American Sign Language fingerspelled cookies

Brilliant thinking: use a regular hand-shaped cookie cutter to make fingerspelled American Sign Language cookies. Find a cutter that has obvious fingers. Then, just before baking, fold the fingers over into the letter you need. Easy! I was not going to come up with this simple idea … ever. Thrilled that someone else did.

About holiday cookie kits

Yes, yes, you could plan to give Make Your Own Cookies cookies kits this holiday season. It’s a terrific idea, your children can put most cookie kits together while you supervise from the next room over, and you’re giving the gift of Something To Do. I do believe, however, that the people you give these [...]

Those home-made cookie ice cream bowls

I already have a whole bunch of muffin tins and therefore simply can not justify buying another from Wilton. (sigh) And I am entirely too capable of eating a whole bunch of regular cookies. What ever would I do with ice cream cookie bowls? Fill them with ice cream and eat them, of course. (grin) [...]

That Home Made Cookie Stamp

You know how you spent all afternoon baking cookie after lovin’ cookie for that person? (You have baked cookies before, yes? For someone else, yes? You didn’t just eat the cookie dough? I digress.) And you know how the first squeals from that person expressed amazement at being given a whole pile of cookies? And [...]

Chocolate Afghans

So you’re testing a robot to make cookies, and the recipe you choose is Chocolate Afghans? I would have picked jumbo blueberry muffins, because I’d want to see a robot hold a blueberry without squooshing it. And what exactly are Chocolate Afghans? Until I read that cooking robot’s description, I’d never heard of these cookies/biscuits [...]