Flourless Fudge Cookies

These flourless chocolaty cookies get their texture from egg whites, and their flavor from the cocoa powder. Use a gluten-free vanilla extract, and you've got a gluten-free cookie! These are easy and quick to make and bake ...

... and since you're only using the egg whites in this recipes, be sure to set aside the egg yolks for Poppy Seed Jam Cookies, or Danish Butter Cookies, or Cream Cheese Cookies

Poppy Seed Jam Cookies

I'm kind of laughing here, ummmm ... so I wouldn't be making or eating these if you have a drug test coming up. And yes, drug testing is really sensitive enough to give a false positive result for opiates for up to 48 hours after eating a delicious poppy seeded bagel. So I'm just thinking I'd take it easy on a bunch of these cookies. But that being said, this is a delicious sweet crunchy treat. You can use my preferred jam, raspberry or boysenberry, or your own favorite jam filling.

Save the egg whites to use with these delicious recipes -  Flourless Fudge Cookies or The Forgotten Cookies.

Sarah Bernhardt Cookies

These Danish pastries are incredibly delicious. In 1883, the famous French actress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sarah Bernhardt, went to Copenhagen and fell in love with these cookies. Because the Danes have a long tradition of naming pastries after people and events, they renamed these chocolaty pieces of heaven after the French actress.

I found this recipe in a Martha Stewart cookbook years ago. And although the ingredients are still the same, I have added a little to the instructions so its a bit more comprehensible. This recipe is not for the cook who is looking for easy. The instructions are meant to be staged. Do not multi-task with this recipe and all will be well. As with all chocolate recipes, the quality of chocolate is important. For serious cooking, I generally use a Merchens or Callebaut chocolate, but hey, if Nestle is all you have around, don't be shy with using it because it will work too. Some have had to do this recipe a few times to get the hang of it, but I was successful the first time, so it can be done. I just put on some good music and took it slowly.

Although these take much concentration and a while to do, they are definitely worth every bite of the finished product. To describe it is difficult - all I can really say with any real accuracy is that it melts in your mouth. It is a dipped dark chocolate cookie; a crispy macaroon with a mound of heavenly chocolate truffle. All the angels sing when they bite into this!

Banana Drop Cookies

A tasty way to use up those ripe bananas! This recipe has a little of everything in it ...

Cheesy Dog Cookies

I was always a cat person. I love all my cats I've had throughout my lifetime, and, I still have cats. But somewhere, much to their distress, I adopted a four-legged friend who went hiking with me. Who licked my nose. Who climbed, as gently as a hundred pound canine could climb, into bed with me. And then I adopted another. An adorable silly lab.  

And yes, I do silly things too. Like make them their own cookies. And even though they both are close to 100 pounds each, they actually like these little treats the most. Tasty stuff!

So here's a dog cookie bound to be a hit with your little puppies. Or big puppies,, whichever you might have ...

Orange Slice Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

M&M's Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

S-mores Bar Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

Crunchy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

Chocolate Raisin Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

Peanut Butter Cookie Mix

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

Cookie Gifts In A Jar

Make these fun Cookie Gifts In A Jar for your family and friends this year. Easy to do, inexpensive and thoughtful taste-of-home gifts. These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a hit with everyone!

Peanut Butter Cookie Mix
Chocolate Raisin Cookie Mix
Crunchy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Mix
S'More Bar Cookie Mix
M&M's Cookie Mix
White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookie Mix
Orange Slice Cookie Mix

Chocolate and Peppermint Whoopie Pies

Chocolate and Peppermint. Want a better combination? Make it a whoopie pie, and you've got another winner ...

Sweet Potato and Maple Whoopie Pies

Remember the Whoopie Pie? Historians say that Amish women would bake these and put them in the children's lunchbags. When children would find the treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!" But no matter their origin, they are yummy, fun and satisfying. 

 There are a ton of recipes out there right now, and a pan for baking them in. Here's one to start you off with for the holidays.

Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits

When my son was young, he had a paper route. He made friends with all of the animals on that route, and many of them would follow him around for a block or two. One sunny Saturday morning a day after a snowstorm, he was late coming home. I was worried, and about to get in the car to go find him ... Sleepy and smiling, he walked through the door. It seems he had sat down on the ground with a furry four-legged friend to pet him for awhile, and they both fell asleep ... dog's head in his lap, and my son propped up against the house. He ended up with that route for almost 4 years and every Christmas he took that dog a treat for the holidays.

Your favorite canine will be so happy with these to munch on! Or give them away at Christmas time for a four-legged friend or two ...

Flourless Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

I grew up in a diabetic family, and frequently have to go back myself to a lower carb diet. So I have to say I saw this recipe this morning, looked at the ingredients, and said to myself "yep, I think those will work!" But a warning, I haven't tried this recipe at all yet, so if anybody tries it, could you let us know how it works out with the taste?

For all those who have to watch their sugar or carb intake, here's a cookie to help those cravings for something freshly baked ... 

Danish Butter Cookies

My mom's friend was Thelma. Thelma was from the UK and had a wonderful British accent, even though she had lived in the States for quite awhile. As a young child, I was intrigued by her accent, and, drinking hot tea with cream and sugar. After all, my mama was Southern and all I knew was how to drink cold sweet tea! I learned to enjoy that cup of hot tea with a butter cookie whenever we went to go visit. Now, I have to ask, who doesn't love a simple butter cookie?

Pennekamp's Peanut Butter Treats

Back in the 60's, my mom worked as a cook for Pennekamp Elementary School in Southern California. Back then, cooks really cooked from scratch for the school kids, every day, and served it all up in their little white dresses and white caps ... This no-bake cookie recipe came from those days at that school. This recipe puts a smile on my face every time just because I remember her in the little white unifrom dress that they all wore ...

The Forgotten Cookies

Traditionally, my mom always made these cookies on the same day as we made Cream Cheese Cookies. I always thought she was so traditional, but when I got older I realized that it was based on practical application. The simple reason she did it that way was because we always had leftover egg whites to use up from the Cream Cheese Cookie recipe! Crackly and not overly sweet, the chocolate chips and nuts always made my mouth water for more. So easy to do with the kids ...

Breakfast Cookies

This Breakfast Cookie is just in time for that morning mad dash out the door to do some Christmas shopping. Or the "Gads, I'm late to work!" day. Or for the "teen-who-hasn't-time-to-eat' school day ... It's a big chunky cookie filled with fiber and healthy ingredients. Add some yogurt or just some juice, and you'll be filled for hours -

Cream Cheese Cookies

This rolled Cream Cheese Cookie recipe is a traditional Christmas favorite of our family. Kind of a shortbread cookie with a twist. I am always misplacing it, and have had to ask someone in the family for it every Christmas ... for let's say ... oh ... 20 years, or so. Sorry family!!

I do have to say, I have tried to find this recipe on the Internet, and have been unsuccessful. I've scoured through all kinds of cookbooks along the way (so I don't have to admit to family that, once again I have misplaced it ...), but no success, although I've found some great "other" recipes while I "researched". So with that thought, I want to say this is a family original cookie recipe, and I am proud to share it with you.

Chocolate Crinkles

As I'm listening to Christmas music and watching the twinkling of the lights on my tree, I'm reminded of these Chocolate Crinkles that my mom made long before you could find the recipe on the Internet and in bakeries.

I would watch as she added four or five cookies on the plate of assorted treats she gave to neighbors, friends and family, sometimes sliding my hand to grab one and run into another room to savor that chocolaty taste. Even now, it takes me back to my childhood home and the image of our silver sparkling Christmas tree with red bulbs and red bows.

From my family to yours, enjoy this snowy chocolaty cookie wonderland. Bring out the cookies and some hot chocolate, listen to Christmas music and watch the lights dance around ...