Candies and Snacks · Cookies & Brownies

Perfect Scotcharoos: Chewy Every Time!

Have you made scotcharoos but they turned out like rocks? Overcooking will cause these wonderful chocolate and peanut butter rice krispie treats to become a rock-hard candy. Not necessarily a good thing, especially if you value your dental work! 🙂 Perfect Scotcharoos is a recipe I received from a co-worker’s wife several years ago, and… Continue reading Perfect Scotcharoos: Chewy Every Time!

Cookies & Brownies

100% Gluten-Free No-Bake Cookies

Do you follow a gluten-free diet? I have a student who has Celiac’s Disease, so she cannot have any gluten. Period. I developed these 100% Gluten-Free No-Bake Cookies as a replacement for my usual No-Bake Cookie Lab…and LOVED the flavor! Though I really love oatmeal, these Gluten-Free No-Bake Cookies are my new favorite no-bake cookie! 100%… Continue reading 100% Gluten-Free No-Bake Cookies

Cookies & Brownies · Other Desserts

Heath Brownie Bar Sundae: Heaven in a Bowl!

  This post is from my student, Jessica. As part of my Foods IV class’s final exam, students created their own recipes, complete with pictures and a compelling blog post. Here is Jessica’s project. I hope you enjoy her Heath Brownie Bar Sundae recipe! 🙂 It is very tasty and would be a fun summer… Continue reading Heath Brownie Bar Sundae: Heaven in a Bowl!

Cookies & Brownies

The Best Homemade Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Have you ever wanted to make a recipe so perfect that you made it six times in one week? No? Well, I tend to be a wee bit on the obsessive side… I wanted (needed) to create the best homemade Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe, ever. Peanut butter cookies have let me down in the past. After… Continue reading The Best Homemade Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Cookies & Brownies

Oatmeal Cut-Out Cookies with Coconut Glaze

I am blessed to come from a long line of great culinary artists! These ladies weren’t trained at Le Cordon Bleu, but I would place them among the best chefs in the world. 🙂 Between my grandmas and my mom, I have eaten a lot of great food in the last (almost) forty years! This… Continue reading Oatmeal Cut-Out Cookies with Coconut Glaze

Cookies & Brownies · Holiday Ideas

How To: Create Homemade Melted Snowman Cookies Fast!

Have you ever needed a homemade holiday treat in a hurry? As a working mom, I have a lot of guilt about not being able to attend my kids’ school parties or contribute the way I’d like. This year, my youngest asked me to volunteer to make the treats for his school Christmas party. His… Continue reading How To: Create Homemade Melted Snowman Cookies Fast!

Cookies & Brownies

Kathy’s Rich and Easy Brownies: From Scratch!

Rich and easy brownies…What could be better? If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you know that I am a stickler for things homemade. What you might not know is that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE chocolate. In my book, the darker the better. So when I came across this brownie recipe in an old church… Continue reading Kathy’s Rich and Easy Brownies: From Scratch!