Sugar Cookie Icing (Redux)

Today is all about love, cookies, and icing. I wanted to pay homage to this icing recipe, my first recipe blog post ever. Maybe it’s nostalgia talking, but it’s worth highlighting again because it’s still my favorite sugar cookie icing recipe. It’s tasty, pretty, and it hardens perfectly. It’s all the things that one looks for in a great sugar cookie icing recipe. This icing is also easy to use. I just spread it on with a butter knife and as it settles it magically smooths out all of my imperfect lines. If you’ve been following my blog for a …

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Black and White Heart Sugar Cookies

Have you made your quintessential heart shaped cookies for Valentine’s Day? I surprised myself by wanting to make cut-out cookies because I tend to avoid making them.  I’m a perfectionist so the process of rolling and cutting cookie dough is daunting to me.  That’s a nice way of saying that I get easily frustrated when I don’t roll out the dough to be the same exact thickness for every single cut-out and I usually throw a temper tantrum for trying over and over again to get it right.  Unfortunately my husband has been a witness to those very events in the past so for both …

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Cherry and White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who likes to make holiday themed goodies?  I do. I’m sad that the Christmas season has passed because that means that I don’t have an excuse to make dozens and dozens of cookies.  Hmm…  or do I?  I have a cool idea.  Valentine’s Day is a holiday, and it’s even still cold out so the hot oven won’t make the kitchen unnecessarily warm, and it’s even right around the corner! I just bought this sweet heart printed blouse, these cute heart pajamas, and I painted my finger nails with red polish with gold sparkles.  It’s not that far fetched that I’m …

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Blondies

I bought a bag of Valentine’s Day colored M&Ms the other day.  How should I have fun with them?  (Aside from eating them by the handful.)  Well, chocolate is best friends with peanut butter so let’s have a party with the two flavors! I made these super thick and chewy peanut butter blondies and coated them with chocolate and M&Ms. Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Blondies Recipe (Makes 16 bars) Ingredients: 2/3 cup butter (roughly 1 stick and 3 tablespoons) 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose …

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Black And White Cookies

Black and white cookies.  It sounds like a name that a kid would give a cookie, but many of us know that the reference is to those iconic cookies that orginated from New York bakeries.  My entire family LOVES them.  I mean really loves them.  What better to celebrate my love for them this time of the year but to bake them these cookies.  They are a labor of love (you’ll see why), but my family is worth it.     🙂 These large cake-like cookies are coated with a thick layer of sweet frosting, half vanilla and half chocolate. Black …

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