I love this cookie! It’s my new favorite! If you’re into anything maple you’ll love these too. It all started with a sandwich cookie I came across at a speciality store. I loved this store bought sandwich cookie but it seemed to lose flavor in the second or third bite. I began a search for a similar homemade variety and settled on King Arthur’s with a few tweaks. What a perfect cookie for this time of year.
The best tea cookie, elegant delicate buttery, slightly crispy around the edges. Perfect! Try this easy recipe the next time you have a gathering and watch them disappear. Yes, perfect with ice cream too!
Are you in the mood for a sandwich cookie but a homemade one! Not sure what I was looking for. Spicy Country Kitchen was one among several blogs I came across. I really wasn’t into an oatmeal cookie, exactly, since I have so many delicious oatmeal cookie recipes. But I was taken in. The marshmallow creme filling was not appealing to me … at least not this day. Maple and peanut butter are two sandwich cookie flavors I love. The marshmallow creme has been switched out for peanut butter filling; and the ingredients for the oatmeal cookies have been reduced to make my recipe a quickie. Enjoy! And if you’d like to try Spicy Country Kitchen’s, here.
Who’s Clara? She’s a home cook I came across on Youtube. When I saw her recipe for Cucidati I knew it was one I wanted to try. Problem was a recipe that yielded 100’s of cookies was just too much for my family … even if Cucidati keep for a month in an airtight container. Clara is right … her fig cookies are the best. And Clara, the suggested whiskey is a perfect touch. Here is Clara in action in 2008 at 93 years young. I have taken her recipe and made it manageable … yielding 50+ one-two inch cookies. Make this your holiday tradition. Absolutely the best! Thanks Clara!
Mom’s recipe for Ice Box Cookies when Nucoa was a favorite cookie ingredient. No Nucoa here! If these cookies remind you of chocolate chip cookies without the chips … Yep, that’s what I taste. So, add chocolate chips if you like and you have homemade chocolate chip cookies at your fingertips. I keep a roll in the freezer for those immediate needs for family and friends. Add what you like and subtract the nuts if to your liking. Here are some great ingredients to add: assorted flavored chips, broken pretzels, crushed Butterfingers, crushed peppermint, your choice of nuts.
Look like oatmeal cookies but no! Are you looking for a cookie recipe with few ingredients? Something you can bake when the cupboards are bare! I love this Fannie Farmer knockoff for its simplicity. The taste is snickerdoodlish with packed goodness of raisins and nuts. Change it up with dried cranberries or chocolate chips if you prefer.
Grandmother Rose baked these in the fall and winter months. They’re great any time! Chewy and fruity.
Grandma always become distracted when baking these. She was a multitasker. Cookies would then over brown … fruit oozing through the pinwheel on the bottom would burn. Be careful not to do this or these cookies will be a bitter disappointment, literally.
This is my Mother’s recipe but not as I remember it. After baking, these were not Bon Bon shaped nor as dry as the original recipe she used. As she would say, they’re better the next day, and sure enough the dryness disappeared in those Bon Bon’s. The newer recipe here is quite good. And doesn’t take a day for the moistness to be noticed. The spices even seem a bit different to me. It is a mystery … the origin of this recipe. But if you like moist, spicy, nutty, full of raisin cookies you’ll love these.
I’m not sure anyone in our family was broken-hearted if our annual persimmons didn’t arrive. No one ate them except in cookies or pudding. Well, not until my sister-in-law Linda. She loved persimmons, spooning the mushy pulp from inside the skin. I thought her so brave. My brother went on to plant a whole grove of Fuyu (the squatter version of the traditional fruit) when few in the San Joaquin Valley considered this a marketable product. Or maybe that was just my thought!
Here you go. Here’s the recipe. Hope you enjoy.
It’s Pumpkin Season!
Braised Short Ribs Cheesecake Quick Bread Pasta Sauce Cupcakes
French Toast Panettone Sandies
Mini Pumpkins Popcorn Balls Torte Spice Cake Cookies
When putting together the Citrus Ricotta Cookies I noticed an additional recipe by Beads and Basil in Values, an Owasso & Collinsville Values Magazine. I knew if I baked these first I’d be making them mostly for me. Chocolate is a favorite flavor of mine. Not that my visiting family friend wouldn’t enjoy chocolate too but he had his heart set on the Citrus Cookies. My thought about the triple chocolate cookie was … Is it going to be too chocolatey? You might be thinking nothing is too chocolatey! To me when there is too much I can’t appreciate the other additional flavors. This is not the case. It truly is a cookie with at least two distinct chocolate flavors, a hint of vanilla and crunch of toasted pecans. Enjoy this recipe I’ve revised slightly to make a smaller bounty without losing the brownie-like chocolatey cookie that amazingly hangs onto its moistness (unlike most brownies).