We have been making these cookies for over 25 years and just decided to rename them Superhero Cookies! They are packed with ingredients and the primary colored M&Ms are total comic book colors! You can make them any size, but why not make them SUPER size!!!! We won't stop you from eating them for breakfast either! Ingredients 1 cup butter, soft 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup ... Continue Reading...
Peppermint White Chocolate Chip Cookies
How we love minty flavors at Christmas time!!!!! We have one month to bake all our favorites! This one is a fun one especially if you have friends and family who don't love mint and chocolate (gasp). It's cookie dough with crushed candy canes and white chocolate chips. Ingredients 2/3 cup butter 2/3 cup chortening 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons ... Continue Reading...
Our Famous Gingerbread Cookies
Our favorite thing about Christmas might just be our Gingerbread Cookies! This recipe has been in our family for almost 40 years and you can't beat it! We dare you!!! Double the recipe if you want them to last more than a day!! Gingerbread Cookies 1/4 cup butter, soft 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1/3 cup water 3 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking ... Continue Reading...
Almond Spritz Cookies {Christmas Cookies}
This is our all time most favorite most baked most eaten and most loved Christmas cookie recipe! It's the same one our mom made when she was a little girl! We have to have these on hand at all times during December. They are perfect with a cup of cocoa and a Christmas movie! Almond Spritz Cookies 1 cup butter, soft 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons almond extract 2 1/2 cup ... Continue Reading...
Almond Cream Cheese Frosting
Next time you go to make sugar cookies - try using this frosting to mix things up! Your friends will beg you for the recipe! We made these cute little circle cookies by using our Just Like Mom's Sugar Cookie Recipe and using a small biscuit cutter. We piped the frosting with a large frosting tip and added glitter sprinkles. Almond Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients 1 package cream ... Continue Reading...
Just Like Mom’s Sugar Cookies
We've been making this Sugar Cookie recipe in our family for about 40 years now. You can't really improve on perfection!! These cookies are thick and soft and sugary - just like they should be. No fancy decorating here - we like a thick layer of butter cream frosting spread with a knife and topped with nonpareils. Sugar Cookies 1 1/2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 2 ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Drop Cookies
Awhhhhh the soft, pillowy, spicy pumpkin drop cookie with cream cheese frosting!!! This is classic fall. The cookies are more "cakey" than "cookie" and have cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves!! Every fall the kids beg for these and when we run out they fuss for more!!! Let's get baking!!! Makes about 3 1/2 dozen. Ingredients 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup canned ... Continue Reading...
Crackle Top Cookies
This recipe is a family fall favorite!! Molasses, cocoa, cinnamon, and cloves make these chewy crinkle top cookies some of our favorite to bake during fall and winter. They go great with a hot cup of hot cocoa! Crackle Top Cookies Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ... Continue Reading...
Our Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ok friends - get ready to throw away all your excising chocolate chip cookie recipes and replace it with this one! We have made almost every chocolate cookie recipe that has crossed our path and this is the one that we always go back to. It has the perfect combination of crunch and chew and it's not too flat and it's not too puffy! It's just perfect! When you want a traditional chocolate chip ... Continue Reading...
Coconut Cereal Cookies
This is one of our ALL-TIME favorite cookie recipes! It's a little spin on a traditional oatmeal cookie The secret ingredients are coconut and Rice Krispies! Sometimes I substitute a little wheat flour and offer the cookies to the children for breakfast! Yes! Cookies for breakfast please!!! Coconut Cereal Cookies 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 2 ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
It's fall and if we start now we might be able to bake all our favorite pumpkin recipes before Christmas baking season begins! These cookies are always a huge hit and my kiddos gobble them up before I can take them to friends and neighbors. They have the perfect combination of spice, chocolate, pumpkin, and chewy! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 cup softened butter 2 cups brown ... Continue Reading...