It’s the holiday cookie gifting time of the year! Well, we are getting into the spirit. We have been making cookie boxes as gifts for our friends and family since the mid-1980’s (please don’t try to calculate our ages based on that, lol!). Over the …
Jennifer recently traveled to Ireland and she can’t stop talking about the AMAZING dairy products! The cheese is fantastic, but the butter…ahhh the butter! Most of the butter in Ireland is salted and it is a beautiful shade of yellow, apparently due to the grass …
Happy National Peanut Day! Our Aunt Susie used to make these Salted Peanut Chews for the holidays and we would gobble them up. We loved them so much that we started making them ourselves and included them in our Christmas cookie gift boxes we shared …
Oh my gosh, you guys..summer is over! Judy’s kids start school today and many of their friends went back to school in the middle of August. How is that possible? We are never ready for summer to end. Today’s recipe for Chocolate Surprise Cookies …
Don’t these jam filled butter cookies look positively astral? Oh my goodness, you guys! They are like little suns that will brighten up your morning (or afternoon or evening) coffee or your lunch box! And, they are as delicious as they are beautiful. We used …
The end of cherry season is just around the corner here on the west coast (can you believe July is almost behind us?!). There are still many cherries to be had at our local farmer’s markets but they will begin to disappear next month. Now …
This Sunday, July 1st, is National Gingersnap Day! Initially we thought it an odd time of year for gingersnaps. We tend to associate ginger, and associated spices, with fall and winter. Think gingerbread men and women, good old gingerbread with a dollop of whipped cream …
We’ve eaten a lot of peanut butter cookies in our day. Crunchy ones. Chewy ones. Some with the little criss-cross pattern on top. Others that didn’t taste much like peanut butter at all! We think THE BEST peanut butter cookies start with great peanut butter …
Happy National Rocky Road Day! Our mom used to make the best homemade cookies when we were young. They were usually some variety of bar cookie. One of our favorites was the Rocky Road Bar Cookies she used to make. Who can resist a fudgy, …
Did we mention we love cookies around here? Well, it’s worth mentioning again…especially because today is National Oatmeal Cookie Day! While we love our many varieties of oatmeal cookies, we are certainly not traditionalists. Read: we don’t like raisins in our oatmeal cookies. We know…heretical, …