Category: Cookies

  • Day 10: Raisin Drop Cookies

    The key ingredient to these delicious morsels… LARD! I really hope I have not scared you away.  Most people FREAK when the hear that lard was used in a recipe.  It shouldn’t scare you, or worry you.  Lard is very much the same as shortening, BUT not always substitutable.  Believe me, don’t try and google…

  • Day 9: Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

    I dislike butterscotch cookies. BUT I love butterscotch…. dilly bars! Why would I make a cookie I don’t eat?? These are not the only cookies I bake that I don’t eat. I make many things that I don’t actually like. The worst thing to make is molasses cookies.  I make those for my grandfather, only…

  • Day 8: Crinkle Chocolate Cookies!

    Lets just say even the most experienced bakers have a snafu or two in the kitchen every once and a while. When I saw this recipe, I knew I was going to make it this Christmas. I have been making more chocolate based cookies recently than I ever have in my life, and what is…

  • Day 7: Snowball Cookies

    Day 7: Snowball Cookies

    I am still waiting for a real snow in MN. Yes, we have had 2 snow days, but they only accumulating roughly 4 inches of snow.  Where is all the snow?? I guess I will have to settle for these cookies that remind me of the snowballs, something I have yet to be able to…