Happy Eve of Christmas Eve, folks! How’s the holiday baking going? Are you buried in a pile of gingerbread men and cut-out cookies? If so, #jealous. TRUE or FALSE? There’s always room for one more Christmas treat. If you answered TRUE, you win! Yep, I’m squeezing one...
Springerle cookies. They taste like Christmas memories. With every bite, I am taken back to a purer time, given fleeting glimpses into the holidays of my childhood. The cold, stark white winters of South Bend, Indiana. Long walks around the lake on the Notre Dame campus, feeding...
THERE'S LESS THAN ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!! Can you even stand it?! I've got all kinds of prep left to do -- gift shopping and wrapping and baking and decorating, etc. etc. etc -- so I'm just stopping by to say Hi! and share my most...
Do you love the spicy bite of gingerbread men? Do you squeee!! at their cute little candy buttons and bowties, and dawww as you connect their tiny gingerman hands with dainty little gingerwoman hands because, they love each other (!!!)? Do you find yourself feeling guilty for biting off...
Full Disclosure: Today's post is sponsored by Nestle Toll House, but the following flood of warm and fuzzy words about their new DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels is all my own. I’m coming back at ya’ with another cookie recipe today. It feels a little out the...
Every year, for as long as I can remember, in the weeks leading up to Christmas my parents and I gather together, pull several large, dusty boxes down from the attic, and trim our tree with the hodgepodge of ornaments and knick knacks that we...
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!! I seriously can't believe it's already here. I know you're probably hearing that from all corners of the interwebs, but seriously 2013, where did you go? There were about a billion things I wanted to do before Christmas and like 2 of them...
I realized a couple weeks ago that I talk a lot about my love of disco dust but follow through very little on it with the recipes I post here. As I looked through my archives, it became clear that there are almost no recipes...
Hey there, y'all! Today I'm sharing a recipe from my friends over at Zappos! That's right, Zappos isn't just about keeping you looking good, they also appreciate a good cookie! (I knew I always liked them.) As part of Zappos.com's temporary delve into the cookie business, they...
Sometimes, life gives you chocolate cake. And sometimes that chocolate cake sticks to the pan. And then, sometimes that sticky chocolate cake crumbles into 170 million different pieces when you try to ever-so-gently wedge it out with your spatula. But don't cry over crumbled cake. When life gives you...