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If you’ve been looking for simply THE BEST snickerdoodles recipe, well then, you’ve come to the right place. We are BIG FANS of cookies in our house. And I mean big! My daughter and I have been using this recipe for over 20 years now and these cookies are a winner every single time! Seriously, Read More >>
If you have never had pumpkin snickerdoodles before, you are seriously missing out. I made these cookies for the first time this weekend after finding the recipe in the November issue of Martha Stewart Living and I’m so glad I did. The HH and I gobbled the entire batch up over the course of 3 days. Read More >>
Why mess with a good thing right? I’ve been making these Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal cookies for about 10 years now. And like all good things, they never seem to stay in the cookie jar too long before the HH or the kids snatch them up. Sometimes I’ll add in chocolate chips, shredded coconut, raisins, Read More >>
I spotted this recipe in the recent addition of Family Fun Magazine* and thought I would give it a try. If you are planning on having guests over soon, I would bake this about an hour before they arrive because your house will smell amazing. If you have never made biscotti before, it’s pretty simple Read More >>
So maybe these are not cookies, but you simply MUST include them on your cookie platters this year. The Girl and I made these yesterday and had planned on freezing them to put on our Christmas trays this year, but we unfortunately we left them on counter to cool while we ran some errands. When we came home Read More >>
