Take what is essentially a lemon shortbread dough and add raspberry jam and you have a crumbly, soft cookie that will leave you fulfilled in an other worldly way. If there are people who say they do not like raspberry thumbprints, make sure they are off your holiday card list next year. These people do [...]
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Creme de Menthe Hearts Chocolate
I think it was the moment when I had my first spoonful of Jell-O chocolate mint pudding that lead to my affection for the mint-chocolate hybrid. In my eyes, it beats chocolate and peanut butter hands down. But it is still second place to chocolate and more chocolate together. Recipe: Chocolate Mint Cookies (Adapted from [...]
A Sugar Coated Classic
What are the holidays without the taste of ginger? Well, I guess if I put it that way, it would be okay and just ginger free. But nevertheless, gingerbread cookies that you do not have to decorate are a plus in my cookie recipe collection. Coated in the requisite glimmer of sugar and chewy enough [...]
Save Room for Something Sweet
I think there is some truth to the notion that people always remember dessert after the night is done. I am one of those people who, without a doubt, can manage room for dessert because, to me, it is the perfect ending to good eatin’. I put so much emphasis on it that I was [...]
Flour, Sugar, Butter…the Holy Trinity
There is a healthy, if not borderline psychotic, need to be competitive at my work place. As a natural born pacifist who likes to be a wallflower rather than a raging, combative version of some of my co-workers, I tend to not participate and like, instead, to watch on the sidelines as people sharpen their [...]
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