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Gingerbread Cookies

December 4, 2018
Gingerbread Cookies

Not sure what led to this cookie decorating itch, but I can’t seem to let it go. It started around Halloween when I attempted to decorate pumpkins and ghosts with royal icing. They came out great, but not fantastic. And then I dropped almost all of them before they dried! I needed to redeem myself for Christmas. And what cookie screams Christmas more than gingerbread cookies? After watching many YouTube…

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Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

December 20, 2012

What’s more American than a Chocolate Chip Cookie?  How about a Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie on Christmas? The chocolate chip cookie was a delicious accident.  It was discovered in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield, in Whitman, Massachusetts.  Owner of the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant that always supplied a good home cooked meal.  Ruth’s cookbook, published in 1936, featured a recipe called “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie,” and soon…

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