Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Alternate Title: “Use Good Cocoa Powder”
These cookies came to be because I wanted something sweet, something easy to bake and something with chocolate. I knew that if I was going to make a chocolate cookie, I wanted to use white chocolate to offset the color, as well as complement the flavor.

Beh. That’s all I have [...]

Snickerdoodle Dandy

If you’ve never had a snickerdoodle, you don’t know what you’re missing.  And if you think it’s just a gussied up sugar cookie, you’d be wrong, wrong, wrong.  It has so much more flavor and depth than that. These cookies are cinnamony and soft and delicious. 

MC’s teachers know how much I love to bake and I’ve [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

Thanks to the 11 of you who voted in my poll. I ended up making a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake that turned out fabulous. I even did something I probably shouldn’t have done and used a new-to-me Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It’s out of a cookbook I’ve had for almost two years now [...]

Deluxe Strawberry Cheese Pie

Remember when I professed my love for strawberries? Well, I’ve found another use for them. Fresh strawberries on top of a cheese pie.
I’ve been looking for something to make and somehow incorporate fresh strawberries.  I didn’t want to make any type of cake, I’d already made a cookie and I didn’t want to make a sauce.  I [...]

Fresh Blueberry Sauce

Fresh Blueberry Sauce
Yield: approximately 1 cup
Adapted from Joy of cooking
Printable Recipe
Ingredients:
½ cup water
½ cup sugar
1 ½ cups blueberries
Pinch of cinnamon
Zest of 1 lemon
Directions:
Bring water and sugar to a boil.
Add blueberries, cinnamon and lemon zest.
Simmer on medium-low heat for approximately 10 minutes, until sauce has thickened.

Serve on top of some fluffy blueberry pancakes!