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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

By Lorraine

Do you ever get a craving for a delicious, crunchy cookie? Something to satisfy a sweet tooth with a cold glass of milk or hot cup of coffee?  Chocolate peanut butter cookies hit the mark combining two favorite ingredients. creating a cookie that is crisp on the outside with a chewy center.Do you ever get a craving for a delicious, crunchy cookie? Something to satisfy a sweet tooth and perfect with a cold glass of milk or hot cup of coffee? Chocolate peanut butter cookies satisfy that craving combining two favorite flavors with a cookie that is crisp on the outside and a chewy center.Continue Reading

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Oreo Cookie Balls

By Lorraine

Easy yet elegant recipe for Oreo cookie balls begins with just three ingredients! Mix, shape and dip in melted chocolate. A yummy no-bake Christmas treat.You don’t like rich, dark chocolate cookie with little minty pieces slowly melting in your mouth with each bite, do you. I didn’t think so 😉  But if you just happen to love decadent sweetness, you might want to make a batch of Oreo cookie balls.Continue Reading

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Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Lorraine

Of all the cookie recipes these Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies have a perfect balance of crunch on the outside and just the right chewiness on the inside. Lots of chocolate chunks and very satisfying! There are many versions of the elusive Best chocolate chip cookie. I have made many over the years. And, of all those cookie recipes I have made, I think these Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies have a perfect balance of crunch on the outside and just the right chewiness on the inside.
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Patriotic Peanut Butter Cookie Pizza

By Lorraine

Quick, easy and festive, a giant patriotic peanut butter cookie pizza is a simple recipe the whole family will love for 4th of July or birthday celebrations. Oh, it is almost Independence Day, a day for celebrating America with family, friends, fireworks and food! A giant patriotic peanut butter cookie pizza works so well for dessert. It is both festive and easy and a dessert everyone will love.Continue Reading

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Frosted Orange Crisps Pressed Cookies

By Lorraine

Frosted orange crisps are cookies flavored with orange in the dough and topped with a light orange frosting. They are crisp, tender and the citrus provides a nice surprise in each bite. Made using a cookie press similar to spritz or shortbread cookies but are sweeter. Perfect with a cup of tea, coffee or glass of milk.

Frosted orange crisps are cookies flavored with orange in the dough and topped with a light orange frosting. They are crisp, tender and the citrus provides a nice surprise in each bite. Continue Reading

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Pecan Tassies

By Lorraine

These sweet little tartlets called Pecan Tassies are like having a bite-sized pecan pie. Sweet filling in a cream cheese pastry cup, they are also known as Nut Lassies.These sweet little tartlets called Pecan Tassies are like having a, scrumptious, bite-sized pecan pie. Sweet filling in a cream cheese pastry cup, they are also known as Nut Lassies.Continue Reading

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Orange Spice Shortbread for Eating, Sharing or Gifting

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for chocolate dipped, orange spice shortbread. Delicious and beautiful with or without sprinkled nuts to enjoy with coffee or tea. Lovely addition to the holiday cookie tray and wonderful as homemade gift from the kitchen.
Did you know National Shortbread Day is observed each year on January 6th? Shortbread, with its origin in Scotland, goes back to at least the 12th century and originally started as biscuit bread. You can wait until January to make these amazing Chocolate Dipped Orange Spice Shortbread but the holidays are an even better time.

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Baking Ginger Crinkles Cookies

By Lorraine

Lightly spiced Ginger Crinkles are a favorite when baking cookies with kids. Crunchy and crackled outside with chewy center. Perfect for autumn.Remembering your childhood, what comes to mind when you think about autumn? Windy days and colorful trees? Raking and then  jumping into piles of leaves? Hayrides to the pumpkin patch and apple picking?

How about gingersnap cookies? Were you were lucky enough to have a mom or grandma that liked to bake and made these for you? Lightly spiced Ginger Crinkles are a favorite when baking cookies with kids. Their crunchy and crackled outside with a chewy center make them irresistible. Perfect for autumn snacking.

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College Visit and Lemon Tartlets

By Lorraine

It is inevitable. We know one day they will grow up and will fly from the nest. That is actually the goal for children and grandchildren. Sometimes the adjustment is harder on us than it is for the them. Lucky for me our oldest grandson isn’t too far away. An hour drive and I was on campus. With hugs, smiles and Lemon Tartlets.
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Christmas Baking

By Lorraine

Sharing some of our favorite baked holiday traditions for family, for guests, for gifts. You are sure to find something special for your Christmas baking needs with recipes for cookies, black bottom cups, shortbread, gingerbread, no-cooking peppermint bark and more.Continue Reading

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Buttery Shortbread Biscuits

By Lorraine

Lemon glazed buttery shortbread are delicious little cookie bites. Easy recipe for delicate and crumbly English tea time biscuits. Call them biscuits or call them cookies, these buttery shortbread biscuits are delicious morsels of crumbly, buttery and delicate sweetness. They are a lovely treat with your favorite beverage.Continue Reading

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Lemon Glazed French Madeleines

By Lorraine

Madeleines are small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape.  These little cakes are browned and crispy on the outside and spongy and soft on the inside. Lemon Glazed French Madeleines are a perfect accompaniment to your afternoon cup of tea.
Madeleines are small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape.  These little cakes are browned and crispy on the outside and spongy and soft on the inside. Lemon Glazed French Madeleines are a perfect accompaniment to your afternoon cup of tea.

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Sweet Treats for Your Christmas Cookie Tray

By Lorraine

Everyone is sure to find something they like from this Christmas Cookie Tray. Filled with a variety of cookies baked ahead and kept fresh in the freezer.
Everyone is sure to find something they like from the Christmas Cookie Tray. Filled with a variety of cookies that were baked ahead and kept fresh in tins in the freezer, assembling a festive plate or tray is easy. For added color and choices, toss in some foil-wrapped candies and chocolate covered cherries.

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Gingerbread Cookie Parting Treats

By Lorraine

Give your holiday visitors gingerbread cookie parting treats as a thoughtful gesture. Let them snip from a decorative swag, hung by the door, a wrapped gingerbread cookie as they depart.
Giving your holiday visitors a sweet parting gift is a thoughtful gesture. Here is a way to send them home with a little something extra that is both tasty and decorative! Gingerbread cookie parting treats is an adorable project that your guests both young and old can snip off and take along as they depart.Continue Reading

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Spritzgebäck (Spritz) Cookies

By Lorraine

Spritz or Spritzgebäck cookies, are festive and buttery, made using a cookie press then decorated with colorful sugars. Easy to make Christmas favorite.
I’m sure you recognize these buttery cookies usually called Spritz.   Spritz or Spritzgebäck cookies, are festive and buttery, made using a cookie press then decorated with colorful sugars. An easy to make Christmas favorite.

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Scandinavian Rosettes

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for Scandinavian Rosettes. Thin, cookie-like, deep-fried pastry treats are light and crispy. Perfect on your holiday cookie tray.A rosette is a thin, cookie-like, deep-fried pastry of Scandinavian origin made using intricately designed irons.  Scandinavian Rosettes are light, crispy and can be sprinkled with confectioners’ or granulated sugar.Continue Reading

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