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I’m back! Booyah!

After a few days of spam, installations and issues of all varieties, the Barefoot Kitchen is finally back, and happy in it’s new home.  The look will change, of course, but I’m happy so far.  

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On the 12th day of cookies, my oven gave to me… Saint Nicholas Cookies!

And Sugar Shuttles, Pecan Tassies, Strawberry Thumbprint Cookies, Honey Walnut Cookies and Chocolate Wafers, Fig… Read the rest of this post

(I know it’s an odd image…but I love my cow creamer, and needed an excuse to put him here!)

This is another example of the wonders of a food community. I had picked out the Sugar Shuttles… Read the rest of this post

I had sketched out my list of recipes at the beginning of this  12 days of cookies challenge – but once I saw Jerry’s post on the Pecan Tassies, I knew I had to have them.  A… Read the rest of this post

I call them thumbprints, the boy calls them jelly tops, Gourmet called them Strawberry Tarts. But there is one universal name:

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

These wonderful tiny shortbread-like cookies with jelly filling are a bite of warm weather in… Read the rest of this post

I tried to make it sound exciting – two cookie recipes in one day! – but really I was just massively busy and missed a day of baking. That’s a slap on the silpat for me.

But to make… Read the rest of this post

By far the prettiest cookies I’ve done so far, this Anise-Scented Fig And Date Swirls cookie recipe was also more complicated than most, requiring the making of the fruit puree, mixing, cooling, and rolling out of the… Read the rest of this post

One of the best moments of thanksgiving is eating all the leftover ginger snaps from my mom’s perfect sweet potato casserole. This year, I replaced that with making my own for our 12 Days of Cookies – these Read the rest of this post

We used to get almond cookies from the Italian bakeries in my neighborhood as a kid. I remember licking the powdered sugar off my fingertips as it showered down from each bite, like little drifts of snow.

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