This week thought we’d take a little break from the avalanche of red and green cookies to try out a festive little cookie that’s…purple. Yes, purple. These Iced Purple Sweet Potato Cookies are made with Stokes Purple Sweet Potatoes from Frieda’s Produce, and they’re frosted with icing that’s tinted purple with just a few drops […]
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
There are some pairs that just always go together – to the point where you can’t imagine one without the other: Spaghetti and meatballs. Bagels and cream cheese. And of course that old standby, peanut butter and jelly. Why are we thinking about pairs? Because for this month’s Netflix Stream Team, we’re talking Friendsgiving – […]
Blueberry-Banana Gingersnap S’Mores
Want to put a little “pop” into your holiday baking? Instead of traditional reds or greens, go for blue…as in blueberries. Even though we generally associate fresh blueberries with the summertime, you can actually find them year-round in the supermarket. From April through October, they’re grown in North America, and from November to March […]
Buddha’s Hand Lemon Drop Cookies
The Buddha’s Hand is beautiful, creepy, fascinating, and hauntingly fragrant. But once we’re finished looking at it and smelling it, we never quite know what to do with it. Whereas other novelty fruits get admired and then eaten, you won’t find many cookbooks that are overflowing with Buddha’s Hand recipes. A variety of citron, it […]
Pistachio-Oatmeal Anytime Cookies
“Mom, can I have a cookie?” – How many times have we heard that question? Sometimes we want to just say, “Sure, fine, have as many as you want.” And with these pistachio-oatmeal cookies, we’re OK with saying “yes.” The timing is perfect, because just this week we happen to be celebrating National Pistachio Day […]
Magical Jack Frost Cookies
The holiday season is rolling in, which means it’s both holiday cookie time and holiday movie time. So what better way to spend an afternoon than making… holiday movie cookies? Earlier this month we had a chance to catch a screening of Rise of the Guardians, the new Dreamworks family film that features a whole […]
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