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Very Homemade Salted Peanut Butter Cookies

Something so blatantly obvious shouldn’t seem like a mystery. Yet, I assure you that if you haven’t done so before, the first time you make homemade peanut butter you will stare at it as though some miraculous transubstantiation or alchemy has just occurred before your eyes. Squashed peanuts do, in fact, turn into peanut …click to continue Very Homemade Salted Peanut Butter Cookies

Thin Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

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So, I’ve been thinking for several weeks about oatmeal lace cookies. You know the ones…they are impossibly thin and crispy, yet full of oats. They are as delicate as lace and I assume that is where the name comes from. I have searched high and low for the perfect rendition and I’m getting the …click to continue Thin Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

Snickerdoodle Crisp Tart

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Imagine, if you will, a Snickerdoodle cookie with the topping of an apple crisp. I find that to be a very compelling marriage. My twitter friend, Milisa, of Miss in the Kitchen made Snickerdoodle Bars a few weeks ago that prompted me to get out my apron and …click to continue Snickerdoodle Crisp Tart

Thick and Chewy Chocolate Cookies

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I know I’m onto something when my daughter says a dessert is too chocolaty. That means it is just getting to that perfect, blissful, full on inappropriate place that I like. For the love of Pete, there are 16 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate in these cookies. And then there is cocoa on top of …click to continue Thick and Chewy Chocolate Cookies

Oatmeal Pecan Coconut Maple Cookies

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I know that is a rather cumbersome title for a humble cookie, but this is a special cookie and each of those components is important.

I wouldn’t ask you to make a cookie unless I were serious about it. Cookies are personal. I really get irritated with marginal cookies, because, frankly, at 40 when …click to continue Oatmeal Pecan Coconut Maple Cookies