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Brown Butter Icebox Cookies

As often happens to me these days, I had the urge to bake, but not much to work with.  But if you have butter (and flour and sugar), you have everything you need!  I’ve expressed my love of brown butter before.  Brown butter has this nutty wonderful flavor and can transform a baked good or even [...]

Holiday Baking: Oreo and Nutter Butter Truffles

If you’ve been part of a cookie exchange or received some gifts from the kitchen this Christmas, then there is a good chance you have seen these.  A super simple, three ingredient treat that looks way more impressive than it actually is.  These cute little goodies are so sweet and so yummy. When you [...]

Holiday Baking: Chewy Ginger Cookies

I’ve always called these gingersnaps, but they cannot accurately have that name since there is very little “snap” to them in texture.  If you’re looking for a crispy gingersnap, this is not the cookie for you.  These cookies are incredibly delicious and something that always makes me think of this time of year.  After I [...]

Holiday Baking: White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Hello, my long lost food blog.  It’s been a while.  Here, have some cookies. Our family has been busy.  And it’s not just the wonderful chaos that ensues once November hits.  We just moved to Houston from Amarillo, and have been spending the last 3 months living apart and driving all over the great state [...]

Peanut Butter Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is there any better combination?  Maybe if I’d added caramel in some capacity… Peanut Butter Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened 1 cup peanut butter (chunky or smooth) 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking [...]

Crispy Cinnamon Pecan Cookies

This recipe is from a Junior League of Austin cookbook that I borrowed from my mom’s house.  Thanks, mom : ) These cookies are called English Toffee Cookies in the cookbook, but I took the liberty of changing their name to be more descriptive.  They are a little like toffee with their salty sweetness, but [...]

Trail Mix Cookies

Trail mix is one of my favorite snacks.  I am not active enough to really need the calories and nutritional value it provides, but it’s still not as bad as chowing down on a bag of potato chips, right?  Right… Not only is trail mix delicious, but it’s an easy snack to take along with [...]

Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

There are no words.  Just salivation. Baking Bites (link here) does a post called “Bites from Other Blogs” where she  introduces you to new food blogs and recipes.  This one caught my eye, and thanks to always buying more than I need I had a fresh box of OREOS in the pantry!  It was fate, [...]

Oatmeal, Pecan, Coconut & Butterscotch Cookies

A bag of butterscotch chips in my cupboard greeted me (by falling out onto the counter) the other day and so I took this as a sign to make something with them.  I found a recipe for pecan and oatmeal cookies, and so I just added the coconut and butterscotch chips because I have this, [...]

Pumpkin Cookie Pies

It is starting to really feel like fall here.  The evenings are cool, the leaves are starting to change and fall off the trees, and it is now permissible to make fall flavored desserts!  So, in honor of this wonderful season I bought 4 cans of pumpkin and am going a little crazy baking pumpkin [...]