Go big or go home! This big cookie is a copycat of the original chocolate chip cookie offered at Hardee’s, and is enjoyed best with a friend and a tall glass of milk! Way back in 1993, my mom, Missy was a newlywed. To help pay the bills, she worked at the local Hardee’s fast-food restaurant. She is one of the hardest workers I know, so I don’t doubt she put in long hours working at Hardee’s. Being on your feet all day…
Can’t get enough of those crunchy chocolate-covered malt balls? Then these cookies are for you! With melty chocolate chips and crunchy Whoppers nestled in the perfect buttery cookie dough, these cookies pack a punch of flavor! These Whoppers Chocolate Chip Cookies are to die for! It’s hard to improve on the irresistible malt crunch of a Whopper, but when you add melty chocolate chips and the perfectly baked cookie…
This recipe is locked and loaded with our favorite ammo; chocolate and peanut butter. Loaded with plenty of peanut butter chips and chocolate candies, this Loaded Peanut Butter Cookie is ready to be fired into your mouth! Peanut butter cookies are a classic. You almost can’t go wrong with them, especially if you use my Peanut Butter Cookie recipe. I’ve made countless batches of peanut butter cookies and they are always…
This is not your average oatmeal cookie. Loaded with tender, wholesome oats and fragrant butterscotch chips, these butterscotch oatmeal cookies are the perfect treat for anytime of day from morning to night! These Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies are truly something special. They seem unassuming and simple, but from the moment they start baking, your mouth will start watering. The smell coming from the oven is simply irresistible! You won’t want to leave…
This melt-in-your-mouth dough cradles delicious bites of macadamia nuts and white chocolate. You’ll be craving these White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies even if you’re a milk or dark chocolate person! If I had to pick one chocolate to eat for the rest of my life, I’d probably pick milk chocolate. But I’d make an exception for these cookies! Sweet white chocolate pairs perfectly with the salty macadamia nuts. Macadamia…
This Aztec Wonder is a fudgy, rich chocolate cookie with the perfect amount of cinnamon and cayenne. Chocolate and spice come together in the most superb way you never knew you needed in a cookie. It’s the perfect chocolate cayenne cookie! This Aztec Wonder Cookie is one of my original cookie shop recipes. It came about on a day when I wondered why there was such a trend to add cayenne pepper to anything chocolate. I…
This Coconut Lemon Crackle Cookie is buttery, moist, and full of flavor. With real lemon zest and sweetened coconut flakes, this cookie is sweet, lemony, and has that chewy texture you crave in a crackle cookie. This Coconut Lemon Crackle Cookie’s life began in the cookie shop. As business picked up, so did our inventory and cookie variety as we worked to meet the desires of customers with seasonal offerings. My shop…
Toasted pecans folded into crisp, buttery shortbread cookies with vanilla and hints of maple make for a divine pecan shortbread! A handful of my cookie ideas come directly from childhood memories, and this pecan shortbread is one of them. I grew up in a household with seven siblings. During the warm summers, we loved to go on picnics. I still think my mom was a genius to get us out of the house and let nature pick up the…
Walnut, three types of melty chocolate chips, and your patiently waiting self. You “walnut” regret making these perfect, buttery chocolate chip cookies. I wanted a really great chocolate chip walnut cookie recipe. I started with my #1 Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, made some minor adjustments, and knew I was headed in the right direction. With three types of melty chocolate chips and toasted walnuts, how can you go wrong…
Just when you thought all your luck ran out when trying to make soft, crispy butter shortbread cookies, Missy saves the day! Some of the most difficult things to perfect in baking are: a really good chocolate chip cookie, a good loaf of white bread, a tender pie crust, a flavorful vanilla cake, and a simple shortbread cookie. These basic flavors and textures are important to get right because they are so familiar to the…
Thin, crispy chocolate shortbread dipped in chocolate. It’s a total showstopper with minimal effort. These Easy Crisp Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread cookies are light, perfectly crisp, easy to make, and look beautiful too. Melted chocolate is the trick to making perfectly crisp shortbread without the chalky mouthfeel that cornstarch gives. It helps to lighten the crunchiness of shortbread, turning it into a melt-in-the-mouth…
Move over chocolate-covered strawberries. There’s a new sheriff… I mean cookie in town! Amish Country in Lancaster, PA is not far from where I live. They have a variety of stores with a great selection of all sorts of foods. As I was perusing the bulk foods section of one such store, I came across some dried strawberries that were a beautiful, bright red instead of the normal dark brown. I bought a container on a whim and…