Posted in Parenting, baking, cookies, gifts, humor, kids, tagged Bainbridge Island, baking, baking cookies, business gifts, chocolate chip cookies, Christmas, Christmas gifts, cookie, cookie gifts, cookies, desserts, family, fun, gift, gift ideas, holiday gifts, holidays, humor, mom advice, mom words of wisdom, retail, retail shop, Seattle, shopping on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This minor (not so minor in my life) holiday celebrates the glory of the cookie. Get at least one cookie consumption on your schedule and partake of this celebration of the cookie. Imagine life without them. Not very yummy.
Your Taste Buds Schedule
8:00 AM
Breakfast – The oatmeal raisin cookie has fruit and grain. The healthy [...]
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Posted in Parenting, baking, kids, tagged mom advice, mom words of wisdom, Parenting, family, fun, kids, Bainbridge Island, charity, event planning, how to raise great kids, desserts, baking, helping others, Helpline House, soup kitchen, corn bread, volunteer, volunteering, fund raiser on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The sun is shining and it looks like Bainbridge Island and the Puget Sound area are going to be enjoying a spectacularly lovely Memorial Day weekend. I’m starting it off on a great note by hosting at my cookie shop a Corn Bread Baking Party for a dozen volunteers. Our busy busy hands, mixing bowls [...]
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Posted in Parenting, cookies, gifts, humor, kids, tagged cookies, mom advice, mom words of wisdom, Parenting, fun, Bainbridge Island, retail shop, charity, gift, event planning, chocolate chip cookies, desserts, baking cookies, baking, helping others, Seattle, Helpline House, sell gold jewelry, gold, jewelry, Blue Heron Jewelry, philantrophy, donations, gold party, Victor Alexandery Winery, wine, wine party on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I had a gold party at my cookie shop. About 2 dozen people showed up with their baggies of tangled gold chains, lonely earrings that didn’t have a partner, and out of style pieces. A local jeweler, Blue Heron Jewelry, set up their tools of the trade and weighed and valued everyone’s gold [...]
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Posted in Parenting, baking, cookies, humor, kids, tagged Bainbridge Island, baking, baking cookies, cakespy, chocolate chip cookies, contest, cookie, cookie gifts, cookies, crisp chewy yum soft warm undercooked underbaked butter salt crunchy milk dough nuts cakey brown sugar moist gooey, desserts, family, fun, humor, mom advice, mom words of wisdom, retail, retail shop, Seattle, shopping on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Recently, www.cakespy.com was having one of their regular giveaways with the lucky winner receiving a My Kids’ Cookies gift box. The question to be answered to enter the contest was “What, in your opinion, makes up the ideal chocolate chip cookie?”
There were quite a few opinions provided so get yourself a cookie and a [...]
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Posted in baking, cake, cookies, cupcakes, tagged Bainbridge Island, baking, baking cookies, chocolate chip cookies, cookie, cookie gifts, cookies, cupcakes, desserts, family, fun, kids, mom advice, mom words of wisdom, Rolo candies on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you love both these sweets, try them together. They’re easy:
1) Start with your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.
2) Fill each muffin tin with about a tablespoon of dough.
3) Bake for about half the recipe time and remove from the oven.
4) Push a Rolo candy into the center so the tops are even and finish [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, baking cookies, chocolate chip cookies, cookie, cookies, desserts, Ruth Wakefield, The Toll House Inn, Tollhouse cookies, Whitman Mas, Whitman Massachusetts on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following was found at www.sallys-place.com. Truly, I am thankful for Ruth Wakefield’s creation every day.
The Chocolate Chip Cookie: An American Icon
by Stephanie Zonis
Can you imagine an era before chocolate chip cookies existed? Do you really want to? Yet this all-American goodie was a relatively late arrival on this country’s food scene.
As usual, I’ll start [...]
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This is a total indulgence dessert.
Use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and layer a cream cheese filling between.
For the cream cheese filling: 1 – 8oz. package cream cheese (softened), 1/2 c. sugar, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1 egg.
Cream together until smooth.
Mix up your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. Spread 1/2 into an 8” or 9” [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bread, breads, desserts, home baked, homemade bread, pumpkin, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie, thanksgiving, thanksgiving desserts on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A great recipe for pumpkin bread and muffins for Thanksgiving weekend – Enjoy!
3 cups sugar
1 cup corn oil
4 eggs
2 cups canned pumpkin
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup water
1 rounded teaspoon each of: baking powder, nutmeg, cinammon, allspice
2 rounded teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 rounded teaspoons salt
1/2 rounded teaspoon cloves
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, oil, eggs [...]
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