When I was a little girl, our holidays were consumed with cookie and candy-making. And let’s be real – there was no such thing as an easy English toffee recipe! My dad loved making peanut brittle. My mom, grandmother and…
Best Snickerdoodle Recipe
A couple of weeks ago, I was working from home on a Friday afternoon. I decided to break up the monotony by working on the best snickerdoodle recipe. (In case you haven’t noticed by my recipes, I’m the original cookie…
How to Use Royal Icing to Decorate Cookies
Last week I shared my favorite Christmas sugar cookies, along with a note about my how my favorite childhood memory included decorating cookies for Santa. This week I’m going to share how to use royal icing to decorate cookies because…
Christmas Sugar Cookies – Cookie Cutter Friendly!
Today would have been my dad’s birthday, which always brings up all kinds of fantastic childhood memories of celebrations and holidays. (My family did holidays really well when I was a child!) One of those favorite memories is making Christmas…
Thanksgiving Cookies
Many, many, many moons ago… before pinterest, before everyone had the internet, and before blogs, my mom dragged me to a cooking class with a woman named Mackie Bobo in Lubbock. In Mackie’s black and white recipe book she gave…
Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls – Set and Forget!
Last year, onmybirthday, we found ourselves in during Dallas’ own icemageddon… as in, it shut down the entire city for days. We kind of suck at ice here. Despite it being the worst birthday ever, in an attempt to get out of…
