Triple chocolate chip cookies

Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lately, I’ve been making a bunch of chocolate chip cookie variations.  The latest, are my triple chocolate chip cookies.  It’s “triple chocolate” because it has dark cocoa powder, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and milk chocolate chips.  If you don’t have (or want to buy) two different kinds of chocolate chips, you can just use all one [...]

Maple Bacon Cookies

Maple Bacon Cookies

Last week I had a cookie craving and figured it would be a great time to try some variations on the standard chocolate chip cookie recipe that I always make.  ”Maple Bacon” flavor seems to be all the rage these days… and I usually have bacon crumbles in the refrigerator, as well as maple extract [...]

Pecan Sandies Cookies (Vanillekipferl)

Pecan Sandies

Here’s one of my favorite winter time cookie recipes… Pecan Sandies!  Also known by some as Austrian “Vanillekipferl”, ”Russian tea cakes”, or “Mexican Wedding cookies”… these are a wonderfully rich nut-based shortbread cookie, coated with a generous layer of powdered sugar.  These cookies are really nice to serve with a cup of hot tea.  It’s easy [...]

Mika’s Cooked Egg Yolk Butter Cookie Recipe

Egg Yolk Butter Cookies

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with baking.  Even in elementary school, if I saw a recipe that looked interesting, I would copy it down (with pen and paper – no iPhone to snap pictures back then!) and save it to try later.  I remember one of those moments, when I was in [...]

Mika’s Chewy and Fudgy Nutella Brownies

Nutella Brownies

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk online (mainly on pinterest) about “2 ingredient nutella brownies“.  In theory, it seems seem easy and great… but in reality… they were just ok (to me).  I made them in the hopes that they were as good as they hype… but I was disappointed in the end [...]

Cake Batter Fudge aka “Birthday Cake Fudge” (No bake recipe, made with boxed cake mix)

cake batter fudge1

In my free time, I like to go through the “food & drink” section of Pinterest, and drool all over the delicious looking photos.  Making the rounds around Pinterest… I’ve seen several links for versions of “Cake Batter Fudge”.  After seeing the pictures of Cake Batter Fudge over and over… I couldn’t take it anymore, [...]

Cake Mix Cookies (Black Forest Cookies)

cake mix cookies

Every once in awhile, we all need that EASY and QUICK go-to recipe for a dessert!  While nothing can beat the taste of homemade cookies (made from scratch with real butter)… sometimes boxed mixes can be a real time-saver when we need something fast and homemade-tasting!  Convert that box of cake mix from your pantry [...]

Spritz Butter Cookies (How to use a cookie press to make Spritzgebäck)

Spritz Butter Cookies (Spritzgebäck)

It’s time for the Holiday season!  With Thanksgiving over, and Christmas coming up… that means Christmas cookies!!!  (Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it just means COOKIE TIME!!!)  It’s time to start baking!  :) Spritz cookies are always a favorite to put in mixed cookie platters… they also make a wonder buttery cookie to bring [...]

Baking 101: The basics of baking (Tips for successful baking)

Baking 101:  Tips for successful baking

When I was learning how to bake, I made A LOT of mistakes.  Neither of my parents had ever baked anything… and I had no one to show me the right way to do things.  So I just did things… a lot… over and over until I got it right.  In the process, I have [...]

What to do with leftover cake or cake crumbs

10 things to do with leftover cake crumbs

Awhile back, I spent the day trying to figure out the Starbucks Lemon Pound Cake recipe.  After baking three loaves in a row, making changes here and there… I think I came pretty close.  The first loaf… was just ok.  The second… better, but still not exactly what I wanted.  The third… score!  That was [...]