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Low Fat Cake Mix Cookies!

The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book by Camilla V. Saulsbury not only contains yummy recipes for holidays, bake sales and snacking but it also contains recipes that are healthy! Who does not love a healthy cookie? Until recently I never thought the two words could be used together. The author, Camilla V. Saulsbury may be the winner of The Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown Best Cookie Recipe, but she is also a fitness expert. Cookie and fitness are a remarkable combination. The entire book is not based on low fat or healthy recipes but it does contain about 13 cookie … Continue reading →

Christmas Cookie Scrapbook

Now I’ve seen everything. Yesterday I popped into my local scrapbook supply store to pick up an extra pack of holiday-themed stickers for a layout I am creating to display my daughter’s school Christmas concert photos, but what to my wondering eyes should appear: a Christmas cookie scrapbook. I’m not sure I would have believed it unless I saw it with my own two eyes. Sitting in the middle of the display table was a pimped out Christmas recipe scrapbook filled exclusively with amazing photos of the most divine cookies known to man and directions on how to make them … Continue reading →

Rocky Road Mud Cookies

Consider me a fan of anything that includes both milk chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Putting both into any type of dessert always yields a more richer and more complex flavor. In fact, here’s a little tip: if you add both semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips to your chocolate chip cookies. . .they’ll be doubly delicious. Just add half of each (as opposed to double the amount of chocolate called for.) In any case, these are a great snack to warm up your home on a cold winter’s day. I’m fairly sure I heard them calling for hot chocolate when … Continue reading →

Strawberry Shortcake – Heirloom Recipes

One of our favorite family desserts is Strawberry Shortcake. We make it the old-fashioned way. The cakes actually look more like biscuits, and are truly just sweetened biscuit dough. I love knowing that my great grandmother made this same dessert for her family, and maybe she even had it as a child. I love that by eating this yummy dessert, we are passing on family heritage. And I love teaching my children to make a family recipe. Someday, maybe, they will tell their children that their great-great grandmother made this for her family. Here are some interesting facts about strawberries … Continue reading →

Yummy Butterscotch Chip Cookies

My husband baked us some cookies last night. The fact that he wanted to make home-made cookies was a shock to me, but he wanted those cookies so badly that we made an impromptu shop at the grocery store just to get butterscotch chips. He used a good Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, but instead of using the chocolate chips, he used butterscotch chips. And boy are those cookies good! The Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe in itself is a winner. Now with the butterscotch chips it’s a whole other cookie recipe that’s equally as good. I know you will love it … Continue reading →

Host a Christmas Cookie Exchange!

Have you ever been invited to a Christmas cookie exchange? Some people just call it a cookie swap, but whatever you call it, it’s a cool concept. You meet with others and bring along your favorite cookie recipe, enough ingredients to make several batches, and any utensils and pans you need. Then, everyone bakes a set number of cookies and trades with each other. You’ll have a good time baking, chatting, and laughing together. When you leave, you’ll be armed with an assortment of wonderful homemade Christmas cookies. You not only have a nice variety without all the trouble, but … Continue reading →

Today I’m Cheating

Today I am cheating. I am taking a little more wiggle room than Jell-O would allow yet I am cheating the system more so than on my diet. Today, I am going to have my cake and eat it too. Sometimes you just have to do that. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the changing leaves changing colors. I love the mild chill in the air. I long to sit on my porch and drink pumpkin spiced coffee and eat a pumpkin muffin. All October I am all about pumpkin spice. So far this year the only … Continue reading →

Abandon the Pumpkin Pie: Peanut Caramel Apple Crisp

In my “Abandon the Pumpkin Pie” series, I’ve been offering up desserts that are different from your traditional pumpkin pie. This particular dessert will likely remind you of peanut covered caramel apples. Super yummy and super easy, this is a great dessert to impress your holiday guests! You will need: 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups packed brown sugar 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 1 cup light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup chopped roasted peanuts 10 Gala apples – peeled, cored and sliced 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup white sugar … Continue reading →

Spicy Orange Sole

I admit that we don’t eat a lot of fish. I had horrible childhood experiences with trying to de-bone endless amounts of trout (because if you live near the Rocky Mountains–that’s what you get is trout) and frankly, I think it spoiled me on the whole eating fish thing. Every time I look at fish in the grocery store, I think of hours of de-boning, gutting and dumping pails of fish heads. However, as I get older and begin to seek healthier ways to cook for my family, I am more and more interested in eating fish. The problem is … Continue reading →

The Families Cookbook Winter ’06 Oats to Oregano

I’m introducing a new feature here at families.com. Have you ever wanted to find a recipe based on an ingredient you have on hand? If so, you’ve likely encountered the same problem I have when looking at the categories to the right–there are simply too many recipes to find what you’re looking for. So I created these cookbooks so that you could easily search for your ingredient and easily find all the wonderful recipes here at families.com! (Check back periodically; this is a work in progress!) Note: Kitchen staples are not categorized. You will not find flour, sugar, salt, pepper, … Continue reading →