Posts under ‘cookies’

With spring comes outdoor grilling — and what better to grill than burgers? Looking for something different to use to top our burgers, we whipped up a batch of simple guacamole to dress up the burgers with a new flavor.
Use a microplane or garlic press to get the garlic minced small enough that no large [...]

These are not your typical oatmeal cookies.
As some of you may know, there is a new man in my life. Our son was born a few weeks ago (hence the somewhat sporadic posting as of late), and consequently things have been quite hectic here at chez Icebox. Not as much cooking or baking is being [...]

It’s almost Valentines Day - time to start thinking about your sweetie. If store-bought flowers and candy aren’t your thing, how about baking some cookies? These window jam cookies are simple to make - just a few steps more than rolled sugar cookies.
To make, cut out the same number of windows and backs (I like [...]

The other day, I had one of those slap-your-forehead, duh! moments. I was getting ready to decorate some sugar cookies with colored sugar when I realized I didn’t have the color I needed. Halfway out the door to make an emergency grocery store run, it hit me - why not make my own colored sugar?
It [...]

We received an unexpected gift in the mail the other day. To say thanks, I whipped up a batch of these chocolate cherry cookies from Cooking Light. Since they recipe calls for using a mixer, they’re super easy to make and taste incredible. The tang of the cherries mixed with the chocolate is divine. I [...]

I’m a sucker for a good cookie recipe, and have been working on cornmeal cookies for a while. Most recently, I had a recipe for cornmeal freezer cookies that I had tried over the holidays last year, but it just wasn’t quite right.
This month’s Everyday Food magazine from Martha Stewart featured Cornmeal

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