The Best Cookies Bake Off Ever

Drop Cookies 

Drop cookies are the ones I make the most often. They are also quite easy as you simply drop balls of dough from a spoon onto your cookie sheet.

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No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

No-Bake chocolate oatmeal cookies with peanut butter is a favorite recipe, one that nearly everyone loves. The recipe is quick and easy to prepare, great to take to a cookie exchange or give as a gift, but if you're planning to give them away, be sur...

Pumpkin Cookies

Like a pumpkin whoopie pie, these pumpkin cookies have a soft, cakey texture and a cream cheese frosting filling. They are great for Halloween parties or for a unique and tasty alternative to pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.

The Best-Ever M&M Cookies Recipe

 Are you looking for the best-ever M&M cookies recipe? Well search no more! On this page, you will find what I consider the only recipe for M&M cookies because why would you mess with perfection once you've found it? This recipe is p...

Best Coconut Macaroons Recipe

I will demonstrate how to make one of the most delicious pastries in the world:Chef Keem's Chocolate-dipped Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons. Can you believe it - they're egg and wheat free! Just in case you're wondering, these rich macaroons are grea...

No Bake Chocolate Nut Cookies

No Bake Chocolate Nut Cookies! You had me at No Bake and Chocolate, let alone add in nuts! This recipe is perfect for those times when you want something sweet and don't want to heat up your kitchen, or if you want something easy to make that you...

Yum! Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies!

My grandma was the best country cook that ever lived. So maybe I'm biased but she was truly one amazing cook and I feel extremely fortunate to have cozy memories of walking over to my grandma's house and letting the fragrance of fresh baked goods lea...

Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

The one cookie that almost everyone loves. Chocolate chip cookies are almost a comfort food to some. This recipe is the one I've been using since I got married and well that is almost 25 years. A tried and true recipe that all my guys love. Chocolate...

Best Oatmeal Cookies

Mother never made cookies. This was not deprivation! Daddy, who worked for a cookie bakery, brought cookies home all the time. And, often new kinds for us to "try out!" So, I learned to bake cookies myself right along with my own kids. Actually, I'...

Bar Cookies 

Bar Cookies are made by preparing a dough and putting it in a pan, usually a rectangular one. Then the dough is baked and cut into squares. Many drop cookies can also be done as bar cookies. These can be amongst the easiest cookies to create because you put all the dough in one pan.

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Classic Shortbread Cookies for Holiday Gift Giving

Scottish Shortbread cookies are a classic! They are easy to make, have only three ingredients, and there are many variations. Shortbread cookies are wonderful for serving at your holiday meals. These shortbread cookies are perfect for gift giving bec...

Congo Squares - A Tate Family Bar Cookie Tradition

I can almost smell the congo sqares in the oven. In 1954, the Tate family lived in Pendleton, SC. We loved to gather round and "lick the bowl" while they baked! Mama always made congo squares for church picnics, long trips in the car to visit relativ...

Molded Cookies 

You form molded cookies with your hands into shapes like crescents, wreaths and balls and the balls are sometimes flattened using the bottom of a glass.

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The Best-Ever Ginger Crinkles Molasses Cookie Recipe

This recipe for ginger crinkles is definitely a favorite in my house.  It is one which we associate with the holidays although there is nothing to keep you from devouring these cookies all year around. It is an extremely easy recipe with all of t...

Peanut Butter Cookies

The peanut butter cookie has to be in the top ten in terms of popularity for "favorite cookie". I know it's one of mine and it's definitely one of the husband's. If you love peanut butter cookies, then you've come to the right place. Get your cookie...

Sugar Cookie Recipe

Sugar Cookie Recipe Try out these great tasting sugar cookies. This recipe for sugar cookies will make up to 5 dozen of the best tasting sugar cookies ever! This Sugar Cookie Recipe is easy to make and kids and adults will love them as Christmas cook...

Melting Moments Cookie Recipe

This is one of my favorite cookie recipes. I received the recipe years ago from a coworker and just recently found it again when I was organizing my recipe files. Is is interesting because one of the ingredients is cornstarch which you do not typical...

Butterball Cookie Recipe

Every year I make cookies around the holidays to give away to friends and family and this recipe is one of my staples. My mom and I made these together when I was a child and they remain one of my favorites today.

Rose's Christmas Cookies, A Beautiful Cookie Cookbook 

Packed with amazing cookie recipes, this book is also delicious to look at.

Rose's Christmas Cookies, A Rose Levy Beranbaum Cookbook

Rose's Christmas Cookies is a beautiful and popular cookie cookbook by author Rose Levy Beranbaum suitable for experienced bakers and inexperienced bakers who are looking to expand their baking skills. It presents sixty amazing recipes for C...

Until The Bake Off, Store Your Cookies in a Cookie Jar 

I love them all ~~ the Lenox gingerbread house cookie jar, the Tuscan biscuit jar, the Pfaltzgraff Winterberry bird house cookie jar and even the diner-style cookie jar.

Pfaltzgraff Winterberry Cardinal Birdhouse Cookie Jar

The Pfaltzgraff Winterberry Cardinal Birdhouse Cookie Jar is a good gift choice if you have a cookie jar collector to buy for this Christmas.  It is a great gift for anyone who likes to bake cookies.  If they are already collecting the Pfal...

Tuscan Christmas Cookie Jar

This a a gorgeous Tuscan style biscuit jar showing a red poinsettia with snowflakes.  It is made of hand painted ceramic and measures 7.5" x 7.5" by 11".   Do you have a cookie jar collector on your Christmas list? ...

The Lenox Gingerbread House Cookie Jar

For gingerbread fans everywhere, Lenox presents a beautiful Gingerbread House cookie jar. This lovely 10.5 inch biscuit jar is hand-painted Lenox Ivory China which has been decorated with 24K gold and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Shaped...

Christmas Cookie Jar

Christmas Cookies abound this time of year - store them in these wild and fantastic Cookie Jars! Tons to choose from and they're so eye catching that they'll be a delight to everyone that wanders through your kitchen this year. Take the time to peru...

Children's Cookie Books 

Including The Gingerbread Boy; Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons; and, Christmas Cookies: Bite Size Holiday Lessons PLUS a great children's playset from Melissa & Doug.

The Gingerbread Boy, A Children's Book By Paul Galdone

Paul Galdone's The Gingerbread Boy was a favorite of my boys when they were growing up. This gingerbread boy runs "as fast as he can" to avoid all of the characters in this book including the bakers, the farm animals, the threshers and...

Christmas Cookies: Bite Size Holiday Lessons, A Children's Book Review

Beautifully put together, Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons was written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Jane Dyer. It is the perfect addition to your holiday library and will allow you to introduce your young children to vocabul...

Melissa and Doug Slice and Bake Cookie Set

The Melissa and Doug Slice and Bake Cookie Set is a wonderful idea which features 12 wooden, sliceable cookies that store in a dough tube.  These cookies are perfect for creative play, enriching your child's imagination.  Manufactured b...

Treasures By Brenda's Kitchen and Its Tools, Gadgets & Cookbooks 

Foodies will enjoy poking around and seeing what tools I use and recommend in my kitchen.

Treasures By Brenda's Kitchen and Its Tools, Gadgets & Cookbooks

Almost twenty years of preparing mostly healthy and nutritious meals and an occasional treat make me, I think, fairly knowledgeable in my field.  "What field," you ask?  "Why the world of the kitchen and its paraphanelia...