Pecan Tassies (aka Pecan Pie Cookies)
I have a love affair with little pie shaped cookies. This time it is cookies that are in fact tiny pecan pies! I adore them, with their little nubbly tops and their gooey centers. These are lovely for dessert with a cup of coffee, make a lovely gift wrapped in a pretty bag, or are perfect for a dressed up gathering drizzled in a little dark chocolate. They also freeze very well making them a great make-ahead cookie. I used Golden...
Spiced Chocolate Crinkles
There is something magic about a soft, chewy chocolate cookie. Crinkle cookies are an attractive addition to any platter of cookies. I have a recipe that was given to me by a friend long ago which is lovely on its own, but you know me and my propensity to tinker. Inspired by my Chocolate Spice Cake I decided to add some warm spices to the cookies, and I also punched up the chocolate flavor by using more cocoa powder than the regular...
Double Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
I love to tweak recipes. Sometimes they are big tweaks, other times it is a small change with a HUGE impact. This is one of those recipes. In The Joy of Cooking there is a recipe for perfectly lovely Peanut Butter Cookies. They are traditional, with the crosshatch design on the top, in a way that screams, ‘homemade’. They are soft, peanut buttery, and really very good. In our house Christmas is not Christmas without a...
Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
On a recent trip to visit my Great Aunt Ruby I had the opportunity to copy down a few more family recipes. One of the recipes was for an oatmeal raisin cookie made with coconut and cocoa powder. It sounded unique and I jotted it down to play with later. Well, later came sooner than I imagined because I could not get the recipe out of my head. I modified the original recipe by adding a different blend of white and brown sugars,...
Bourbon Caramel Apple Pie Cookies
Here in North Texas we have had something of a cold snap. By cold I mean temps that range from upper 40’s to mid-60’s. I know there are those who snicker at my definition of cold snap, but here in my neck of the woods this is December weather. All this cool weather has put me in in the mood for all my cold weather food favorites. In particular, apple pie. One of the best apple pies I have ever had had a buttery layer...
Orange Cheesecake Cookies
There is something of a joke in my family about cream cheese. You see, my father loves the stuff. I’ve seen him eat it on crackers, with salsa, on chips, or even plain. Whenever he tries a new recipe, inevitably, his first comment is that it does not have enough cream cheese. (Most of the time he is joking … we think.) He was the reason, last holiday season, I tried to find a cookie that featured cream cheese...
