Also known as those addicitve, soft,  grocery store, sugar cookies, decorated with frosting for your favorite holiday, and plenty of ingredients you can't pronounce. I never knew what to call them until now. I also never thought they could be recreated at home, but you can get pretty close. Dustin said the powdery texture of the grocery store...

Actually these are brown butter, candied maple bacon, chocolate chip cookies sweetened with maple syrup and chock full of toasted pecans, but it seemed a little wordy for the title. While the last chocolate chip cookies I made were light and fresh, these were anything but. These were sweet, nutty, salty, chocolatey, savory and just plain full of...

Seeing all of the fresh mint bounding from the our little garden boxes in our patios inspired me to use the fresh, crisp herb from our own backyard in my baking. You've seen mint chocolate chip ice cream, so why can't you have mint chocolate chip cookies? Well now you can? These cookies don't have that artificial mint flavoring in them, but...

Why oh why didn't I buy more than one bag of Birthday Cake Oreos? I finally found them several months after searching like a madwoman and resigning myself to the fact that I'd never find them, and then I only buy one bag? I think I was trying to convince myself to eat healthier. Then of course I stuff them into white chocolate chip cookies....

I kept trying to think of Tex-Mex desserts to keep with our party's theme, but I was having a tough time. I rarely looked at the dessert menu at Mexican restaurants because I was always full on chile con queso. All I could come up with was sopapillas, which we did engage in from time to time, but I was not ready to tackle that. And tres leches,...

As a kid I was never a huge fan of white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. It was chocolate chip cookie or bust for me. But as my palette has grown to love and appreciate all kinds of nuts, I've found macadamia nuts in cookies to be heavenly. I've learned when presented with a tray of cookies to eat the white chocolate macadamia because it's a...

It's Easter Sunday! The time has finally arrived that I can finally make the adorable bird's nest cupcakes I've been seeing on foodgawker for weeks. First, make your favorite vanilla cupcake recipe. I used this recipe with yogurt as a base to reduce the amount of butter in the cupcakes to make them a little healthier.  I used vanilla yogurt...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day coming up, we made some boozy cupcakes to celebrate. It's amazing how well Guinness and chocolate pair together and make a delicious and moist cake. You don't really taste the Guinness (or else I probably wouldn't like it), but it gives the cake a flavor distinctly different from  your traditional chocolate cake....

In honor of Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras, I decided to make a King Cake. It had been awhile since my last tasting of the New Orleans treat. I remember wanting to buy one at the grocery store last year, but it seemed a little silly to buy an entire cake for just the two of us. Fortunately this year, we had guests over the weekend, so we had the...

Everybody, I'd like you to meet the perfect chocolate cookie. Perfect chocolate cookie, meet everyone. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Dustin has been begging me to make brown butter chocolate chip cookies again, but I haven't because I want to try new things. He changed his tune after tasting these. I think this...