What should you do when you have two cartons of unconsumed eggnog that was supposed to be served at your holiday, but you got so caught up decorating (and eating) cookies and playing Rock Band 2 until 2:30 in the morning that you forgot? You start baking like crazy with it. I spent a lot of time looking up fun eggnog recipes. I had been...

Sugar cookies have a special place in my heart. Not just any sugar cookie though. Not sugar cookies from Pillsbury or sugar cookies purchased from the grocery store. I'm talking about homemade, rolled out sugar cookies cut into fun shapes. To me these cookies will forever be known as "Grandpa Cookies." I used to make sugar cookies with my...

About two days after I made my pumpkin snickerdoodles, I came across this recipe for Skinny Snickerdoodles by Chocolate Covered Katie. Considering all of the holiday baking I'm planning over the next couple of weeks, I'm doing anything I can to make great tasting, lower calorie desserts to maximize the number of cookies I can eat! So I made a...

I think these are my favorite peanut butter cookies. They have a ton of peanut butter flavor, are really soft, and sweetened perfectly with maple syrup and no added refined sugars. I really like the addition of a fairly generous portion of course sea salt sprinkled on the tops because the saltiness goes so well with peanut butter. The cookies...

Snickerdoodles are a simple and versatile cookie that you can take from a favorite, year-round treat, to a more unique seasonal treat by the addition of some pumpkin. I thought the addition of pumpkin would pair nicely with the cinnamon sugar coating of snickerdoodles. I'm not going to lie— I also liked the idea of combining the word pumpkin...

Among the millions of pumpkin recipes I have accumulated over the past few weeks, I can't even count the number of cookie recipes I have marked as a "must try" based on the pictures alone. Despite all of these recipes I couldn't find the perfect recipe for cake-y pumpkin cookies that had the right amount of spice to them. Every recipe I saw...