These are Gratitude Cookies. I have an appointment for a bit of physical therapy today so I made this new cookie for staff at the hospital. Snickerdoodles are a favorite for a lot of people, so naturally Hershey’s has made Kisses with bits of that cookie in them, and I’ve made my brand of Snicks … More Thanks, Hershey’s Kisses, for Snick Snicks
Remember Quarantine Bread, the simple and basic “No-knead” bread? Ingredients are stirred up in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap and a towel and thus started in its first rise the night before it’s flipped onto a floured mat in the morning, gently kneaded a few times to shape it, popped into a parchment-lined Dutch … More Whole Wheat Quarantine Bread, Sugarless Raspberry Jelly for a Birthday
Not one, but two Dutch Apple Cakes with a thinnish coat of Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting. It’s free apple season, lots of apples from local trees, and that means use them or lose them. Last week it was apple oatmeal crisp and today these cakes. I had a bee in my bonnet about maybe buttermilk … More Dutch Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting with Recipe
While today, the 14th of September, is my birthday, I baked this delicious Banana Cake with Toasted Walnuts and Ermine frosting to celebrate the birthdays of two other women as well as myself, all of us within a few days of the other. We’re also all participants in Music Night and I like to celebrate … More Happy Birthday to Yumiko, Lisa and Me
One of my mahjongg ladies gave me a small pumpkin from her garden awhile back. I roasted, pureed and froze it to bake things like this: Pumpkin Spice Bread with Semisweet Chocolate Chips and Cinnamon Red Hots. As always with my fruit breads, I use half whole wheat and half all-purpose flours. It’s easy, no … More Pumpkin Spice Bread with Choc Chips, Cinnamon Red Hots w/My Recipe
Take the recipe on the package of Nestle’s Butterscotch chips, cut the cinnamon in half, reserve 1/2 cup of the butterscotch chips for another use, add 1/2 cup Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt baking chips and 1/2 cup Sugar Babies, make dough balls the size of small walnuts and pat them down to about 1/4″ … More Double Caramel Oatmeal Scotchies
Over the past few weeks I’ve experimented with cookies made with walnuts and semisweet chocolate. Two versions were for a friend who’s a diabetic, so I used brown sugar substitute erythritol by Swerve and whole wheat flour which gives less glycemic load than all-purpose flour. The first of those used some almond flour with the … More Finding the Ultimate while experimenting with Chocolate Chip Cookies
I like to make something every year for the end of Ramadan, the occasion on which Muslims and those of us who understand it say “Eid Mubarak” which means Happy Eid. This year the manager where I live is neither Muslim nor Arab but I don’t let that get in the way of making something … More Eid Mubarak! and Chinese Sesame Tahini Cookies
In a previous post, I told the “discovery” story of how I’d found and used Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt Baking Chips in several of my own and one family recipe.* Last week I made cookies for my sister and niece (who had a birthday), and froze some dough to make a dozen for my … More Caramel Sea Salt Chip and Walnut Cookies
A neighbor grew up with a version of this cinnamon and walnut bread with Red Hots, but a piece she gave me to taste was very dry and I decided to have a go using my own base recipe for quick breads. I added a whole 5.5 ounce package of Red Hots, which was too … More Two Cinnamon Walnut Breads: One with Red Hots, One Without
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