Baked Sunday Mornings: S Cookies

I decided to go rogue this week and make the S Cookies I missed on our last round. We were out of state that weekend for my aunt’s funeral. No one in this house is fans of popcorn balls, and doing sugar work wasn’t appealing to me this weekend. S Cookies it was. Here was…

Cake Slice Bakers: Shannon Bennett’s Lamingtons

So this was my first month with the group, and it’s been a busy one with a lot of changes happening! Anyways, I chose to make Shannon Bennett’s Lamingtons (even though I pretty much despise petit four type cakes, and this very much qualified!). The fact that I had everything in the house to make…

#CreativeCookieExchange Sunny Side Up Meringues

This is my first month of participating in the #CreativeCookieExchange, and as my fiancee pointed out- “Do you REALLY need another baking group?” But I couldn’t resist the freedom this group gives me. All of my other groups follow along a book, and everyone makes the same  two recipes of the month. #CreativeCookieExchange gives my…

TWD: Anzac Biscuits

In honor of ANZAC Day on April 25th, we made classic ANZAC Biscuits. ANZAC is an acronym for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. These cookies are an interesting combination of oats, coconut, butter, flour, sugar and Golden Syrup (cane sugar syrup). I only keep unsweetened coconut in the house, so I used that,…

Lemon Sugar Cookies

I’m just going to put it out there- I really don’t care for sugar cookies. At all. However, these cookies with the addition of lemon, are a different story.  I made these bite size- about half the size instructed in the book. I baked off only a dozen of the roughly 100 cookies. The rest…