Flour is my nemesis.  It seems like every time I set out to bake something tasty I have a nasty fight with the flour.  I don’t mean I end up wearing it or it gets all over the kitchen, I mean I’m always left guessing how the recipe I’m looking at happened to measure the stuff. These cookies are a great example of how everything can go wrong in a matter of minutes.  Okay, I’m being a bit dramatic, but when you follow the recipe and end up with sewer cap sized cookies instead of what you expected you get …

Holiday cookie baking has officially begun in our home.  Yes, I’m one of those people that start early.  When you make a lot of cookies, you kind of have to start early or you’ll never finish.  I even had Christmas music rockin’ in the background while I was baking these beauts. I’ve kicked off my holiday baking extravaganza with these confetti cookies.  These are like good old sugar cookies for people that don’t really do cut-out sugar cookies.  I’m too much of a perfectionist and I easily get frustrated with the whole process of rolling and cutting.  So I was excited to find these easy …

I have a secret.  I used to hate thin cookies.  I thought that they were the worst thing in the baking world.  Don’t judge me… I can hear the gasps all over the internet now!  😉 I’ve learned over time that there are two kinds of flat cookies in this world.  There are ones that end up flat and gross due to a baking catastrophe (like not enough flour).  Then there are ones that are meant to be thin and delicious, like these wonderful brown sugar beauties. Side bar.  I get attached to my kitchen tools and when I need a replacement …

My entire family gets together every year for a long weekend in Lake George, NY.  It’s basically a food fiesta with some swimming and mini golf.  I can’t wait!  We’ll be heading there later this month so I took a poll of what my peeps wanted me to bring (food wise). “Panera chocolate chip cookies”!  (That’s what we call them because they look and taste just like the ones from that restaurant chain.)  You know them as the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies. Of course I’ll happily comply with such request, but it got me thinking.  The cookie base from that recipe is amazing so …