
Last weekend we all drove to my parents’ house for a visit and also to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday.

I have a backlog of recipes and photos waiting to make their appearance on The Sweetest Kitchen. You can see photos of what’s in the queue in the sidebar, under My Food Photos. Today I’m posting about Surprise Cookies, which is a recipe from Martha Stewart’s COOKIES book. The recipe can be found here. The [...]

This recipe for peanut butter toffee cookies was recently a Cookie of the Day at the Martha Stewart website. I’ve been interested in toffee lately, so I thought that this recipe might be a good way to incorporate some toffee into my baking. I used 2 Hershey’s brand Heath bars for this recipe, just the [...]

I was super excited when I saw Joy The Baker’s recent post on flourless peanut butter cookies because these cookies are made without flour (as the name would suggest!) and also without butter (in my previous post I noted that I’m out of butter!). The cookies require only four ingredients, and they bake up soft [...]

When it comes to chocolate chip cookies, I like them chewy and gooey and warm. Out of all the chocolate chip cookies I’ve personally baked (both on this blog and off), Alton Brown’s The Chewy has been my favorite. The process of making chocolate chip cookies is pretty uniform throughout each recipe. Cream butter and [...]

I was planning on making ice cream cupcakes soon, but my daughter said she preferred ice cream cookies. I decided to make the cookies first, and the cupcakes another day. I used an M&M’s cookie recipe in a 12-year-old M&M’s cookbook that I got for free way back when (although I realize the same recipe [...]