Category Archives: cookies

Chewy Triple Ginger Cookies

By Ali | Published: December 13, 2012

This holiday season, I decided to take part in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. I thought it would be a fun way for me to get into the holiday spirit and try some new, yummy cookies. It was pretty awesome, I have to say. I had fun baking and eating many, many cookies. It [...]

Rosewater Meringues

By Ali | Published: January 27, 2012

Sorry for being MIA this week! I’ve been really caught up with work and buying a house!!! It isn’t actually ours yet, but we are hoping it is soon…we are going through the post-inspection negotiating. More details on that later. For now, I want to share a really light sweet treat. If you are anything [...]

Holiday Confections: in progress…

By Ali | Published: December 18, 2011

I know you are just dyyyying to know the progress of the holiday baking going on here. So here it is… So far: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies White Chocolate Cranberry Blondies Chewy Ginger Cookies Chocolate-Cinnamon Chip Snickerdoodles Peppermint Hot Chocolate based on this recipe Marshmallows for the hot chocolate Still to go: Plain Hot Chocolate [...]

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Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

By Ali | Published: November 22, 2011

In my mission to make at least 10 dishes featuring pumpkin this fall, I was in search of a pillow-y, cake-y cookie with a nice pumpkin spice flavor. I looked at almost 20 recipes before finding and settling on this one, I should have known Martha would be on it! To be honest, it was [...]

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Jack o’ Lantern in a Jar!

By Ali | Published: October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween everyone!! This is totally one of my favorite holidays, mostly due to the fact that I have an October birthday and Halloween was always the theme of my parties growing up. So I suppose that is the sentimental reason for my love. The other reasons would be: the awesome fall weather that happens [...]

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Chocolate-Butterscotch Snickerdoodles

By Ali | Published: October 18, 2011

Sounds yummy, right? Well they really are…I mean I like a cookie as much as the next girl, but normally I’m not sooo thrilled by anything other than a good chocolate chip or sugar cookie…but these are sort of genius. When I woke up in the morning to find this recipe in my inbox from Jessica [...]

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Wedding Shower Eats

By Ali | Published: October 2, 2011

Remember last week when I was baking for a wedding shower?? Well, good….it went off without a hitch last Saturday and I think that the bride felt very showered with love by her friends and family! We had a great time planning it for sure. It was everything a wedding shower should be - fun, girly, [...]

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Parisian Macarons with Strawberry Buttercream

By Ali | Published: September 10, 2011

I have fallen in love with Meg Ray’s new cookbook “Miette” and all of the darling and delicious confections she presents within the pages. Meg is a lover of all things pretty and sweet and happens to be a self-taught baker who owns a boutique bakery in San Francisco. If I could have any life [...]

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Chocolate chip cookie heaven

By Ali | Published: March 22, 2011

Now I would go to blows with anyone who disputed my love of these cookies…let me tell you why they are so great: 1. they are ooey-gooey, huge and the perfect consistency – not too cakey but not too crunchy 2. Matt makes them, not me Everyone who has tried them requests more, and normally [...]

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Be mine, Valentine

By Ali | Published: February 15, 2011

So this was the greatest, yet simplest and most relaxing Valentine’s Day ever. The hubby and I both worked until 7 and just had a nice dinner together, that wasn’t rushed. I tidied up the apartment, lit all the candles, put on my favorite jazz music (the fantastic Sean Jones) and started cooking away. The [...]