Easy Lemon Cookies
Lemon cookies are one of my favorites! Less than five ingredients make this recipe simple and fun to make with kids. I also like the fact that you don’t have to be Betty Crocker to make this recipe, making it great for someone who is just getting into baking. I didn’t have lemon extract on hand the first time I made this recipe but the lemon flavor still came shining through. Most reviews state to leave out the lemon extract and use fresh lemon juice in place of it to help out with the fruit loop taste that some have mentioned. I think trying the fresh lemon juice will help with…
Homemade Nutter Butters
This cookie was just a blast to make. I had so much fun recreating my version of Nutter Butters. They couldn’t have turned out any better than I had envisioned. I combined a recipe that I found on Allrecipes for the cookie and Martha Stewart’s recipe for the peanut butter filling. What a combo! Definitely better tasting than the store bought version. I omitted the shortening and used unsalted butter only, reducing it by 1/4 cup. To make up for the loss of butter I added 1/4 cup more of crunchy peanut butter ;-). I reduced both sugars by 1/4 cup just to lower the sugar a bit. I think these…
Key Lime Bars With A Gingersnap Crust
Just last week a new Sprouts Farmers Market came to Sunnyvale, CA (my home town) and I was so excited to attend the Grand Opening. I packed up all the kids in the car early on the day of it’s grand opening and we headed to Sunnyvale. One word to describe the store on that day was “chaos”. I basically walked through the outer rim of the store with all 3 kids walking like ducklings behind me ;-), briefly looked at some of the goodies in the middle aisles, and then headed for the exit. I should’ve known that it would be a mad house. Well on that short excursion…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cherry Cookies
I’ve been wanting to make this cookie for my mom ever since I saw it on someone’s blog. She loves cherries and will eat them fresh, in a jar, or dried. So when I stumbled across a recipe a few months back I kept telling myself that I need to buy some dried cherries and get this cookie in the oven. Well I couldn’t find the original blog post, not sure why I didn’t bookmark it, but I searched and found this one that seemed to fit the bill. I liked that the recipe already had a reduced amount of butter in it so I only ended up reducing the…
