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Last weekend Fuzz and her friends asked if they could bake cookies. It’s usually the other way around, and since I was so glad they initiated the baking session I said yes even though I’d just finished cleaning the kitchen.
Plus, I now had an excuse to make (and people to eat) the Perfect Sugar Cookies from Fine Cooking Magaz
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A few weeks ago I put together a list of recipes that people say remind them of Lofthouse Cookies. I tried a cakey sour cream clone recipe from Recipe Goldmine, a recipe from a scrapbooker’s forum that was supposed to be the original, and I tried some recipes here and there for cookies with names [...]
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Okay, so I’m still a little obsessed with Lofthouse cookies. I’ll be over it in the next few days, but for now here’s a list of recipes I’ve tried plus a few that I haven’t. If you’ve got another Lofthouse clone, feel free to post it in the comment section and I’ll move it up [...]
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It had been a while since I’d eaten a Lofthouse cookie, but they came up in conversation so I picked up a box to refresh my memory. Given the rave reviews, I was excited about re-trying them since I’d completely forgotten how they tasted. I chose the ones with blue frosting and Fuzz approved. One [...]
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This afternoon Todd and I drove back to the hill country and picked Fuzz up from Girl Scout camp. It was pouring rain. The campers were huddled under a porch while the soaking wet counselors very efficiently checked IDs and loaded each girl and her luggage into a car. On the ride home Fuzz told [...]
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Fuzz and I were in the mood for sugar cookies this morning, and since we had some sour cream to use up we decided to try a recipe from the Tate’s Bake Shop Cookbook. Of course we made a few changes along the way – we used unsalted butter, adjusted the amount of salt, and [...]
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A friend sent me this recipe in the mail. She got it from a friend who mailed it to her along with this note. What’s not to love about a review like that? I had to bake them, so I picked up some instant vanilla pudding mix and made a batch this morning. Todd said “They’re [...]
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Last year a friend asked if I’d auction off a kind of “Cookie of the Month” service for our school’s silent auction. The highest bidder would get freshly made cookies dropped off at their house once a month. I was worried Todd would end up having to bid on me, but someone beat him to [...]
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