The third most-requested cookie recipe from y'all last week was cut-out sugar cookies. I shared this recipe last year, and I'm so happy to share it again because I happen to think it's the cutest recipe on this site. I may be biased, but I'm also right.Today is a perfect day to stay home and … [Read more...]
1 Dozen Snickerdoodles
I recently relinquished a bit of control in the kitchen. I handed over the reins to Mr. Dessert For Two to make homemade ice cream. I gave him a copy of the best ice cream cookbook in the world and lugged the ice cream maker up from the basement.You see, I live with the ice cream monster. … [Read more...]
Lemon Meltaways
Let the record show that I, Christina Dessertfortwo (legal name-change pending), am a huge fan of cookies that are baked and then rolled in sugar. Cookies: full of sugar, check. Cookies rolled in sugar? Double check. Make that double chin.These cookies are soft and tender, and yeah, they … [Read more...]
1 Dozen Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookies are the hardest dessert to scale down to size. Between trying to halve eggs and butter that melts and spreads too much without exactly the right amount of flour to hold it together, it takes months of recipe testing to achieve a cookie that doesn’t taste like you monkeyed around with the … [Read more...]
1 Dozen Spicy Chocolate Cookies
Y'all know that Tex-Mex food is a cuisine in a league all its own, right? It’s not some fusion of half Texas food and half Mexican food stirred together. Tex-Mex food includes favorites like tortilla soup, carne guisada, refried beans, crispy tacos, cheese enchiladas with chili gravy, migas and … [Read more...]
1 Dozen Cowboy Cookies
I hope there’s only one cowboy in your life because this recipe only makes 1 dozen. I did not create this recipe from scratch. I simply took former first lady Laura Bush’s recipe and halved it. If these cookies are good enough for the President, they’re good enough for me. I had the privilege of … [Read more...]
