Tuesdays with Dorie Rewind: Brown Sugar-Pecan Shortbread Cookies- the one that started it all!

I am still in the process of catching up on the recipes I missed before I joined the group. I make desserts for our young adults group at church and I was already planning on bringing a chocolate snack, so I wanted to bring a non-chocolate dessert for those poor souls who don’t like [...]

Butter and Jam Thumbprints

These cookies are so much fun to make! I love how you can make them different by adding different types of jam. For this batch of cookies, I made about half with strawberry jam and half with peach jam. I’ve made these cookies before, but I’ve never found a recipe to stick [...]

Mexican Wedding Cookies

My grandmother used to make these cookies and so did my mom. I found a similar recipe from Paula Deen’s collection and made them this year as a gift. These cookies are so easy to make and look really pretty too. The recipe says to make them into crescents, but I’ve also [...]

Carrot Cake Cookies

I love these cookies. My mom used to make them all the time when I was little, and I decided to include them in my Christmas baking this year. The dough will be a bit dry at first because it gets its moisture from the carrots. This is a very soft cookie. [...]

Ginger Cookies

Ginger cookies always remind me of winter. Last year I got the Williams Sonoma Cookies cookbook and wanted to make their beautiful Double Ginger Cookies. These cookies came out even better that I had hoped. They were firm but chewy on the inside. The flavor of the cloves and ginger combine [...]