Crazy Cookies – Basically They Are Just Nuts!

My original plan was to name these cookie gems: Silky Nutter Butter Cookie Puffs. Honestly, these cookie puff gems have nothing at all to do with “Nutter Butter” cookies – the store bought ones you had as a child.The title arises from the fact that the cookies are made of cashew butter and plenty of…

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Dark Chocolate Chunk Balsamic Cookies

Well, even though I “thought” I had invented something new with the addition of sweetened condensed milk and cornstarch to a cookie, eliminating the sugar and eggs – which results in a super silky and puffy baked treat – yet realized I was not the first to have this epiphany, it’s not going to stop…

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Silky Buttermilk Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Let’s face it, very few people on the face of the earth can resist a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie.The aroma and scent calls your name. I know it does.It coaxes you in – you simply can’t turn it away. These Silky Buttermilk Chocolate Chunk Cookies take that irresistible urge up another notch or two,…

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Chocolate Mint Fudge Cookies

So much better than Thin Mints. SO much better. I was happy to feed a family of 6 with five dozen dark chocolate mint fudge cookies. “Next time I come down to the Springs, maybe you could parachute a box of cookies down from your balcony to me while we’re still on quarantine.” Cookies yes….

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Great Green Goodies

Magic – Green Magic!  An amazing chemical reaction occurs between the chlorophyl in sunflower seeds and baking soda when exposed to heat – together.  Perhaps it’s just like the magical reaction that takes place in the heat of a relationship – creating something green and entirely different all together. These changes take time, though.  Things…

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