Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (gluten-free)

pb choc oatmeal cookies

Tonight, after two days of shoveling snow, I decided to reward myself with a small batch of cookies.  Of course, I didn’t want to blow my whole diet or eat something terribly unhealthy, so I tossed together this easy gluten-free cookie recipe.  It ended out making 10 cookies, using a 2 tbs size scoop.  With [...]

Green Tea Swirl Cookies {Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap}

green tea swirl cookies

I participated in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap this year.  It was a fun project.  Each participant was given three bloggers to send a dozen cookies to, and three different bloggers also sent them cookies. It was top secret Santa stuff. Since all the participants are food bloggers, I wanted to do something a [...]

White Chocolate Strawberry Biscotti Recipe

White Chocolate Strawberry Biscotti Recipe

This White Chocolate Strawberry Biscotti Recipe is now among my favorite cookie recipes. The dough smells like heaven before it even makes it into the oven, and the cookies don’t disappoint when they come out either. These biscotti go nicely with most teas, as well as coffee and of course milk. If you are looking [...]

How Cookies Kicked Santa Out of the House (and I want to send you a Christmas Card!)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies

For me, cookies are quintessentially Christmas. I have so many holiday memories involving cookies in one way or another, from baking them with my mother as a child, to baking large batches of sugary goodness to fill holiday tins as gifts, back when I worked outside the home. Many years ago, my family had one [...]

Diva Bats: Halloween Cookies

diva bats cookies

Need a Halloween treat for the ladies (or some little divas), these black sparkle bat cookies should do the trick (or should I say treat). I had originally planned to make these cute little skeleton cookies I found on Cooking Light, but the bittersweet chocolate cookie dough was a little crumbly & my gingerbread man [...]

Whole Wheat Maple Graham Crackers

whole wheat maple graham crackers

Yes, I just said Whole Wheat Maple Graham Crackers, and for the few of you out there that realize the redundancy of that title, I heartily apologize. I case you are scratching your head about now (which admittedly I would have been not so long ago), graham is a coarsely ground whole wheat flour, hence [...]

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chunks

flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

Flourless peanut butter cookies, yes, you heard me right, no flour of any kind in these peanut butter cookies.  A couple weeks ago,  Trisha from Mom Dot posted a recipe for Reeses Peanut Butter Cookies.  The thing that really caught my attention (besides the yummy looking cookie picture), was that these cookies contained no flour, [...]

Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

blueberry oatmeal breakfast cookies

These Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies are a nice mildly sweet way to start your day.  The only grain in them is oat, so many gluten intolerant people can have them, and these breakfast cookies are packed with soluble fiber.  I used coconut oil and almond milk in them so they are dairy free, and raw [...]

Munchy Crunchy Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

gluten free peanut butter cookies

This gluten free peanut butter cookie recipe, was originally not going to be cookies at all, nor was it going to have peanut butter even in it, but when I get the mixer going, sometimes strange things occur, like blueberry muffins becoming sidetracked into peanut butter cookies.  It was always meant to be gluten free [...]

Biscotti Dessert Cups: Bite Size Treats with Italian Flair

biscotti cups

Biscotti Dessert Cups are a versatile little dessert filling containers, that are perfect for entertaining.  The cups are sturdy, so easy picked up by guests and the size is small so whether someone just wants a bite, or is in the mood for a full sweet fix they are readily accommodated.  The almond biscotti flavor [...]