I was searching for a Lemon Bar that could easily travel to picnics or in a care package. The bar couldn’t be fragile or need refrigeration. An ideal Lemon Bar would be chewy, creamy, and full of citrus lemon zing. Chewy White Chocolate Lemon Bars more than meets my search terms and my expectations!
Soft Italian Chocolate Cookies
Soft Italian Chocolate Cookies. A simple name for special, soft, cake-like cookie, with mini chocolate chips or chocolate raisins inside, topped with crisp vanilla icing. Golden sugar adds sparkle and flair.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cookies
Almost 25 years ago, on Mothers Day, I received my first Mother’s Day present. She was an itsy bitsy five pound premmie with black-brown hair and big blue eyes. Quite a present. My daughter made me a mother. My favorite way to celebrate Mother’s Day is being with my kids. Presents aren’t important. Shared moments…
Candy Bar Blondies
I offer the disclaimer that I am not a chocolate lover. I am a chocolate liker without a discerning chocolate palate. Except for Fanny May vanilla creams (an addiction started in college by my roommate, a native Chicagoan), I prefer my chocolate dark and plain. No nuts (allergies). No caramel (too sticky). No fruity goo…
Oreo Biscotti
Our senses can provide powerful memory triggers of people and events in our lives. The smell of cedar brings my paternal grandmother to mind. She had a large cedar chest where she kept her treasures packed away in tissue paper. As a little girl, I would listen fascinated by my grandmother’s stories about each cedar…
Espresso Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
Every rich, velvety bite of Espresso Chocolate Shortbread Cookies will delight mocha lovers. These melt-in-your-mouth espresso cookies are studded with chocolate toffee bits, for a wondrous flavor treat. Even better, this shortbread travels well in care packages and the flavor improves over time! You are sure to find many snacking and gifting possibilities for these…
3-2-1 Magic Mug Cake
This mug cake isn’t really a recipe. It’s directions for magic. There is a time and a place for cake mixes. And this is one of them. When the directions for this 3-2-1 Magic Mug Cake formula appeared in the food section of our newspaper, I had to give it a try. It is just…
Flourless Chocolate Cookies
The lure of forbidden fruit is hard to resist. Isn’t it funny how much more we want things when, for whatever reason, we can’t have them? As a child, I was allergic to chocolate, which as a result made chocolate the most desirable flavor on earth. These Flourless Chocolate Cookies would have been irresistible for…
Biscoff Toffee Crunch Bars with Biscoff Icing
I am wiggling in my seat excited to share this recipe with you. This is a chewy bar full of Biscoff flavor and toffee crunch. It even has Biscoff icing (that dries beautifully for mailing) sprinkled with toffee bits. It maintains its freshness for at least a week when stored at room temperature in an…
Marbled Chocolate Chunk Cookies
There are many good cookie recipes in the world, but finding good care package recipes is more difficult than you might think. Delicious cookies get eaten quickly. It’s a compliment to the baker that there aren’t any cookies left in a day or two. The baker doesn’t know if the cookies would have been good…