Pecan Snowball Cookies

It’s officially the holidays, and that means I get to make our favorite family cookie: Pecan Snowball Cookies.  These petite, snowy-white cookies are crunchy little nuggets of buttery pecan joy. Though there are many recipes for cookies that look like this one, but they are often bland tasting.  Years ago my mother in law shared…

Snickerdoodles

The Snickerdoodle is a humble cookie, possessing a homey magic all its own.  These cookies are soft, crinkly, sweet, and fragrant with cinnamon. Snickerdoodles are leavened with a combination of baking soda and cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate).  This combo provides fast rising at the beginning of baking, resulting in Snickerdoodle’s characteristic crinkles. Snickerdoodles 2…

Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

This is a soft, scrumptious sandwich cookie that I developed from my own chocolate drop cookie recipe.  The cookie is easy to prepare – a straight forward drop cookie.   The buttercream is a classic Swiss meringue buttercream recipe – silky smooth and less sweet than a powdered sugar frosting.  A great video tutorial is here. …