Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies!

So whenever I see cake mix for like a buck a pop, I generally stock up. Cake mix doesn’t exactly sit around and collect dust. Well, for me it doesn’t at least. And it’s not that I even make all that many cakes. I’ll totally jump at an opportunity to whip up something for someone’s [...]

Super Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies That Vaguely Resemble Brownies

So in the grand scheme of Putting Things Off Until After The Last Minute, I will write about pumpkin cookies now that Thanksgiving is officially over. Oops! But never fear, pumpkin items are meant to, nay demand to be enjoyed year-round, as often as possible. My initial intent was to make some pumpkin spice cookies [...]

Guest Post: Good Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Here’s another post by Julie, yay!) It must be done. These chocolate chip cookies are just too good to keep a secret any longer. These cookies have been passed down the generations from Drew’s and my grandmother. They’re made with sugar, brown sugar, Crisco, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking soda, oatmeal, chocolate chips, and optional [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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