The Daily Cookie, 365 Tempting Treats for the Sweetest Year of Your Life, is now available! If you love baking or are looking for a great gift book, you can buy it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, or at your favorite book store. I hope you enjoy The Daily Cookie. Thanks for your support.
I’m driving across town this morning to sign some important documents. I have a bit of highway driving phobia and am very nervous. I’m never sure I’ll make it home, so if you don’t hear from me, it was nice knowing you! Keep on baking….or in this case, assembling. Here’s a quick and easy recipe you can put [...]
{ 17 comments }
Austin Girl Scout Cookie sales began today and to kick it off, I decided to post a recipe for a pie using Thin Mints. You’ll probably want to eat your first few cookies straight up, but trust me — after you’ve bought ten boxes, alternatives are good. This pie is based on Kraft’s Triple Layer [...]
{ 12 comments }
I collect recipes. Some are typical, others are crazy, and there are some that I hold on to because they were given to me by my grandmother or mother who were so inspired by the recipe they clipped it or asked for it. Hershey Bar Pie is one of those recipes. My mother tasted Hershey [...]
{ 12 comments }
I was out most of the day, but returned home this evening to find a few emails reminding me that it was National Pie Day — a holiday that could not go unobserved, hence this pie. The recipe, which is said to be that of a popular restaurant called “Z-Tejas”, is called Ancho Chile Fudge [...]
{ 5 comments }
I made up this recipe last year when I was on a Bailey’s kick. Wait a minute. I’m always on a Bailey’s kick. This is an easy, Jell-O pudding based pie and it’s really good.
{ 16 comments }
I love recipes that involve magic. Take for example, Impossible Pie. You dump the batter into a pie dish, bake it, then pull it out of the oven to find that it has miraculously separated into a crust with filling. There are variations – cheeseburger impossible pie, taco impossible pie, chicken enchilada impossible pie….the list [...]
{ 5 comments }
My dad is a Jell-O pudding kind of a guy. He won’t turn down cookies or a slice of cake, but he’ll take a refrigerated pudding concoction over any of the above 90% of the time. Given this, making a dessert for my father means deciding whether to make a no-brainer like Dream Pie or [...]
{ 6 comments }
