How To: Roll Out Pie Dough

How To: Roll Out Pie Dough

Creating delicious and good looking pies is possible! Follow along to roll out pie dough like a pro with these step-by-step instructions. Rolling out pie dough is so much easier than you might think, and with a little practice you’ll be creating beautiful, or darn 

Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie (Without Corn Syrup)

Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie (Without Corn Syrup)

This over-the-top chocolate bourbon pecan pie started as a Thanksgiving tradition for many years, until my mom started requesting it for her birthday dessert.  Her birthday is just a few days after Thanksgiving, so, often we make it twice in the span of two weeks!  

Chocolate Sugar Cut-Out Cookies

Chocolate Sugar Cut-Out Cookies

In addition to being beautiful, chocolate sugar cut-out cookies have a smooth, dense chocolate flavor and tender, melt-in-your mouth texture. Rolled and shaped with your favorite cookie cutter, and topped with a sparkle of sugar, they’re the perfect sugar cookies for every chocolate lover in 

Cardamom Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

Cardamom Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

Cardamom cookies with brown butter icing are fudgy bar cookies, topped with pecans and drizzled with brown butter frosting. So delicous & so easy! If you’ve never had cardamom before, you’re in for a real treat when you whip up these cardamom cookies with brown 

Cappuccino Flats (Chocolate-Dipped Mocha Cookies)

Cappuccino Flats (Chocolate-Dipped Mocha Cookies)

I realize adding a newbie cookie to the holiday line up is a risk.  Breaking traditions at Christmastime, especially this year, as we grasp for any sort of convention, is strictly forbidden. However, if you make one new cookie this year, I urge you to make 

Fresh Ginger Cookies

Fresh Ginger Cookies

Cinnamon, nutmeg, molasses and ginger…there’s just something in that combination that screams holiday cookie baking! There’s also something wonderful about a bakery-sized ginger cookie. They always feel more special, especially when they’re super-soft and chewy. These fresh ginger cookies are a must-try! My grandma Tina 

Thin & Crispy Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Thin & Crispy Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Chunks of dark chocolate, a delicate crisp texture, and rich, caramel flavor make these bakery-sized, ultra-thin chocolate chunk cookies irresistible! Every cookie plate must have a chocolate chip cookie.  Thin and crispy chocolate chunk cookies are chocolate-forward and extra special, perfect for the holidays or, let’s 

No-Chill Cinnamon-Sugar Cut-Out Cookies

No-Chill Cinnamon-Sugar Cut-Out Cookies

No chill time required for these cinnamon-sugar cut-out cookies! Just mix, cut & bake these delicious roll out cookies, made extra special with cinnamon and almond extract. No cookie plate is complete without a decorated cut-out cookie, like the ones we remember from our childhood.  These 

Swedish Tea Rings – Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Swedish Tea Rings – Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Swedish tea rings are classic thumbprint cookies.  They’re made with a thick base of buttery shortbread, rolled in pecans and crowned with a jewel of jam. These beauties are a must on any of our family cookie plates! This recipe originated from my mother’s paternal grandmother 

Christmas Cookie Gift Ideas

Christmas Cookie Gift Ideas

Diana’s Christmas Cookie Plate I noticed the arrival of Christmas trees shining through neighbor’s windows earlier than ever this year, as well as an unprecedented extravagance to outside Christmas light displays around town. There’s a definite longing for the joy and hope of the Christmas 

Cinnamon Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spice-Cream Cheese Frosting

Cinnamon Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spice-Cream Cheese Frosting

Fall cupcake recipe redo! Moist cinnamon cupcakes sit beneath a large kiss of pumpkin cream cheese frosting, spiced with more cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Dusted with cinnamon-sugar on top, cinnamon cupcakes with pumpkin spice-cream cheese frosting are as pretty as they are delicious! Looking for 

Fresh Peach Crumble Pie

Fresh Peach Crumble Pie

A summertime classic! Fresh peach crumble pie is made with layers of fresh peaches, scented with nutmeg and topped with a homemade brown sugar-pecan crumble. Served with fresh whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream! Last year, my mom probed me to dig