Rugelach are light and crisp pastry dough crescents rolled up around your choice of delicious fillings. Whether you fill them with chocolate, jam, or nuts these cookies will be a hit at all holiday gatherings. Make plenty to share for cookie exchanges, care packages, and gifting. Originally published: December 7, 2012. Last Updated: December 6,…
Cinnamon Sugar Twist Cookies
Cinnamon Sugar Twist Cookies are firm, mildly sweet cookies adapted from Greek Easter cookies. They are an ideal dunking cookie, with a buttery, cinnamon flavor that goes with just about everything! For military care packages, easy ingredient adaptations can be made to make Cinnamon Sugar Twist Cookies desert safe. Originally published 10 May 2013. Last…
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Bars
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Bars are chewy, fruity, and chocolaty for a trifecta of deliciousness! These sturdy bars do not need refrigeration, making them an ideal choice for picnics or care packages.
Pumpkin Cranberry Biscotti
Pumpkin Cranberry Biscotti bring fall to your cookie jar. The season’s most popular flavor, pumpkin spice, pairs deliciously with sweet-tart bits of cranberry in this crunchy cookie.
Balloon Sugar Cookies
Balloon Sugar Cookies are undeniably cheerful. According to a quick Google search, balloons are symbolic of joy, happiness, and celebration. That is exactly what I want to communicate with these birthday cookies. With a few dots of colored icing, sugar cookies are transformed into sweet gifts of best wishes. Originally published: October 22, 2017. Last…
Kiss Cookies
The name Kiss Cookies is cute. It’s adequately descriptive and seasonally appropriate. But call those same chocolate morsels Galletas con Besos (Spanish), or Biscotti con Baci (Italian), or Biscuits de Baisers (French) and cute is transformed into epicurean and romantic. I am not sure why those languages sound so alluring. Perhaps it is the mystery…
Chocolate Coconut Bliss Cookies
When my son receives a Monday Box, his assigned task, as he happily munches, is to critique the contents. Along with tried and true favorites, I often send him cookies that I consider to be a works-in-progress. These are cookies that meet my deliciousness and care package worthy standards, but are missing a yet to…