Cookie baking madness 2008 is finally winding down to a close. We made the dough last weekend, but I ended up not taking my usual work-from-home-day this week, and the sugar cookie making/decorating was to be Freya’s art project that day. So, after she arrived home (and watched Polar Express for the thousandth time) from her weekend [...]
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Posted in Holidays, cooking, tagged cookies, cooking, Holidays on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We made my second favorite cookies today: butter nut cookies. They call for walnuts, but I always make them with pecan chips. Notice a theme in my favorite sweets–they typically involve nuts.
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Posted in Holidays, cooking, tagged cookies, cooking, Holidays on December 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Tis the season for hanging out in the kitchen and creating wonderful sweet treats for the mouth. I finally was persuaded to make what my girlfriends call “crack pretzels”. As in, as addictive as crack. They promise me that people will love and adore me for offering them these fabulous treats. I couldn’t resist, so [...]
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To make and decorate a gingerbread house. I’ve never made one…from a box kit or from scratch….never. I’m a little surprised I haven’t. I want to, I just don’t see the need for having a big $10 cookie lying around, open to the air, and basically inedible, especially since we are not hosting anything this [...]
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Posted in cooking, tagged cookies on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My cookie tin is gone
It was here yesterday when the last person left at 6:30 and I had placed the top on it to save the remaining cookies for today before I left at 4:15. And when we came in this morning, it was gone. Darn it. And it had my initials on [...]
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Sunday was cookie-making day at my house. I thought it would be a nice touch for Dave and I to take holiday cookies to the office and I figured that Freya would enjoy making food art, which of course, she did. She is a great sifter of confectioners sugar and flour, which is a job that [...]
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Posted in cooking, tagged cookies, cooking, squash on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What would you think if I told you I made Butternut Squash Cookies? Well, something had to be done with that second squash, and I wasn’t really very hungry, so I made some goodies to take to the office.
The recipe is from Recipezaar.com, it’s recipe number #13496. I don’t recommend doing what you’ll see in [...]
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