It’s officially cookie baking season!  Aka, “bake until your back and feet hurt and you run out of eggs or flour or butter” season. I love to bake cookies for my friends and family for the holidays.  I mean cookies, yum, hello.  I bake different ones each year but I always, always, always bake some kind of peanut butter and chocolate cookie.  This year I’m baking these classic peanut butter blossoms. I bet that you’ve seen these cookies before and maybe you’ve even made them.  They’re the kind of cookie that you make every holiday because it’s tradition (and because they’re …

Guys, I have a chocolate cookie winner here. The other day I said that I won’t get suckered into decorating for Christmas yet.  Although I still love ya if you are already decorating (cough, cough, mom 😉 ).  I always decorate the weekend right after Thanksgiving day and that’s still the plan this year.  I’m having friends over tomorrow and the table is decorated with pine cones, miniature pumpkins, candles, and flowers.  So I’m definitely still embracing all things related to Fall. However, I will admit that I’m already watching Christmas movies.  The Hallmark Channel started their Countdown to Christmas the weekend before Halloween …

I originally posted this recipe in August 2013 but I’m posting it again. These cookies are amazing.  They are the kind of cookie that people ask you to make over and over again, and I have.  Unfortunately, the original recipe has gotten a bad rap and I’m hoping to fix that here.  I love this recipe so much that it’s worth trying again. The secret of success for this recipe is a very easy.  Measure the flour correctly.  Yup, that’s it, folks.  To measure flour correctly, use a spoon to loosely pile the flour into a measuring cup and then level it off with a butter knife. …