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American Dessert CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES INGREDIENTS ¾ teaspoon baking soda 2¼ cups flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup butter, softened ¾ cup brown sugar ¾ cup sugar 2 eggs 1¼ teaspoons vanilla 12 ounces semisweet […]
If you snack on the chocolate chips as you make the cookies, the cookies have fewer calories when you eat them later. Find more dubious advice in I Used to Think I Was Not That […]
This humor piece is from guest writer Anne Bardsley who answered our invitation for holiday-themed posts! Thirty-two years ago, I developed a serious Cookie Baking Disorder. It has plagued me every holiday season. The CBD […]
American Dessert HERMIT COOKIES INGREDIENTS ¾ cup butter (1 more tablespoon later) 1¼ cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tablespoons milk 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon clove ¼ teaspoon […]
Swedish Dessert GRANDMA ANNA’S SPRITZ COOKIES INGREDIENTS 1 cup (2 sticks) butter* ⅔ cup sugar 3 egg yolks 2½ cups flour 1 tsp almond extract (optional) SPECIAL UTENSILS electric beater** cookie gun, aka cookie press […]
There’s a post going around Facebook that basically says when my grown kids ask me what I want for Christmas, let them know I just want TIME with them. This is the mantra of all […]
As an existentialist, I ponder, if a certain-candidate-who-shall-remain-nameless wins the election, is the election still rigged? And do we contest it because it’s rigged? And, does this mean the other candidate’s classified emails were just […]
You read that right. I want a cookie, and not just any old packaged store cookie. I want a homemade one: sweet, chewy, lightly burned on one side. You know, the kind that makes the […]
American Dessert PEANUT BUTTER CHIP COOKIES INGREDIENTS 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar ½ cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 10 […]