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Oatmeal Logs
One of my favorite things to do on Sunday afternoon is watch TV and make cookies. In the fall and winter, I’ll hopefully be able to watch the Green Bay Packers (I love Aaron Rogers!) or the Broncos. During the spring months, I tend to watch cooking shows (I don’t really care about basketball or…
Brownies No.1
I had a couple hours to spare one afternoon, so I got out my Cookies by Bess cookie book to find a quick and easy recipe to make. I stopped short on the Brownies No. 1 recipe. This recipe was perfect for three reasons. First because they are a bar cookie so shouldn’t take too…
Angel Cookies
Spring in Denver is a roller coaster ride when it comes to the weather. This particular day in late March was a pretty typical Spring weather day, it was sunny in the morning and then it snowed in the afternoon! Baking on snowy/rainy days is one of my favorite things to do, so I started…
Rolled Apricot Tea Cookies
When I think about Spring, I think about daffodils and tulips, budding trees, robins singing sweet songs, and Grandma Bess’ Rolled Apricot Tea Cookies! I just love the dainty look of these sandwich cookies with the cute cut out shapes and the tangy apricot jam filling. Rolled Apricot Tea Cookies are perfect for a luncheon…
Mother’s Poppy Seed Cookies
Mother’s Poppy Seed Cookies is one of four recipes in the Cookies by Bess cookie book that have either “Mom’s” or “Mother’s” in the title. I don’t know for sure, but I’m assuming that “Mom” and “Mother” are referring to Grandma Bess’ mother, or my Great Grandmother Anna Lazar, pictured below. This picture was taken…
Janet’s Brown Sugar Drops
How many of you have a cookie named after you? Of all the cool things about my Grandma authoring a cookie book, I think one of the best is seeing your very own name in the title of a cookie! My namesake cookie is called, Janet’s Brown Sugar Drops. Sounds pretty cool doesn’t it?! I’m…
Date Filled Pin Wheel Cookies
This week I decided to try another pin wheel cookie, Date Filled Pin Wheel Cookies. I’ve looked at this recipe several times but passed it over because I think I’m a little afraid of pin wheel cookies! I’ve tried to make them twice before (regular Pin Wheels and Peanut Butter Pin Wheels, shown below) and…
Melt Away Yummies
How can you resist the name of this cookie recipe, Melt Away Yummies? I couldn’t, so I just had to make them! When finished, I had tons of small round disk cookies about 1 inch in diameter. They have a rich and buttery flavor with a hint of almond. “Yummy” like the name says! I…
Valentine’s Hearts
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, so I’m thinking about Valentine’s Hearts cookies. I’m thinking about pinks and reds, heart shapes, and hugs and kisses. I’d like to make a cut out type cookie, so I can use my Grandma Bess’s heart shaped cutters. Thank you, Aunt Suzie, for sending me Grandma’s cookie cutters,…
Moon Beams Delicious
Hi All! I am posting this week’s blog one day early to celebrate the Super Blue Blood Moon happening before sunrise on January, 31, 2018 (at about 5:15 am mountain time tomorrow morning)! This will be the first time in 150 years that a total lunar eclipse will happen during the second full moon in a month…