It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. That means it’s time to bake cookies! Instead of plain old sugar cookies, try these candy cake sugar cookies instead. Recipe and image courtesy of BHG.com.
Makes: 6 to 7 dozen, 2-inch or 4 dozen, 4-inch cookies
Prep: 30 minutes
Chill: 30 minutes
Bake: 7 minutes per batch
Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:

2/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 recipe Powdered Sugar Icing* and/or 1 recipe Creamy White Frosting (optional)
Creamy White Icing
Sanding sugar and/or small hard peppermint candies
Red food coloring (optional)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 …read more

Gingerbread is a holiday tradition for many families. McCormick offers three ways to use their recipe for gingerbread cookie dough. Your kids will love the gingerbread men. But if you are like me, you’ll adore the Gingerbread Whoopie Pies with Lemon Creme. Let’s start with the dough…
Gingerbread Cookie Dough
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Refrigerate: 4 hours
Ingredients:

3 cups flour
2 teaspoons McCormick Ground Ginger
1 teaspoon McCormick Ground Cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon McCormick Ground Nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg

Directions:

Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt in large bowl.
Beat butter and …read more

These cookies are very impressive. Though they might take a little longer to prepare than most, they are well worth the time. They look magnificent and taste even better!
When I made these shortbread cookies, I substituted vanilla extract for the almond extract (just because I didn’t have almond on hand). They turned out divine!
Prep: 40 min
Bake: 10 min per batch
Stand: 30 min
Ingredients

1/2 cup maraschino cherries, drained and finely chopped
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup cold butter
12 ounces white chocolate baking squares with cocoa butter, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 drops red food coloring (optional)
2 teaspoons shortening
White nonpareils and/or red …read more

Are you tired of the same old Christmas sugar cookies? This holiday season, expand your baking horizons with unique cookies recipes such as these yummy Berry-Sage Thumbprints. These cookies are easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Makes: about 60
Prep: 25 minutes
Bake: 10 minutes per batch
Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup yellow cornmeal
1-1/2 teaspoon dried sage, crushed
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon peel
1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup blackberry preserves

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. In a medium bowl combine flour, cornmeal, sage, …read more

Right now, Better Homes and Gardens is looking for your help in choosing America’s Favorite Better Homes and Gardens Cookie. You can select from some of the 25 most-requested cookie recipes of all time by voting on BHG.com. They will display the 10 finalists on November 20 and the bigger winner will be announced the week of December 7. (Voting closes December 3.)
Today, let’s take a look at one of their fabulous cookie recipes. The Red Velvet Whoopie Pies pair velvet cookies with a luscious cream cheese-based filling.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Prep: 45 minutes
Bake: 8 minutes per batch
Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose …read more

A friend and co-blogger here at Blisstree has a new book out. Marye shares fabulous recipes daily here at Baking Delights, in her spare time she wrote a  new book. Marye Audet agreed to answer a few of my questions about herself, and her new book Everything Cookies and Brownies.

How did you get started writing?
I had started a small food blog to share recipes with my oldest two children, who lived in other states. It allowed them to access family recipes easily. It was “discovered” and the rest is more or less history.
Who was the biggest influence on your baking …read more

February is American Heart Month. So this month at Robust Cooking, we’ll try to provide you with a variety of heart-healthy recipes.
One place that I found has a nice collection of heart-healthy recipes is FoodieView. Using their search engine and typing “heart healthy” you will find 130,000 recipes from all across the web.
FoodieView offers recipes, a restaurant guide, cookbook reviews, a blog and much more. It’s a great destination for finding everything from family recipes to a place to eat out.
One of my favorite heart-healthy recipes is this one for oatmeal raisin cookies. Sweetened with Splenda, these cookies are delicious …read more

With Christmas fast approaching, cookie recipes are being shared all around the world. Some of my favorite cookies that we had in our family growing up were cocoa drop cookies. These puffy, cakey cookies offer just the right amount of cocoa goodness. Not too chocolately at all… just right.
Ingredients

6 Tablespoons butter
1 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons cocoa
3 eggs
2 cups of sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 Tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions

Cream butter and then slowly beat in sugar and cocoa.
Add well beaten eggs and continue mixing.
Sift flour, salt and baking powder together then stir into the first mixture, alternating with …read more

I can’t even begin to describe how much I love warm, just out of the oven cookies. Chocolate chip, peanut butter and even the odd cinnamon raisin number are all favorites – depending on the time of year. Second only to a delightfully perfect cupcake…cookies are the perfect treat.
Considering how much I adore cookies, it should come as no surprise that I am especially picky when it comes down to deciding if a recipe makes the grade. In this case, I’m happy to say that the Cranberry Pumpkin Cookies fully delivered on the promise of “soft” and “cakelike“. They …read more