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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, today’s recipe is Dream Bars – bar cookies traditionally made with a shortbread crust and a topping of brown sugar, coconut, eggs and nuts. This version is a bit different. It lacks coconut and has a filling made with cream cheese and lemon. The end result is a [...]
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This recipe was included in a Redbook Magazine interview with Giada De Laurentis. When I first saw it, I wanted to run to the kitchen and try it out, but I was on an airplane so that wasn’t possible. Now I’m home in my messy house with loads of laundry and a batch of these [...]
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I pulled this recipe out of my “Top Cookies” file, which has become completely disorganized and not to be trusted because all the cookies filed there aren’t really “Top”. But these sounded good and since I needed to use up the rest of a big can of roasted, salted macadamias from Costco, I made a batch this morning. [...]
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A child with many names is a child loved many times. I don’t know where I read this quote originally, but it stuck in my head because my daughter has so many nicknames. I thought of it again this morning as I made these Mexican Wedding cakes, aka Snowballs, aka Kourambiedes, aka Russian Tea Cakes. [...]
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I couldn’t settle on a recipe this morning and almost gave up…. …until I found my King Arthur Whole Grain Baking Book. I’d put it away months ago and had forgotten about the many things I’d bookmarked and planned on trying. One in particular, was Salted Cashew-Crunch Cookies. I had exactly 8 ounces of salted [...]
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Here’s the second recipe for today. I’m not on a crazy cookie baking binge, I just need more dough for the school function tomorrow. The rest of the cookies will be baked in the morning, but I did have to make a few test cookies and thanks to the combination of cashews and coconut, these [...]
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Today I made a hazelnut cake, and I will talk about it once it’s been cut. For now, here are the hazelnut cookies I baked while the cake was cooling. I’d skinned all those hazelnuts, so why not? This recipe is from the Oregon Hazelnut Growers and can be found here. For convenience, I have [...]
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Today’s recipe was adapted from a 5 star prize winner on the Better Homes and Gardens recipe site “Better Recipes”. I included the link to the recipe, but I also typed it below the way I made it. I re-ordered the ingredients because I like mixing dry ingredients first. I also used unsalted butter and [...]
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