I just love orange in baked goods, especially during the holidays. These delightful little cookies melt away in your mouth, with a burst of fresh orange flavor. The tradition of oranges in Christmas stockings goes way back. In my family, it was said to be for good luck. And when my great-grandmother Mary Ann Duncan…
Category: Cookies
Butter Cookies
One of my favorite family traditions around the holiday season is decorating these rich, buttery cookies. Participation is mandatory from a very young age, whether you were born into the family or joined later. We’d have different colors of frosting, all sorts of sprinkles, colored sugar, cinnamon candies, and silvers. That’s what we called the silver-colored…
Praline Bars
These decadently rich cookies are surprisingly quick and easy. You’ll have people thinking you spent a lot of time in the kitchen — if you can bring yourself to share them, that is! You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom of this page. Adapted from The Gift-Giver’s Cookbook, by Judith Choate…
Sprinkle Cookies
I saw these cookies last week on the Smitten Kitchen blog, and simply HAD to make them. It was all I could do to wait until I found some Christmasy sprinkles. Then it was all I could do to make myself give them away (you know who you are, and you are loved!) So of…
Peanut Butter Cookies
These are my absolute favorite cookies! While I’m making and eating them, anyway. I think my real favorite cookies are whichever ones are in front of me. There’s a little more art to PB cookies than some others, because peanut butters can vary. Brand to brand, and even within the same brand in different batches, sometimes…
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I like this recipe so much that I wasn’t sure I wanted to share it, but today’s your lucky day! These cookies are soft & chewy, and absolutely delicious. They’re love in an oven! I used to be indifferent to oatmeal cookies. Then I married Trip – oatmeal raisin are his favorites. So I started experimenting…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
There are probably thousands, if not millions of recipes out there for chocolate chip cookies. There was a time when I just used the Toll House recipe from the back of the Nestle Chocolate Chips package. Then Crisco changed its formula to eliminate trans fats, and baked goods just haven’t been the same since. I don’t exactly bake cookies…
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