I love baking cookies, but recently I’ve starting trying to come up with slightly healthier options. Healthier in this case means saving a whole half cup of butter and adding fruit instead of chocolate. Hey, baby steps, right? The inspiration for this recipe comes from one of my husband’s family’s that they’ve had for years [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘cookies’
March 5, 2010
Chewy Chocolate Cookies
It’s a given that at least once a week I will make a batch of cookies. And it is inevitable that if I ask Brian what kind of cookie he’d like he’ll answer “Chocolate chip”. He’s nothing if not consistent. So finally one day when I asked him what kind he would like I also threw [...]
January 3, 2010
Snickerdoodles
My snickerdoodles are kind of famous within my family. Or is it infamous? When I was about 14, I’d say, I made a batch of snickerdoodles using my mom’s recipe. It’s one of the first clear memories I have of baking something completely by myself (although I’m sure I had done it before). It went [...]
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October 13, 2009
Buttery & Delicious Peanut Butter Cookies
When I was growing up, my mom would often make cookies (She still does, in fact) and I have vivid memories of walking in the front door and smelling peanut butter cookies baking (odd, since she made chocolate chip considerably more often). More often than not, my mom would surprise me with a little dough [...]
September 8, 2009
100th Post! Homemade Girlscout Samoas
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a very pregnant woman and she was constantly hungry due to the fetus sucking the life out of her. One day, the gigantic pregnant woman was sitting at work, ready to eat her arm off from hunger. Suddenly, her boss walked in carrying [...]
August 7, 2009
The Chewy (or rather, The Fluffy) Chocolate Chip Cookie
These cookies have been making their rounds on cooking blogs for a while now. It seems like every time I open my Google reader there’s another The Chewy post. But, I understand why! YUM! However, Brian and I decided that The Chewy was a bit misleading. We didn’t find them chewy, so much as [...]
July 30, 2009
No-bake Oatmeal, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cookies
My mom used to make these cookies often when I was growing up and I LOVED them, but since moving out on my own, I’ve misplaced and subsiquently forgotten about her recipe. When these cookies showed up a few times on food blogs in my Google reader I decided I absolutely had to make them [...]
April 5, 2009
Ginger Molasses Cookies
I absolutely love gingersnap cookies, but I really prefer my cookies to be softer, chewy-er than the traditional gingersnap is. Enter: These cookies. They’re marvelous. As a matter of fact, I made them last week and the next morning all but 5 of them had already been eaten. Apparently The Husband liked them too Ingredients: [...]
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March 20, 2009
Soft-yet-crunchy peanut butter cookies
You know what is a beautiful side of pregnancy? Cravings. I haven’t had many of them this time around, so when they strike I think it’s really important that I pay attention to them. So tonight, I suddenly thought to myself “You know what sounds amazing? Peanut butter cookies!” I immediately went to the cupboard [...]
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March 20, 2009
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I really like to try and justify eating crap-for-you foods. Ice cream craving? Oh, that’s dairy. You need calcium. You don’t want osteoperosis, just ask Sally Fields and her Boniva commericals. Pasta? Oh, it’s carbs for energy- you marathoner, you. Chocolate? Um. Duh. So I have a heyday with oatmeal cookies. Hello, that’s practically health [...]
