Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

These are one of the quickest cookies I make and I have no notion where I got the recipe, it was scribbled on a piece of paper. They are very peanut buttery, so… Continue reading →

Raspberry Oatmeal Bar

This is a really simple recipe which ends with a great cookie bar.  I usually make this with raspberry jam on one side and marmalade on the other to give a choice of… Continue reading →

Cranberry Jewelled Shortbread Cookies

These cranberry jewelled shortbread cookies were sent to me by a friend for making at Christmas, but we were moving so I didn’t get a chance to try them.  I made them today… Continue reading →

Shortbread Cookies

There is definitely something more-ish about shortbread.  This is a particularly light shortbread, made with icing sugar.  The recipe makes a lot of cookies, so I decided to cut the recipe in half… Continue reading →

Oatmeal Cookies

Now that we are back to working in the North, or at least Allan is working while I spend my days fulfilling my childhood dream of writing (and cooking!), I am also back… Continue reading →

No Bake Banana Cookies

“So, I’ll just chuck these out…” The words that caused me to rescue two slightly spotted bananas from my husband and hide them overnight while I looked for a new banana recipe that… Continue reading →

Witches Fingers

I had fully planned to make these yesterday, but the best laid plans and all that. So, while we are sitting waiting for the Trick or Treaters (first two arrived at 6:45 –… Continue reading →

Martha Stewart’s Thumbprint Cookies

To go with the spicy Tortilla Soup I was making this morning, I thought some cookies with a bit of fruitiness would be perfect.  I had heard of thumbprint cookies but had never tried… Continue reading →

Mom’s Coconut Cookies

For someone who declares that they don’t like coconut I am using a lot of it recently!  I credit that to A Boleyn and her magical coconut pie, https://happydomesticity.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/magic-coconut-pie/ She says that tastes… Continue reading →

Mom’s “Melting Moments” Cookies

These cookies are one of the first cookies I ever made by myself.  They were a recipe my Mom had written in blue ink on the yellow pages of her recipe book.  The… Continue reading →