Soup Belly

December 23rd, 2009 | Subscribe to comments | 6 comments

Thumbprint cookies are an easy and fun to make recipe.
Thumbprint Cookies (adapted from Simply Recipes) – makes 24
printable recipe
Ingredients:

1 cup of butter (2 sticks or 8 ounces), room temperature
1/2 cup of sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
2 cups of flour
1 cup of chopped nuts (optional)
3/4 cup of your favorite jam

Parchment paper

Directions:
1) [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Subscribe to comments | 3 comments

 
If you are feeling guilty about eating all those buttery, gut-busting holiday cookies, you can always try a healthier version of this chocolate chip cookie, baked with applesauce instead of the full stick or two of butter. It won’t have all that greasy goodness though, so beware. Rather, they are more chewy and cake-like, and [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Subscribe to comments | 6 comments

 
Here is my first batch of cookies I am posting. They are called brown edge wafers. Pretty self-explanatory. Buttery, crispy thin wafer cookies with a hint of orange, and a light drizzling of chocolate ganache. I will definitely be making more of these tomorrow. Since half the first batch has mysteriously disappeared…. 
Brown Edge Wafers (makes [...]

December 20th, 2009 | Subscribe to comments | 13 comments

 
 
Hope everyone’s safe and sound for the holidays and not stranded on some snowy highway somewhere. A few days ago, I flew across the country back home to a sweltering, balmy 8 degrees. If you’re afraid of leaving the house, like I am, and wearing 4 layers of clothes indoors, just start cooking. Or playing [...]