Anna | November 30, 2007
A few months ago, I found a really swell cookie recipe that seemed perfect for the holidays. As usual, I forgot about it.
Yesterday’s mention of pistachios must have jogged my memory, so I went back to the recipe today. It’s called White Chocolate Peppermint Pistachio Bars and it was submitted to Better Recipes by Roxanne [...]
Anna | November 29, 2007
After all my raving about how great the Wellesley cookies were, I noticed a typo in the amount of sugar. I listed “1/2 cup brown sugar” but the correct amount is “1 cup brown sugar”. I realized this after Chelsea complained hers were a bit salty. The missing 1/2 cup of sugar gave the cookies [...]
Anna | November 29, 2007
I’m trapped at home without a car, so here’s another cookie for you. This is an old Southern recipe. Unlike some ribbon cookie recipes, these spread a little. Their texture is more sugar cookie-ish than shortbread-ish. I made these with ingredients I had around the house…..like the cherries leftover from the sundae cookies.
Ribbon Cookies
1 cup [...]
Anna | November 29, 2007
This morning’s cookies were derived from a recipe in the book Great Cookies — Secrets to Sensational Sweets , by Carol Walters.
Freya made a few changes and put the recipe on her blog, Writing at The Kitchen Table.
Mindy took the recipe from Freya’s blog and made her own changes.
I took the recipe from Mindy and guess what. [...]
Anna | November 28, 2007
It’s been quite busy today, and if I told you all that happened, you wouldn’t believe me.
Okay, just kidding. But didn’t that sound mysterious and exciting….as if there were more to my day then the usual housewife stuff?
But Wednesday is actually my super busy housewife stuff day so this recipe is getting posted a bit [...]