Baking & Desserts
- Mrs. Fields to File For Bankruptcy
- Apple Crisp & Peach Crisp Recipes
- Zucchini Breads Are a Big Favorite
- Fresh Peach Pie Recipe Is a Hit!
- Peach Dessert Recipes for Summer
- Blueberry Pie Recipe & Berries
- Refreshing Summer Fruit Desserts
- Food Gawker vs. TasteSpotting
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- Sweety Pies Book Review
Mrs. Fields to File For Bankruptcy
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
What's this world coming to when one of the biggest names in chain store cookies, Mrs Fields plans to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection?
Is Mrs Fields in Trouble?
You know something isn't quite right with the world when Mrs Fields files for chapter 11.
Bankruptcy is never a good thing, especially when it happens to America's cookie sweetheart Debbi Fields.
According to a post written by the New York Times on August 15, 2008, "Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, the private-equity-backed cookie retailer, said on Friday that it planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help restructure its business, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing."
USA Today.com says, "The company, which licenses and franchises about 1,200 Mrs. Fields Cookies and TCBY frozen yogurt locations worldwide, has begun soliciting votes from creditors for a "prepackaged" bankruptcy reorganization plan.
Apparently, Mrs Fields has felt the same pinch the poor economy has hurt us with too. What is everyone supposed to do now? The malls will never be the same if her cookies crumble! Is the company going under or will it be able to resurface stronger than ever?
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, I'll just stay busy baking my own chocolate chip cookies!
You know something isn't quite right with the world when Mrs Fields files for chapter 11.
Bankruptcy is never a good thing, especially when it happens to America's cookie sweetheart Debbi Fields.
According to a post written by the New York Times on August 15, 2008, "Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, the private-equity-backed cookie retailer, said on Friday that it planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help restructure its business, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing."
USA Today.com says, "The company, which licenses and franchises about 1,200 Mrs. Fields Cookies and TCBY frozen yogurt locations worldwide, has begun soliciting votes from creditors for a "prepackaged" bankruptcy reorganization plan.
Apparently, Mrs Fields has felt the same pinch the poor economy has hurt us with too. What is everyone supposed to do now? The malls will never be the same if her cookies crumble! Is the company going under or will it be able to resurface stronger than ever?
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, I'll just stay busy baking my own chocolate chip cookies!
Apple Crisp & Peach Crisp Recipes
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Peach crisp and apple crisp are great summer desserts with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream. Easy to make seasonal fruit desserts!
Summer desserts like apple crisp and peach crisp are simple desserts to make and so delicious to eat.
Peach Crisp Recipe
Tis the season for peaches! And what better way to use them than to make a fresh Peach Crisp! Georgia peaches aren't the only peaches on the tree! Wherever you buy them, don't forget the vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream for the grand finale!
Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches
Be sure to read Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches before you make this crisp. It has a lot of tips that could save you time, like how to peel peaches and how many peaches are in a pound. Make sure you choose the right peach for your crisp. Freestone peaches are best because the skin and pit can be easily removed.
Apple Crisp Recipe
We made this recipe for years in the bakery. Everyone said it was the best. I guess so, considering how many orders we had week after week. My mother-in-law and an elderly neighbor would sit together, chatting away with cases of apples between them. Each case had 110 Granny Smith apples in the box! Our wholesale orders would climb during the weekends and we'd have to order in about 8 cases in order to fulfill all the orders. This included apple pies as well.
Peeling Apples
Because they were both set in their ways, neither of them would use the handy-dandy apple peeler we bought. Instead, they used paring knives to peel, core and slice every one of those cases. You do the math! That's 880 apples! By the time they were done, they had all the world's problems solved and their hands were stained green and their fingers all cramped! Silly women!
Peach Crisp Recipe
Tis the season for peaches! And what better way to use them than to make a fresh Peach Crisp! Georgia peaches aren't the only peaches on the tree! Wherever you buy them, don't forget the vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream for the grand finale!
Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches
Be sure to read Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches before you make this crisp. It has a lot of tips that could save you time, like how to peel peaches and how many peaches are in a pound. Make sure you choose the right peach for your crisp. Freestone peaches are best because the skin and pit can be easily removed.
Apple Crisp Recipe
We made this recipe for years in the bakery. Everyone said it was the best. I guess so, considering how many orders we had week after week. My mother-in-law and an elderly neighbor would sit together, chatting away with cases of apples between them. Each case had 110 Granny Smith apples in the box! Our wholesale orders would climb during the weekends and we'd have to order in about 8 cases in order to fulfill all the orders. This included apple pies as well.
Peeling Apples
Because they were both set in their ways, neither of them would use the handy-dandy apple peeler we bought. Instead, they used paring knives to peel, core and slice every one of those cases. You do the math! That's 880 apples! By the time they were done, they had all the world's problems solved and their hands were stained green and their fingers all cramped! Silly women!
Zucchini Breads Are a Big Favorite
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Zucchini bread recipes made with fresh grated zucchini, cinnamon and walnuts are classic summer quick breads. Make extra zucchini nut breads and freeze the rest!
The dog days of summer are here and this classic zucchini nut bread recipe is one that the whole family will enjoy!
Zucchini Bread Recipe
This recipe that has been in my family for years. I started making this when the kids were little and now my kids are making it for their kids! When we opened the bakery, we knew this Zucchini Bread Recipe would be on the menu. We made it in very large batches, wrapped them in cellophane bags and put a label on them. They were a big hit!
King Arthur Flour
I think the reason it was so good, was because we didn't skimp on ingredients. We used King Arthur unbleached flour, unrefined sugar, quality pecans or walnuts, delicious chocolate chips and free range chicken eggs if we could lay our hands on them...get it? I felt good supporting King Arthur Flour because they were local. They're located in Norwich Vermont, not too far from where we lived! More on them in another post!
Zucchini, Zucchini, Zucchini!
It all started years ago when I planted some zucchini. Not just some zucchini, but 12 plants! Do you have any idea how much one zucchini plant produces, let alone 12? At first it was exciting. Look, my first zucchini! Then I had 3 or 4 get big enough to pick, until the heavens opened up and I was deluged with zucchini! I had zucchini ripening all at once and I had to do something with them. And that's how the Best Zucchini Bread in the world was invented!
So, now that I've tempted you beyond your control, you'll just have to try my zucchini bread recipe. Take my advice and add some nuts or better yet, nuts and chocolate chips. You're gonna love it!
Zucchini Bread Recipe
This recipe that has been in my family for years. I started making this when the kids were little and now my kids are making it for their kids! When we opened the bakery, we knew this Zucchini Bread Recipe would be on the menu. We made it in very large batches, wrapped them in cellophane bags and put a label on them. They were a big hit!
King Arthur Flour
I think the reason it was so good, was because we didn't skimp on ingredients. We used King Arthur unbleached flour, unrefined sugar, quality pecans or walnuts, delicious chocolate chips and free range chicken eggs if we could lay our hands on them...get it? I felt good supporting King Arthur Flour because they were local. They're located in Norwich Vermont, not too far from where we lived! More on them in another post!
Zucchini, Zucchini, Zucchini!
It all started years ago when I planted some zucchini. Not just some zucchini, but 12 plants! Do you have any idea how much one zucchini plant produces, let alone 12? At first it was exciting. Look, my first zucchini! Then I had 3 or 4 get big enough to pick, until the heavens opened up and I was deluged with zucchini! I had zucchini ripening all at once and I had to do something with them. And that's how the Best Zucchini Bread in the world was invented!
So, now that I've tempted you beyond your control, you'll just have to try my zucchini bread recipe. Take my advice and add some nuts or better yet, nuts and chocolate chips. You're gonna love it!
Fresh Peach Pie Recipe Is a Hit!
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Fresh Peaches bubbling away in a flaky pie crust, topped with ice cream. Peach Crisp and Peach Cobbler recipes round out this Peach Desserts topic.
Fresh Peach Pie Recipe has by far been the biggest hit here. It's a great way to use up all those fresh peaches you picked at the orchard. Fill the Best Pie Crust with ripe sunkissed peaches, some spices and sugar and bake it all up in a pretty stoneware pie pan. Top it off with some ice cream and you can't get any better than this!
Peach Cobbler Recipe came in second place. It's an extremely easy recipe with just a few ingredients. Very popular with, you guessed it, ice cream!
Peach Crisp Recipe came in third place, probably because people think of it as a fall dessert, like apple crisp. But don't wait until fall to try this lovely peach dessert during the summer when peaches are at their best.
Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches is a must read before cranking up your oven and making these peach desserts. Lots of hints and useful info.
Try them all this summer. I'm sure you'll love each and every one!
Peach Cobbler Recipe came in second place. It's an extremely easy recipe with just a few ingredients. Very popular with, you guessed it, ice cream!
Peach Crisp Recipe came in third place, probably because people think of it as a fall dessert, like apple crisp. But don't wait until fall to try this lovely peach dessert during the summer when peaches are at their best.
Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches is a must read before cranking up your oven and making these peach desserts. Lots of hints and useful info.
Try them all this summer. I'm sure you'll love each and every one!
Peach Dessert Recipes for Summer
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Peach pie recipe made with fresh peaches, peach crisp & peach cobbler for summer peach desserts. Take advantage of Mother Nature's bounty. Make some today!
It's been a real peachy month for me! July and August always seem to bring out the fruit desserts and fuzzy peaches are no exception! Last month I was on a blueberry kick and then a pie kick. But this month, you'll just have to put up with my peach desserts!
Make sure to read through Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches before you start out on these recipes. There's lots of useful information there to help you decide which to use - fresh, frozen or canned peaches.
Peach Pie Made with Fresh Peaches: Like most of my recipes, this one was inspired by my Grandmother, Doris. You can make it with either fresh or frozen peaches too. Just be sure to read the directions first. I like it with a touch of cinnamon in it and a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Peach Crisp Made with Fresh Peaches: Apple crisp was always a favorite in my home, but I usually reserved apple desserts for the fall. Peach Crisp, well, that's another story! It's made almost the same way with the exception of a few different spices. It's good nice and warm with, you guessed it, another scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Peach Cobbler Made with Fresh Peaches: Grandma also made all sorts of cobblers. Her strawberry rhubarb cobbler was favored by most of the family, not me, sorry! I remember her making Peach Cobbler a few times, and what I remember of it, was that it was good! Again, there is nothing better on Peach Cobbler than ice cream!
Here's some more good summer fruit dessert recipes for you:
Blueberry Pie Recipe made with Fresh Blueberries
Blueberry Crisp Recipe made with Fresh Blueberries
Make sure to read through Baking With Fresh, Frozen & Canned Peaches before you start out on these recipes. There's lots of useful information there to help you decide which to use - fresh, frozen or canned peaches.
Peach Pie Made with Fresh Peaches: Like most of my recipes, this one was inspired by my Grandmother, Doris. You can make it with either fresh or frozen peaches too. Just be sure to read the directions first. I like it with a touch of cinnamon in it and a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Peach Crisp Made with Fresh Peaches: Apple crisp was always a favorite in my home, but I usually reserved apple desserts for the fall. Peach Crisp, well, that's another story! It's made almost the same way with the exception of a few different spices. It's good nice and warm with, you guessed it, another scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Peach Cobbler Made with Fresh Peaches: Grandma also made all sorts of cobblers. Her strawberry rhubarb cobbler was favored by most of the family, not me, sorry! I remember her making Peach Cobbler a few times, and what I remember of it, was that it was good! Again, there is nothing better on Peach Cobbler than ice cream!
Here's some more good summer fruit dessert recipes for you:
Blueberry Pie Recipe made with Fresh Blueberries
Blueberry Crisp Recipe made with Fresh Blueberries
Blueberry Pie Recipe & Berries
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Recipes for cherry pie made with fresh cherries, fresh blueberry pie a la mode, strawberry shortcake & luscious blueberry crisp. Fresh berries ~ summertime desserts!
Antioxidant-Rich Fruits
The health benefits of antioxidant-rich fruits are undeniable. The news is all abuzz about how good they are for us. Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and cherries top the list according to Researchers at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Readers Digest.com. There are many more including vegetables that pack a punch when it comes to antioxidants.
Berry Season
It's berry season in my neck of the woods now. And if you love berries as much as I love berries, you'll love these berry desserts and baked goods I've hand-picked just for you!
Blueberry Pie Recipe & Cherry Pie Recipe
These recipes come directly from our former bakery. Customers waited patiently for the berries to ripen because they knew we'd be pumping out delicious Blueberry and Cherry Pies! We always used our #1 Best Flaky Pie Crust Recipe for all our pies. It's a no-fuss, easy-peasy pie crust. If I could teach my guys to make this crust, you can too!
Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
With homemade buttermilk biscuits and fresh whipped cream, who could resist the ever-popular Strawberry Shortcake? Use your imagination and vary the berries, combine 2 or 3 and make a special mixed berry shortcake! Buy the biscuits at your supermarket if you're pressed for time. Just make it. You know you want to!
Blueberry Crisp Recipe
Blueberry Crisp with all its oatmeal and brown sugar goodness will knock your socks off, especially if you add a scoop of you favorite ice cream!
Blueberry & Strawberry Muffins
Muffins are a breakfast favorite, but you can eat them anytime. Load them up with berries, fruit and nuts for a perfect power-packed fast-food snack! Try the Vegan Blueberry Muffins as well.
The health benefits of antioxidant-rich fruits are undeniable. The news is all abuzz about how good they are for us. Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and cherries top the list according to Researchers at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Readers Digest.com. There are many more including vegetables that pack a punch when it comes to antioxidants.
Berry Season
It's berry season in my neck of the woods now. And if you love berries as much as I love berries, you'll love these berry desserts and baked goods I've hand-picked just for you!
Blueberry Pie Recipe & Cherry Pie Recipe
These recipes come directly from our former bakery. Customers waited patiently for the berries to ripen because they knew we'd be pumping out delicious Blueberry and Cherry Pies! We always used our #1 Best Flaky Pie Crust Recipe for all our pies. It's a no-fuss, easy-peasy pie crust. If I could teach my guys to make this crust, you can too!
Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
With homemade buttermilk biscuits and fresh whipped cream, who could resist the ever-popular Strawberry Shortcake? Use your imagination and vary the berries, combine 2 or 3 and make a special mixed berry shortcake! Buy the biscuits at your supermarket if you're pressed for time. Just make it. You know you want to!
Blueberry Crisp Recipe
Blueberry Crisp with all its oatmeal and brown sugar goodness will knock your socks off, especially if you add a scoop of you favorite ice cream!
Blueberry & Strawberry Muffins
Muffins are a breakfast favorite, but you can eat them anytime. Load them up with berries, fruit and nuts for a perfect power-packed fast-food snack! Try the Vegan Blueberry Muffins as well.
Refreshing Summer Fruit Desserts
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Strawberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Shortcake & Blueberry Crisp are great refreshing desserts especially on a hot summer night! Take advantage of ripe summer berries!
Summer is the perfect time to take advantage of Mother Nature's gifts. Berries are cheap and plentiful right now in most parts of the US. Fruit desserts are refreshing and usually quick to whip together.
Strawberry Shortcake
What's better after a heavy barbecue meal than Strawberry Shortcake? This recipe is made with buttermilk biscuits and sweetened fresh whipped cream. Sometimes I make shortcake with a medley of fruits like strawberries, blueberries and fresh picked cherries. Cut open a buttermilk biscuit, lay on the fruit and top with whipped cream. Awesome and refreshing!
Blueberry Crisp
The blueberries are ripe where I live and the branches are groaning under their weight waiting to be picked and made into something luscious like Blueberry Crisp. Again, if you don't have all blueberries, add some cherries, peaches and what have you to the mix of fruit. While it's still warm, spoon it into a bowl and top it off with your favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream!
Strawberry Cheesecake
This is the ultimate summer fruit dessert! My Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe takes a bit more time to prepare and bake, but the ultra rich and creamy cheesecake is so totally worth it in the end! It sits on a graham cracker crust and topped with red ripe strawberries. If you don't have strawberries, top it with whatever fruit suits your fancy!
Blueberry & Strawberry Muffins
If you're not in the mood for something too sweet, whip up a quick batch of Blueberry or Strawberry Muffins! Vary the fruits and substitute peaches or raspberries. Pack one in your lunch tomorrow!
Take advantage of summer berries and make fruit desserts often. Enjoy your berry delicious summer!
Strawberry Shortcake
What's better after a heavy barbecue meal than Strawberry Shortcake? This recipe is made with buttermilk biscuits and sweetened fresh whipped cream. Sometimes I make shortcake with a medley of fruits like strawberries, blueberries and fresh picked cherries. Cut open a buttermilk biscuit, lay on the fruit and top with whipped cream. Awesome and refreshing!
Blueberry Crisp
The blueberries are ripe where I live and the branches are groaning under their weight waiting to be picked and made into something luscious like Blueberry Crisp. Again, if you don't have all blueberries, add some cherries, peaches and what have you to the mix of fruit. While it's still warm, spoon it into a bowl and top it off with your favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream!
Strawberry Cheesecake
This is the ultimate summer fruit dessert! My Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe takes a bit more time to prepare and bake, but the ultra rich and creamy cheesecake is so totally worth it in the end! It sits on a graham cracker crust and topped with red ripe strawberries. If you don't have strawberries, top it with whatever fruit suits your fancy!
Blueberry & Strawberry Muffins
If you're not in the mood for something too sweet, whip up a quick batch of Blueberry or Strawberry Muffins! Vary the fruits and substitute peaches or raspberries. Pack one in your lunch tomorrow!
Take advantage of summer berries and make fruit desserts often. Enjoy your berry delicious summer!
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Obsessed foodies have another outlet for their cravings. Taste Spotting closed its site after 18 months of being live online. Food Gawker has big shoes to fill.
No More TasteSpotting?
For whatever reason, the food porn site for obsessed foodies worldwide shut down their site last week due to legal complications. TasteSpotting left a huge void to fill. Bloggers were scrambling to get their fix, stats were plummeting and the online gourmet world as we knew it stopped and said a prayer for another to come to the plate.
Enter Food Gawker
A few days later, bloggers were going crazy submitting one photo after another to the new game in town - Food Gawker! I was going through withdrawal as well. I had to see what all the noise was about! YES! We have food porn again! I submitted a few blog url's and photos. Within 4 hours, I noticed my stats climbing again!
Sunday Night Dinner
Food Gawker isn't quite up to snuff yet. The home page is neat with columns of 3 photos across and 40 on a page. The main links bring the viewer directly to the featured blog, but there is no index to bring you to your own page of successful submissions. The creator of the site, Sunday Night Dinner says they're working on it. Good enough for me and about a million other crazy foodies!
They did spell out the rules rather quickly. Attribution is mandatory. Copyright violations will not be tolerated. No photo stealing. That's worth something today. Just this week, I was dealing with a potential copyright problem. It takes too much time to protect my work, but it has to be done because there are people out there that do steal content.
Anyway...millions of food porn addicts are sitting at their computers right now, staring into the screen, pressing the F5 key to refresh the page, waiting and waiting for the next food shot to come up! I'll be one of them!
For whatever reason, the food porn site for obsessed foodies worldwide shut down their site last week due to legal complications. TasteSpotting left a huge void to fill. Bloggers were scrambling to get their fix, stats were plummeting and the online gourmet world as we knew it stopped and said a prayer for another to come to the plate.
Enter Food Gawker
A few days later, bloggers were going crazy submitting one photo after another to the new game in town - Food Gawker! I was going through withdrawal as well. I had to see what all the noise was about! YES! We have food porn again! I submitted a few blog url's and photos. Within 4 hours, I noticed my stats climbing again!
Sunday Night Dinner
Food Gawker isn't quite up to snuff yet. The home page is neat with columns of 3 photos across and 40 on a page. The main links bring the viewer directly to the featured blog, but there is no index to bring you to your own page of successful submissions. The creator of the site, Sunday Night Dinner says they're working on it. Good enough for me and about a million other crazy foodies!
They did spell out the rules rather quickly. Attribution is mandatory. Copyright violations will not be tolerated. No photo stealing. That's worth something today. Just this week, I was dealing with a potential copyright problem. It takes too much time to protect my work, but it has to be done because there are people out there that do steal content.
Anyway...millions of food porn addicts are sitting at their computers right now, staring into the screen, pressing the F5 key to refresh the page, waiting and waiting for the next food shot to come up! I'll be one of them!
Posted by
Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Chocolate Chip Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies and Molasses Cookies are very easy cookies to bake. Old fashioned homemade cookies will keep the kid happy in all of us!
You'll probably notice that I've been focusing a lot of attention on homemade cookies lately. You're absolutely right, I have! No matter how old you are, milk and cookies bring out the kid in all of us.
Cookies!
Years ago, when we made cookies, we'd make really big batches. I mean BIG batches. Our mixer was a 30 quart Univex and it could plow through anything. No matter how stiff the cookie dough was, those beaters would just keep on mixing.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
The most requested cookie by far was for my Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe. Of course, we wouldn't give our secret recipes out back then, that would be plain foolish.
The second most sought after was the Best Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe in the world. My mom made them from a recipe my Grandma gave her years and years ago. I remember making these for my Dad when I was only 8! Over the years we had to tweak the recipe many times to get it to withstand customers squeezing the cookies in the supermarkets, but this recipe is the original Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe. Try it, I think you'll agree that it's your favorite too!
Soft Molasses Cookies was a close tie. These cookies came from my Grandma's recipe journal that I inherited. This recipe went through a major refit also. They're the ones you remember from childhood. The cookie dough was spicy with cinnamon, nutmeg and just the right amount of cloves. Then they were rolled into balls and dipped in sugar. They had the familiar cracks on the top which made them even more endearing.
So, make the kid in you happy and make a batch of each this week. You know you want to!
Cookies!
Years ago, when we made cookies, we'd make really big batches. I mean BIG batches. Our mixer was a 30 quart Univex and it could plow through anything. No matter how stiff the cookie dough was, those beaters would just keep on mixing.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
The most requested cookie by far was for my Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe. Of course, we wouldn't give our secret recipes out back then, that would be plain foolish.
The second most sought after was the Best Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe in the world. My mom made them from a recipe my Grandma gave her years and years ago. I remember making these for my Dad when I was only 8! Over the years we had to tweak the recipe many times to get it to withstand customers squeezing the cookies in the supermarkets, but this recipe is the original Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe. Try it, I think you'll agree that it's your favorite too!
Soft Molasses Cookies was a close tie. These cookies came from my Grandma's recipe journal that I inherited. This recipe went through a major refit also. They're the ones you remember from childhood. The cookie dough was spicy with cinnamon, nutmeg and just the right amount of cloves. Then they were rolled into balls and dipped in sugar. They had the familiar cracks on the top which made them even more endearing.
So, make the kid in you happy and make a batch of each this week. You know you want to!
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Donna Diegel
Donna Diegel
Pies, Pies & Sweety Pies! Over 70 old fashioned homemade pie recipes and personal anecdotes are packed into this wonderful cookbook. You'll be drooling the whole time!
This has been a busy week of baking and writing and writing and baking. For me, the two go hand-in-hand. I take photos as I bake - or cook - and keep a journal of each and every step. I then go back to the computer and format my thoughts, tweaking words and cropping pictures. In the end, I hope for a spectacular blog entry and/or article for my Baking & Desserts topic. This week was no different.
I started out by making a Peanut Butter Torte for my Tuesdays With Dorie baking group, which by the way, has grown to over 180 bakers! It came out wonderful, full of chocolate and peanut butter and Oreo cookies!
Last week, I guilted my kids into buying Mom a shiny new Cuisinart 9-speed hand mixer for Mother's Day. I put a post on my blog telling them what I really, really wanted, all in a Spice Girls kind of song-and-dance routine! They fell for it and now I'm the proud owner of a brand new brushed stainless baby! And let me tell you, this thing is powerful! I needed to make something with it ASAP! So, I made a Florida Pie (aka Key Lime) for TWD as well. Now, it's on to the whipped cream.
In the middle of all this, I had a delicious new cookbook to review called "Sweety Pies" by Patty Pinner. The article was way too long, so ended up being three tasty articles along with Patty's Flaky Pie Crust Recipe and a Peanut Butter Cream Pie that is out of this world! Try them and see if you don't agree!
Speaking of Peanut Butter, don't forget to try a batch of The Best Peanut Butter Cookies!
I started out by making a Peanut Butter Torte for my Tuesdays With Dorie baking group, which by the way, has grown to over 180 bakers! It came out wonderful, full of chocolate and peanut butter and Oreo cookies!
Last week, I guilted my kids into buying Mom a shiny new Cuisinart 9-speed hand mixer for Mother's Day. I put a post on my blog telling them what I really, really wanted, all in a Spice Girls kind of song-and-dance routine! They fell for it and now I'm the proud owner of a brand new brushed stainless baby! And let me tell you, this thing is powerful! I needed to make something with it ASAP! So, I made a Florida Pie (aka Key Lime) for TWD as well. Now, it's on to the whipped cream.
In the middle of all this, I had a delicious new cookbook to review called "Sweety Pies" by Patty Pinner. The article was way too long, so ended up being three tasty articles along with Patty's Flaky Pie Crust Recipe and a Peanut Butter Cream Pie that is out of this world! Try them and see if you don't agree!
Speaking of Peanut Butter, don't forget to try a batch of The Best Peanut Butter Cookies!
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