Welcome to the next installment of Holiday Yum, our Holiday recipe blog hop series! For the entire schedule, click here. Today, I have a classic recipe from my childhood: butter spritz cookies. I make it every year. It only requires a few standard ingredients, and it can give you an assortment of different-looking cookie styles. Here’s(…)
Tea and Cookies
Butterscotch Haystacks, and a story
Welcome to another installment of Tea and Cookies. I like to think of these recipes, with their emphasis on cozy yummy-ness, as a way to add to the mystery reading “experience.” This time, I have a family favorite for you, and a story to go along with it. The Haystacks Story: My mom is the(…)
Jazz up Your Strawberries!
Happy Friday! Here’s a quick recipe for dressing up your strawberries in summer style. Have a great weekend! Red,White and Blue Strawberries Ingredients: 2 lbs of strawberries, washed and blotted dry 12oz pkg of white chocolate chips blue decorating sugar, poured into a small bowl Directions: Line a baking sheet or jelly roll pan with(…)
Cookie Pizza, aka Adventures in Kid Decadence
There are a lot of perks to having kids. 1) You get to goof off in the name of “hands-on parenting.” I’d look kind of silly doing a science experiment with a bottle, pen cap, sculpting clay, paper clips, flossers, and LOTS of water…everywhere – without a kid next to me. I’m sure I looked(…)
Chai and Fruity Oatmeal Yums, from August McLaughlin!
I’m so excited to have August McLaughlin here today, as our guest cookie baker/tea barista! Not only is she sharing her fab recipes with us (homemade chai? sign me up!), but she’s also giving us some interesting background from her own family’s relationship with tea, along with a little Indian tea history. Squee! Can I keep her?(…)
Hard Day? Time for Tea and Cookies!
Today’s post is the first installment of an occasional recipe series that I will feature here, called Tea and Cookies! Tea is such a versatile beverage: hot or iced; herbal, green, white, or black; caff or decaf; loose or bagged. There are even medicinal teas for colds, sick tummies, sleepless nights, or that “time of(…)