Mary’s Mountain Cookies in Breckenridge, Co

For the last several days, about 1/2 of all of the food that I’ve eaten could easily be placed in the category of “dessert.” This is a combination of everyone who buys me presents knowing that I like chocolate and many people that I visit disliking having bunches of junk food around after a gathering, [...]

Festive Sugar Cookies

So, I recently decided that it was sugar-cookie making time. I am a big fan of sugar cookies, and Christmas generally provides a good excuse for making them. It’s the same recipe that I’ve used for approximately forever and a half for making sugar cookies, and I shall include it here:
1/2 cup butter/margarine
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 [...]

High Altitude Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

So for those who are unaware, I’ve recently moved from VA to CO. Still looking for that elusive thing called “employment”, but until that happens I’ve got spare time for baking, I suppose. And this means getting accustomed to using the teeny “high altitude” instructions on cake and brownie mixes. Apparently the main thing is [...]

Hamantaschen and their nefarious fillings

So I decided to get my hamantaschen on the other day. Which was a completely random occurrence, as up until a week prior to that I had no idea what hamantaschen were. I found myself meandering all over the internet and stumbled across them, and then I thought to myself, “Hey, I like triangles! They’re [...]

It doesn’t get much better then purple chocolate chip cookies

I get super excited when I make food that’s white. This is because white food is the easiest food to dye colors. This works best, for some strange reason, with desserts. I have on many an occasion thought that it would be a fabulous idea to dye rice. For example, I think pink sushi would [...]

Minty Christmas Sugar Cookies

I own the recipe for the best sugar cookies in the entire universe. Not just the entire world, or even the entire galaxy. I mean, the entire universe. It’s a recipe I got from my friend Lynness back in high school, back when I viewed it as completely normal to eat about ten of these [...]

Sugar Cookies with Wheat Flour

I’d been planning on making sugar cookies for awhile. See, there’s been a large quantity of sugar cookie frosting sitting in my freezer for entirely too long, and I’ve just been waiting for a good opportunity to use it. As I’m not quite sure how long frosting lasts, even when frozen, I finally decided to [...]

The Easiest Pumpkin Cookies in the Entire Friggin Universe

So this is fabulous.
I’m poking around allrecipes.com, thinking that it’s high time I made some cookies with pumpkin in them. See, I had this visionary idea awhile back. It was when I first discovered that you, indeed, could use a cake mix to make cookies. My brain was squishing around all of the different [...]

Spice Cookies (of Joy)

So I made these cookies. These super awesome cookies that at first seemed like they were totally gonna be duds. See, I mixed all of the non-’chunk’ ingredients in, and the batter was still pretty much powder. But then I dumped in all the ‘chunk’ ingredients (apples, walnuts, raisins, chocolate chips) and squished it all [...]

Magical berries, in cookie form!

A magical boon befell Drew and I this past Saturday. It was a ‘getting lost while going to one’s intended hiking destination, and ending up in an area extremely overripe with raspberries’ kind of day. Much picking was had, about 2-3 quarts worth I’d say. Glorious it was. There are the makings for many many [...]

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