So I set out to make 24 different cookies this Christmas. I made 23 which was not the goal but a valiant effort. I did learn a lot from my efforts.

Some of the cookies I made were already family recipes (Lemon Raspberry Sandwich [more]

You should eat more graham crackers. They are whole wheat and contain honey so they are healthy, right? Well maybe not healthy but these homemade graham crackers will steer you away from all those grocery store graham crackers with unpronounceable ingredients (yes even chemists know those chemicals [more]

Today I wanted to make a non-traditional oatmeal cookie. Not that I do not enjoy an oatmeal raisin cookie, I just wanted something a little different. I have also been thinking of molasses. I love using molasses. It has such a great flavor, but it seems to have fallen out of favor recently. As much as I love [more]

Cookies are awesome. Cookies with alcohol are better. Only one thing can improve a cookie with alcohol, can you guess what it is? It’s OK I’ll wait… Exactly! BACON. Bacon makes everything better… except for bacon, but that’s a mathematical argument about infinite series that I’m not equipped for today. [more]

As the holidays approach while there are still a few hard cookies I’d like to make, sometimes it becomes necessary to make an easy batch because of all the other holiday events going on. Today is one of those days. I spent the day running around shopping for my family’s Velija supper (traditional Slovak [more]