St Patrick’s Day is looming, that day when everything gets drenched in green. Going the non-alcoholic route this year I decided to break out my cookie cutters and see what I could come up with. We start with some shamrocks of course. Then add some leprechaun hats and pots o’ gold for you to find at the end [...]

Still coming up with ways to use up eggnog that doesn’t involve drinking it! Plus I had some new cutters that I was just dying to try out *grins* My sugar cookie recipe uses a good amount of liquid, in the summer I usually use some lemon or lime juice but there was no reason [...]

I’ll be honest, I am very unfamiliar with Girl Scout cookies. My colleagues at work go crazy over them (particularly the Thin Mints) when it’s that time of year again. I am also incredibly unfamiliar with bundt cakes, my only introduction to them prior to moving to the states was in the film, My Big [...]

That time of year that calls for the mass genocide of that little bug called a crawfish is almost at an end. I’m going to leave the boil details to the Southern boy but I couldn’t let the event pass without making a little something. When we were buying king cake babies earlier in the [...]

I’m fairly certain I’ve mentioned my love of all things gingerbread flavoured before.. Apparently I mention it a lot at home as one of my Christmas presents this year was this fantastic book dedicated to gingerbread! It was hard to narrow down what I wanted to make from it first but we finally settled on [...]

Yes, we’re still with the Halloween goodies, get used to it, we’ve got at least another week of Halloween themed treats. I know, I know, any good blogger would have planned ahead and made them before the holidays so they could go up early and provide you lovely readers with inspiration.. Well, I never said [...]

When I moved to Texas Michael introduced me to a family recipe.. a very addictive family recipe. French Vanilla Ribbon Cookies. And boy do people go crazy for them. A simple sugar cookie dough, with a few secret additions, but there is something magical about them, even just the dough, that means that you can’t [...]