent here,…
Chocolate Crinkles, the next dimension
Since it’s Monday, that means I’m baking up some goodies to send to work with Husband tomorrow. Today’s main item is Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, but I’ve taken some liberties with them. Still not an über chocolaty cookie, it’s still pretty tasty. I’m convinced that the only way to get the decadent, rich, chocolate king of…
