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Spritz Cookies with Browned Butter and Chinese Five Spice

September 5, 2017 By Laura 14 Comments

Spritz Cookies with Browned Butter, Chinese 5 Spice and Apple Brandy!

Spritz Cookies with Browned Butter and Chinese Five Spice are unique, autumnal and delicious–and perfect for a bake sale inspired by #CookiesforKidsCancer. I received some tools from OXO for the purpose of reviewing them and promoting Cookies for Kids Cancer. Because I already own their fabulous cookie press, I have given it away to a… 

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Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes: #CookiesForKidsCancer

October 29, 2015 By Laura 15 Comments

Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes: a creme de menthe cake with mini chocolate chips is topped with a whipped cream buttercream and truly outdoes the ice cream!

Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes are an uncanny and delicious cupcake evocation of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and because they are made with whipped cream buttercream, they are not at all too sweet. This post is in support of Cookies For Kids Cancer, and as such I did receive some baking equipment from OXO as… 

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Piped Vanilla Spritz Cookies: OXO Cookie Press & #CookiesForKidsCancer

September 23, 2014 By Laura 3 Comments

Simple recipe for piping Vanilla Spritz Cookies--great basic recipe to flavor to taste

Piped Vanilla Spritz Cookies are easy, fun and delicious; the OXO Cookie Press, which I received for the purposes of a review and to help promote #CookiesForKidsCancer, is simple to work and comes with loads of fun shapes to press out. Affiliate links have been used to like to items I am discussing in this… 

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Maple Doodles: #CookiesForKidsCancer

September 14, 2013 By Laura 6 Comments

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is an organization I have been supporting since I first became aware of it. You can read more about my discovering them and what they do here, but basically I became aware of them through OXO, as OXO is one of their big supporters and I work with OXO Blogger Outreach. Anyway,… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, cookies, cooks' tools, kids cooking, maple, reviews, Tools Tagged With: #CookiesForKidsCancer, #OXOGoodBrownie #OXOGoodCookie, cinnamon, cookies, Cookies for Kids' Cancer, maple, snickerdoodles

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies from #CookiesForKidsCancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook

January 18, 2012 By Laura 7 Comments

Last month I wrote about Cookies for Kids’ Cancer and the excellent work that they do.  While doing the research for that post, I discovered they had a cookbook, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook.  It doesn’t take much to convince me to buy a cookie cookbook, and seeing as this one was… 

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Filed Under: chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookbooks, cookies, oats, reviews Tagged With: #CookiesForKidsCancer, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookbook review, cookies, oatmeal, oats

Be A Good Cookie! Meringue Cookie Flavors for the Holidays and Cookies for Kids’ Cancer

December 13, 2011 By Laura 14 Comments

I had a very hard time writing this post.  Striking the right tone seems important, yet it is eluding me.

Filed Under: chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, coffee desserts, cookies, cooks' tools, dairy free baking, eggs, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, meringue, mint chocolate, misc, Uncategorized Tagged With: #CookiesForKidsCancer, blogger outreach, cancer, chocolate chips, coffee, cookies, Cookies for Kids' Cancer, Holidays, meringues, mint chocolate, OXO, peppermint, spatula

Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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