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Rich Butter Cookies
Okay, I just have to say, Rich Butter Cookies is not the best title for this cookie recipe. When I think of rich butter cookies, I think of shortbread cookies or frosted cutouts or brown rimmed cookies…cookies that accentuate all the butter used. Cookies by Bess’ Rich Butter Cookies are filled with butter, but also…
Honey Crisps
Cookies by Bess is full of unique cookie recipes from all over the world. I often wonder where Grandma Bess found all these wonderful recipes and wish I could ask her. Of all Grandma Bess’ recipes, Honey Crisps is one of the most uniquely flavored cookies I’ve made so far! The honey combined with the…
Spice Specials
One of the things I love best about Cookies by Bess are all the unique cookie recipes. Spice Specials Is a perfect example! Not only do the cookies have a unique taste, they have a combination of ingredients I haven’t seen before. A unique cookie with an earthy and wholesome taste! After baking and tasting Spice…
Pecan Delights
As I work my way through baking all the Cookies by Bess cookie recipes, it is amazing to me how good the finished cookies are. I just love how the cookie recipe titles highlight or accentuate the cookie type, taste, or the ingredients. But after baking Pecan Delights, I can say it is the first…
Walnut Butter Cookies
Another super unique cookie recipe from Cookies by Bess, Walnut Butter Cookies combine a ton of butter with a surprise ingredient, instant coffee…along with all the other normal cookie ingredients. The coffee flavor in Walnut Butter Cookies is subtle. You can definitely taste the flavor, but it’s perfectly blended with all the other ingredients to…
“Cookies baked with love”
The Green Bay Press-Gazette’s Food section writer Diane Page interviewed Grandma Bess way back in December, 1980 and published the below article titled “Cookies baked with love”. I can’t think of a better name for an article written about Grandma Bess than, “Cookies baked with love”! Grandma Bess talked to many newspapers, radio and TV talk…
Chocolate Mint Dreams
Dream Dream and then Dream some more…about Cookies by Bess’ Chocolate Mint Dreams! I think Chocolate Mint Dreams are the perfect cookies for chocolate lovers. My brother and niece have been making this recipe for years. I’ve made them twice now (as you’ll see by the frosting colors shown below). It’s easy to see why…
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies from Cookies by Bess have to be one of the prettiest cookies I’ve made! The chocolate cookie rolled by it’s self is wonderful…roll it in nuts or sugar and top with a bit of icing and you’ve got a cookie that lands on my list of top 10 favorites. I just love…
Mother’s Spicy Molasses Cookies
Mother’s Spicy Molasses Cookies is one of several recipes in Cookies by Bess from Grandma Bess’ mother, Anna. Anna Lazar was a mother of 8 children (7 girls, 1 boy). In this picture, Anna is sitting in the middle and Grandma Bess in sitting to the far right. Anna Lazar was also a wonderful baker…
Surprise Almond Cookies
Surprise Almond Cookies is a fun cookie recipe that hides a candied cherry inside a butter and almond cookie. It took me a while to make this recipe because candied cherries are only available during the holidays. Luckily, I remembered to pick some up during this past holiday season. Cookies by Bess has one other…