Confession: sugar cookies aren’t my favorite cookie. Probably not even in the top 10. Why? Most of the time sugar cookies don’t taste like anything and then they are loaded up with sickly sweet icing. Most of the time it’s a “no” from me. But if you add in a bunch of spices and make the best royal icing in the history of royal icing recipes, then I can start to see the value of a sugar cookie.
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White. Chocolate. Cheesecake. MMMMMmmmmm.
I was in the grocery store picking up the last minute Christmas dinner items that I always forget. Usually how it works is that I don’t realize that I forgot something until Christmas day when everything is closed. But anyway, I was in the dairy aisle picking up some eggs when I saw that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was on sale. The good shit. So I add three packets to my cart and finished checking the things off my list. (I ended up forgetting the aluminum foil, if you’re curious)…
A few of you know that this blog isn’t really new. It started back in 2011 during the gap period after law school when I was desperately looking for a job. I didn’t plan much in the beginning. My only goal was to do something else during the day besides the soul-crushing process that is job-hunting in a terrible legal market. I was a girl with a small apartment kitchen, an iPhone 4 and a couple of kitchen towels from Target for “props”….
I had my first Double Biscoff cookie two years ago. My coworkers and I started hosting semi-regular baking events. Okay, so I think I might have been the ring leader, but no one was complaining 🙂 The idea was simple, everyone brings in their favorite dessert based on a theme. Think pies on Pi Day. That kind of thing. It was a fun office.
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Have you seen those beautiful cookie boxes that are popping up all over Instagram lately? I am smitten with the cookie box trend. Since “cookie baking season” is my second favorite baking season (first place is obviously Pie week at Thanksgiving) I whipped up a few cookie boxes to mail to friends and family that we won’t get to see this Holiday Season.
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