cookie recipes

Cherry Toasted Almond Oatmeal Cookies

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I've mentioned before how my grandma used to bake walnut oatmeal raisin cookies for my grandpa every week. She stored them in the freezer in a plastic container with a lid, each layer separated by a piece of waxed paper, and they tasted every bit as good as when they were fresh baked after a [...]

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Iced Cut-Out Halloween Sugar Cookies

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Martha Stewart makes icing cookies look so incredibly easy, you know? So when Wilton asked me to recreate one of their Walmart Halloween baking projects, I figured these ghoulish iced Halloween sugar cookies would be a snap! Boy, was I ever wrong... It's not that they were terribly difficult to make. But what Martha's producers [...]

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Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

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While my favorite cookie is one of these chocolate crinkle cookies, every cook should have a good recipe for sugar cookies in his or her repertoire. This particular recipe produces a cookie that is a standout on its own, with a buttery, just-sweet-enough flavor. Give it a light dusting of granulated sugar and enjoy their [...]

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies {My Fave}

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For as long as I can remember, I've equated these chocolate crinkle cookies with Christmas. My mom baked dozens upon dozens of Christmas cookies each holiday season, but chocolate crinkles were the cookie I looked forward to the most. Fresh from the oven with a crispy, crackled outside and a chewy, rich and chocolatey inside [...]

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Recipe For Buckeyes {Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls}

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If you're from anywhere else in the country, you probably call this recipe peanut butter balls. But here in Central Ohio, where we bleed scarlet and gray, this is the recipe for Buckeyes. No respectable Ohio State vs. Michigan bash would be complete without them, and a freezer full of these little delicacies is a [...]

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How To Make Pizzelles + Recipe

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My husband has been begging me to make pizzelles for weeks, telling me all about how his grandmother made them every year for Christmas. How an Italian cookie became a Polish family tradition is beyond me... So I scoured the Internet for a pizzelle recipe and using several different sites created one that sounded like [...]

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Toasted Almond Crisp Cookies

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Oh my goodness -- it's a good thing the second tray of these Toasted Almond Crisp Cookies didn't turn out, because I cannot. stop. eating. them! I started with this Lace Cookies recipe, thinking I'd like to substitute toasted almonds for the pecans. After toasting the almonds and readying my dough ingredients, I realized that [...]

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