DESSERT
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Greek Yogurt
If you are looking for a healthy way to satisfy your craving for edible cookie dough, then look no further! This recipe can be for snack, dessert, as a dip, or even for breakfast! You can eat it as it is prepared, freeze it and enjoy as frozen yogurt, or serve it as a dip! The recipe is so simple to prepare, and the dish is packed with protein!
Colorful Fruit Salad with Simple Honey Lime Dressing
This recipe is so simple, yet so delicious. It is colorful, and it is an easy way to eat your daily servings of fruit. Serve with or without the honey lime dressing as part of your breakfast, as part of your lunch, as a snack, or as a sweet dessert! This is the perfect dish for spring and summer!
April Fools’ Day Dish: The Best Spaghettieis (Ice Cream “Spaghetti”)
Looking for a fun way to surprise your family and friends? Then look no further than this ice cream dish–which can be initially passed off as spaghetti! Spagettieis (the technical name) originated in Germany as an ice cream dish made to look like a plate of spaghetti.
The Best Irish Soda Bread with Chocolate Chips
Irish soda bread is a quick bread, meaning it does not require yeast or time to rise. The buttermilk and baking soda act as leavening agents! Now some might argue that it is blasphemous to add chocolate chips to Irish soda bread, but I say reserve your judgement for after you eat some of this delicious, indulgent bread! This Irish soda bread is soft yet dense-and so easy to create, you can prepare it any time of the year!
The Best Gingerbread Cookies
No for real, these are the best gingerbread cookies you will ever bake. Am I the Queen of superlatives? Nah, just a truth teller! These cookies offer a taste of ginger that is not overpowering, just delicious. You can roll out the dough and cut out shapes, or prepare these as classic circle cookies-with crunchy edges and a soft, chewy middle.
The Best Lemon Cookie Bars
These tender cookie bars have lemon zest and a crunchy sugar crust ! A beautiful combination of sweet and tart, these cookie bars will be a treat for you and/or anyone who loves lemon desserts!
Simple Peppermint Patty Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Looking for a simple cookie treat? Then look no further than our Peppermint Patty Chocolate Chunk Cookies! Rich, chewy, chocolatey, and minty-these cookies are a treat that everyone loves!
Soft & Chewy Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are inspired by a treat that my older sister bakes every holiday season! The sweetness of the white chocolate offsets the subtle tart flavor of the dried cranberries. These cookies are festive–and they disappear quickly–you may want to double the recipe!
Easy Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
This cookie is a beautiful combination of salted caramel and shortbread (I mean, who doesn’t like salty + sweet?!). These cookies, which have an elevated twist on the classic shortbread thumbprint cookies, are delicious and easy to prepare.
The Best Chocolate Dipped Oreos
Is there a way to make Oreos taste even more divine?! How about by dipping them in melted chocolate?! Chocolate covered Oreos are incredibly easy to make-yet they look like you spent all day crafting them! Enjoy them as a treat, or wrap them up and share as a gift. Oreos AND chocolate? Sounds like a dream cookie to me!
Vegan Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This cookie is everything a chocolate chunk cookie should be-a combination of soft and crispy, chewy and slightly crunchy. Mark my words, this will be one of the best cookies you ever bake-and the best you eat!
The Best Classic Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are classic and sweet (like you , dear reader!). The dough can be used easily for cutout cookies. Serve (and eat) them plain, with sprinkles, or topped with icing. That’s beauty of this cookie-it is simple yet versatile!
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies. Simple. Soft. Delicious.
Peanut butter and chocolate? Need I say more? I guess I should: these cookies are simple to prepare…they’re soft (putting the fork marks in the dough prior to baking ensures softness), they’re loaded with peanut butter, and they’re loaded with chocolate. Caution: these cookies are addictive!
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These devil’s food-like cookies are soft and have a cake-like texture. Easy to prepare, these cookies are soft and chewy in the middle, and crispy on the edges.
Quick and Easy Buttery Brown Sugar Shortbread
This cookie recipe is quick and easy–and you most likely already have the ingredients in your cabinets! These shortbread are delicate, buttery, and delicious.
Peanut Butter Free Festive Monster Cookies
These festive cookies are a peanut butter free take on the classic monster cookie recipe (with a holiday twist!) The cookies are dressed up with white chocolate chips, red and green M &Ms, and peppermint candies! They are a fun and delectable treat for gift giving, for cookie exchanges, or to indulge yourself!
Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies
These adorable and colorful cookies are not only delicious, but they are fun for people of all ages to create! No matter what the size or location of your gathering, these cookies are an adorable addition to any dessert table.
Classic Homemade Apple Pie
About twenty years ago, I lived in Vail, Colorado, and spent my first Thanksgiving away from family. Two of my roommates were chefs, and we always ate freshly prepared bread and desserts.
Chocolate Swirl Coffee Cake
In 1988 my “Home and Careers” (formerly known as “Home Economics”, now known as “Family Consumer Science”-geez, is the course P.Diddy or Prince?!) teacher shared a recipe for chocolate swirl coffee cake. This recipe is an adaptation of that.