Sugar and Spice Snickerdoodles

Pumpkin Pie Spiced Snickerdoodles

I have always been a huge fan of  snickerdoodles. They are easy and just so delicious that they rarely last more than a day.  Snickerdoodles are the first cookie I learned to make as a child, so they have a special place in my heart. And as you know from previous stories I have shared with you all, I used to like to "play" around with recipes and change them up. It really shouldn't be much of a surprise that one of my first cookie recipes it one that has been changed and "updated" over the years. These are my favorite snickerdoodles!

Sticky Linzer Bars

A delicious disaster... 

Raspberry Jam-y!

Welcome Home Cookies Part #2

So the calamity of cookies continues. So a few days before dad's surgery I made another double batch of these delicious cookies. But I was in a hurry and tired  so mistakes were make, big mistakes. I used white sugar instead of brown sugar.  I didn't want to toss out all that butter and sugar so I continued on with the recipe (after a few choice words).  


So I baked the cookies and although they weren't what I was expecting (they were fluffy and cakey) but they were still yummy and I hate to toss out ingredients.  So I packed off a few to Courtney from Misadventures in Cooking and the rest were divided between work, friends and the overnight bag for the hospital.  Check out Courtney's post about me here!

Welcome Home Cookies: Part #1

Did you see the awesome post about me at FTLOB? Check it out here to learn something special about me and check out the giveaway. 

I am dedicating this post to the rocking Courtney from Misadventures in Cooking. She shares her cooking and baking triumphs and tribulations on her blog.  I need to share my cooking calamities more since they are not so few and far between lately. My family has certainly had our share of tribulations this week. My dad's surgery on Thursday was crazy, after an hour in surgery he had some blood pressure issues and they stopped surgery. He is fine and feeling good at home. The surgery is rescheduled for the end of May.


So I am so glad to be home. Moving sucks but I love my new place but with everything that has happened in the last 2 weeks, I haven't finished painting or hanging pictures. But it looks great and Sookie and I are feeling very at home. But the last few weeks have been a crazy mixed up calamity of events, starting with these cookies. 


These cookies were the first thing baked in my new apartment and oven. They turned out delicious and super  awesome despite the fact that I  bought the wrong kind of chocolate chips, I got bittersweet 60% dark chocolate baking chips. But after my momentary freak out (it was 11 pm, no way was I running to the store) I decided to change up the recipe. Instead of 1 1/2 cups of semi sweet chocolate chips I added 1 cup of white chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the bittersweet chocolate chips.  They turned out super yummy and the cookies didn't last 3 hours at work. LOL that is why I have no pictures of these freaking delicious cookies, so I used this picture from Martha Stewart. This was the first batch of cookies. Check out part #2 on Thursday. Enjoy!

Guest Blogger Rancher Mom from Rancher Mom's Realm and Taylor Ranch Goats

Hello from moving/unpacking land and 
happy Passover and Easter!

I am so excited to share my blog with Julie aka Rancher Mom. She is going to rock your world with these oh so yummy triple chocolate cookies. Yes, not one, or two, but three types of chocolate in one cookie.  

Please go visit Julie's awesome blogs, Rancher Mom's Realm and Taylor Ranch Goats! And share the same amazing blogger love, this gal is fall on the floor and pee your pants funny and she is such a cool blogger. I am so grateful that I get to share this 3x chocolate recipe and Julie's blogs with you. You are going to love Rancher Mom!

Homemade Chocolate Goodness

What is better at 10 pm than smelling warm chocolate. A warm, rich and deliciously fragrant chocolate cookie is in my oven and I am sure my neighbors mouths' are watering as we speak.  I am making one of my absolutely favorite cookies, the Oreo.