It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! I went to a party and ended up coming home with boxes of Do-Si-Dos, Thin Mints, and Trefoils. Having already consumed many cookies, I decided to use some of the cookies to make Girl Scout Cookie ice cream. Cookies n Cream is my favorite childhood ice cream, so what could…
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Passion Fruit Ricotta Cookies
After the success of the cupcakes made with gluten-free flour, I decided cookies might be another good use for that flour. My cheese buddy suggested ricotta cookies, and the local passion fruit plants are dropping ripe fruits right now… so passion fruit ricotta cookies! This guessipe made over 40 cookies, and they were all consumed…
Lavender Lemon Cookies
So far my adventures in cooking with lavender have been successful, so I’m gonna keep going. I recently had some lemon cookies at a party, and as I was eating them couldn’t help thinking a lavender lemon cookie could be a treat. It is! Guessipe 1 stick butter 1 cup lavender sugar 1 TBSP lemon…
Apple-Cinnamon Cereal Snickerdoodles
Cookbook Club – Holiday Cookie Swap As a bonus Cookbook Club event, we did a holiday cookie swap where each person chose a recipe from either BraveTart, The Cookie Collection, or Dorie’s Cookies. Then we all got together and swapped cookies, so you went with one batch of cookies and came home with a variety…
Double Chocolate Pretzel Cookies
Cookbook Club – Friendsgiving As has now become tradition, for our November Cookbook Club we skipped the cookbook and instead did a Friendsgiving meal, where each person cooked either a favorite Thanksgiving dish or one they’ve been wanting to test out. Go to my Cookbook Club site to share in the food and friends I’m…
Salted Butter Break-Ups
Cookbook Club – Holiday Year in Review The December event seemed like the perfect time to look back on and appreciate all of the fantastic food the Cookbook Club explored over the past year, so rather than selecting a new cookbook we asked everyone to make a recipe from any of the books we’d used…
Champagne Brunch
The weather is warming up, and what better way to celebrate than to have an outdoor champagne brunch! It was a wonderful way to enjoy the sunshine and do some cooking and drinking with these lovely ladies. Of course, no champagne brunch is complete without… champagne! We had plenty flowing, with options to drink it…
Tahini Cookies
Cookbook Club – Jerusalem For October’s Cookbook Club, we used Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. I made the Tahini Cookies. You can see our explorations of all the colorful cuisine of their hometown on my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I recently heard an interview with Yotam Ottolenghi where he…
Eating the Big Apple
Last year I visited a friend in New York for a few days. A couple weeks prior to the trip, he texted me to ask what I wanted to do while I was there. I sent him back a long list of eateries I wanted to check out. His response – “So I get that…
MoCh4 Cookies
These are the best cookies I’ve ever had. Bold statement, I know. But seriously, they’re awesome – a hit at every party I’ve brought them to. People are always asking me for the recipe. So here it is! I even gave them a clever name. What the heck is MoCh4? These cookies have Chocolate Chips,…
Buttered Popcorn Cookies
Cookbook Club – The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook For July’s Cookbook Club, we used The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman. I chose the Buttered Popcorn Cookies. Go to my Cookbook Club site to see the incredible spread we had at the event. For now – my dish! I was pretty excited to make these cookies….