These cookies looked so fancy and delicate, I just couldn’t resist.  It also helps that I’m a sucker for oranges and almonds – what could be better than the combination?

I cite one of my co-worker’s quotes here –… Read the rest of this post

Day 2, and on to some chocolate.

I am not a chocolate eater, but I know that I am a rare in that, so I have learned to both turn out and appreciate a good chocolate dessert.  These Brownie… Read the rest of this post

It’s back!

Once again, myself and several other intrepid bakers (check out the links at the bottom of the post)  are taking on two weeks of grueling cookie madness.  For the next 12 days, I will be posting one… Read the rest of this post

The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.

Milanos were… Read the rest of this post

Since this season usually makes me crave things that sit in the stomach like a hibernating bear, it was actually a refreshing change to try baking these lighter-than-air tuile cookies for the Daring Bakers Challenge.  Even better, I got… Read the rest of this post

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