Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dense and chewy chocolate chip cookies made with shortening. Perfect cookie recipe with step-by-step photos and baking instructions.
Special K Bars
When I was a child my Mom would make us these amazing little bars as a treat. They were delicious and tasty. They have a sweet peanut buttery taste but a little crunch from the cereal. I just recently found out how easy they are to make. They are super simple. Just five ingredients and…
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
The other day I wanted something sweet. So I poured through my cupboards and refrigerator and all I found were the components to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. On a good day this would be awesome, but I wanted the cookies right away. Needless to say, I had to wait. 🙁 But as you can…
Thumb Print Butter Cookies
Thumbprint butter cookies recipe with jam filling. Buttery, simple cookies with strawberry or apricot jam.
A Sugar Cookie
I have been on the lookout for a good recipe to re-create the smiley face cookies that I had as a child. These are the large sugar cookies that had the hard glaze over them. I discovered the glaze but the cookie always seems to evade me. I have been making sugar cookies over the…
Recreating Dream Bars #3
So I love the Dream Bars from PotBelly’s. I have been working hard to recreate them. In order to get everything right, I went to PotBelly’s and purchased a bunch of dream bars. Come to find out, I wasn’t too far off, but I wasn’t right either. When I tasted the Dream Bars, I noticed…
Recreating the Dream Bars #2
Yesterday I posted the recipe for my first attempt at dream bars. It was extremely tasty, but not the dream bars that I was looking for. Today is my second shot. I wanted to make the crust chewier and more moist. I wanted the top to be chewy but not cookie like. So I changed…
Recreating Dream Bars #1
I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works. They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars. I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s. So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at…
Cake Mix Cookies
B6-25. Halfway batch 6.
Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Well I have made many chocolate chip cookies but never intentionally made thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. I usually make thick and chewy cookies (my personal preference), but I wanted to see what all the fuss is with crispy cookies. So I did a search looking for thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. To…
No-Bake Cookies
My Mom would always make these awesome chocolate cookies for me when I was growing up. I recently asked her for the recipe. Go figure, no-bake cookies require no baking. One pan, a little parchment paper and 40 minutes. Talk about quick treat. I couldn’t wait to try mine so I had one right after…
Vanilla Wafers
The other week I was stumbling around the internet and I came across a blog that featured a recipe for homemade Vanilla Wafers. I haven’t had vanilla wafers in years, and they looked amazing. So I decided to give the recipe a try to see if the vanilla wafers tasted as good as they looked….
Chocolate Chewies
The supermarket by my house makes these crunchy cookies that are filled with walnuts and have a chewy center. They are addictive. So I decided to look around and find a recipe for them. After a while I discovered a recipe that sounds delicious. Although it did not contain nuts, I figured we could work…
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
One of my favorite cookies is the white chocolate macadamia nut cookie. Here in DC Macadamia Nuts are quite expensive so I have never picked them up. That all changed last Thursday when I went into the local giant and they had Macadamia Nuts on sale. Granted they were salted, but they still were extremely…
Peanut Butter Cookies
The other night I was looking for something sweet to eat, but I didn’t have much in the pantry. Most cookies needed brown sugar and I was out. I also was lacking in chocolate and other sweet ingredients. Then I found some peanut butter, but peanut butter cookies require brown sugar. So I looked into…
Scottish Shortbread Cookies
Since it has been raining here in DC it has cooled off a bit. Yesterday morning it was 65 degrees. Perfect to read the paper and drink my coffee before work. The only thing missing was the perfect accompaniment to coffee. Shortbread cookies. So today, I made some light and fluffy shortbread cookies. This recipe…
Awesome Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie. You need to use both butter and shortening. If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy. If you use all…
