Chocolate, Peanut Butter, & Oatmeal Cookies

Let me start off by saying that these cookies are pure genuis.  We recently moved, and before we had everything unpacked, I found myself wanting something chocolate for a snack but didn’t have room to make a huge mess, and didn’t have my kitchen organized yet, so I needed something simple.  I enjoy baking cookies, [...]

Iced Oatmeal Applesauce Cookies

I haven’t made oatmeal cookies in such a long time, but when I was flipping through Martha Stewart’s Cookies, I thought these sounded perfect.  I really like the combination of apples and oatmeal, so I thought these would be perfect.  These cookies were simple and didn’t take long at all to make, and don’t even [...]

Chewy Chocolate-White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I love chocolate cookies, and I was in the mood to bake some.  I was looking at chocolate cookies I had bookmarked, and I remembered this one from Confections of a Foodie Bride.  She talked about how she was obsessed with a particular cookie from the food court, and I happen to agree that food [...]

Monster Cookies

I was looking for a good cookie to make, and these seemed to fit the bill perfectly.  Monster cookies are basically a combination of everything- oats, M&Ms, chocolate chips, and peanut butter.  I think it would be good to even throw some raisins in there!  These are incredibly easy to make.  The recipe states that [...]

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

I am a huge fan of peanut butter.  I’ve loved it ever since I was a little kid, and I love making peanut butter desserts.  I was looking for a peanut butter cookie dessert to make, and I saw these on the Joy of Baking website and thought they looked perfect, especially since I’ve been [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I’m not Irish, even though I do have a very Irish name (Erin), but I think it’s a fun holiday to celebrate anyway.  I have been wanting to try my hand at royal icing for quite a while now, and I decided that this way the perfect holiday to try it [...]

Vanilla Creamsicle Whoopie Pies

I have recently discovered a love for making sandwich cookies.  I’m not a big cookie person.  I’d rather enjoy a nice brownie or a piece of cake, and my favorite part of cake is the frosting.  Sandwich cookies give you the opportunity to be able to enjoy some frosting with your cookies as well, and [...]

Triple Threat Chocolate Cookies

As I was going through The Pastry Queen cookbook, I knew that I wanted to make these cookies right away.  I decided to make these on a night when I needed to make a dessert, but didn’t have time to go through a bunch of fussy steps.  These cookies looked easy enough, so I decided [...]

Peanut Butter Cup Surprise Cookies

We have the most amazing group of friends, and we make it a point to get together at least once a month (more if possible) to go out to dinner.  Usually we go to someone’s house afterwards, and I like to make a dessert and play hostess:)  It usually takes me a long time to [...]

Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

Happy Valentine’s Day!  I hope that whatever you are doing, you are spending it with someone special, whether it’s your husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, or a group of your best friends.  David and I have never been ones to celebrate Valentine’s Day in a big way.  We usually get each other candy (he [...]