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I had extra zucchini from my garden so I made these delicious Zucchini Brownies this week, and my family couldn’t stop eating them. They were so good! My mother-in-law also happen to stop by and we gave her one. She loved it so much that she took a brownie home with her. So these Zucchini Brownies and really yummy! If you have zucchini from the garden you need to use, then be sure to make this recipe for your family. They’ll love it!
I love the smell of a fresh apple pie cooking in the oven when the weather is turning cooler outside. And I especially love making this homemade Apple Pie Filling because once it’s completed it’s so easy to put an apple pie in the oven within minutes.
When making this recipe, I used to peel, core and cut all of my apples using a knife, but I finally invested in a Johnny Apple Peeler. I wish I would have purchased it years ago because it would have saved me so much time! It peels, cores and slices the apples and really makes the process of adding the apples to the jars so much faster. And my little ones love helping me use the apple peeler. It’s a good product you’ll want to look into having if you plan to make homemade apple pie every year.
The best soft and chewy snickerdoodles cookie recipe that is coated with cinnamon and sugar. And it’s an easy snickerdoodle recipe to make!
For the past month, my daughter has been asking me to make snickerdoodle cookies. I made this easy snickerdoodle recipe, and they are so good! They are seriously the best snickerdoodles I’ve ever had! And they are the best soft and chewy snickerdoodles. We loved them so much that I made them three times within two weeks. Mostly we just ate them, but we did give some away to neighbors too.
Before explaining how to make this snickerdoodle recipe, here are the answers to some questions that are asked regularly about snickerdoodles.
Snickerdoodles are sometimes referred to as sugar cookies, but there is a difference between the two. The main difference is that snickerdoodles are rolled in a cinnamon sugar mixture making them more cinnamon flavored. Sugar cookies don’t have any cinnamon in them.
Another difference is the cream of tartar. When I make sugar cookies, I use cream of tartar. But this is a chewy snickerdoodle recipe without cream of tartar. However, there are sugar cookie recipes that don’t use cream of tarter, and there are snickerdoodle recipes that do use cream of tartar. So it really depends on the recipe when it comes to cream of tartar.
There are some reasons that snickerdoodles go flat. Here are a few solutions to help ensure that your snickerdoodles don’t go flat.
Baking with cold dough will prevent the dough from spreading, so be sure to chill the dough for an hour or two before baking.
I roll my dough into a circle, but you could try making the dough taller and more like a cylinder. This will help so the middle of the snickerdoodle cookie stays soft and chewy.
Make sure not to over-cream the butter and sugar mixture in the mixer. Only mix it for a minute or two to make sure it’s combined and to ensure it’s not over-mixed.
Also, adding too little flour can cause cookies to be flat, greasy and crispy. So try adding a little more flour to the recipe.
Yes, you can freeze snickerdoodle cookie dough balls.
To do this, first roll the dough into balls, then place them on a cookie sheet and put them in the freezer for 1-2 hours to flash freeze them. Flash freezing helps so the cookie dough balls don’t stick together in one big lump when frozen.
Transfer the cookies to a freezer bag, label the outside and place the bag in the freezer for up to 3 months.
To bake the cookies, thaw them in the refrigerator overnight, then roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar topping. Place them on a cookie sheet prepared with parchment paper and bake them according to the snickerdoodle cookie recipe.
Here is the process how to make the best snickerdoodle cookies. This is a chewy snickerdoodle recipe without cream of tarter.
First, prepare the dough by using the recipe below. Once the snickerdoodle cookie dough is formed, roll the dough into 1-inch balls. Then roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar mixture and place them on a cookie sheet that has been prepared with parchment paper.
Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. I always take my cookies out at 8 minutes because I like them really soft and chewy. The snickerdoodles may not look like they are done, but once you take them out and let them sit on the cookie pan for a few minutes, they always turn out just right, which is soft and chewy inside.
These Flower Pretzel Bites are so yummy and they are so easy to make. They have a perfect sweet and salty combination that makes it so you want to eat more than just one. And my kids had so much fun helping me to put the M&M’s on the top. These Flower Pretzel Bites are a perfect treat for Easter, spring or Mother’s Day.
To make the Flower Pretzel Bites you will need these ingredients:
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Line a baking pan with parchment paper. Then place the pretzel snaps in a single layer on a the parchment.
If you want to make a simple and delicious dessert for St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll want to make these Easy St. Patrick’s Day Cookies. I made these cookies for a friend get together and everyone enjoyed them. They loved that the cookies were green and festive, and they loved that the cookies tasted really good. I made sure to leave some of the cookies behind for the family since they loved them so much.
While making the cookies, the one thing I wished that I had purchased was a cookie dough scooper to help make the cookies into perfectly round balls, and it would have helped so my hands wouldn’t get as messy. They were definitely worth making, and these Easy St. Patrick’s Day Cookies will now be a family St. Patrick’s Day tradition.
If you enjoy sugar cookies, but you don’t want to take time to make them from scratch or to go through the process of making them, then you’ll want to make these easy Sugar Cookie Bars. You don’t have to use cookie cutters or bake and frost individual cookies. You just spread all the dough out in one pan, bake it, then frost it once it’s cooled. And these Sugar Cookie Bars really taste just like sugar cookies, and they are delicious!
Plus, these Sugar Cookie Bars are an easy dessert for Valentine’s Day that they kids will love to eat. Here is how to make the Sugar Cookie Bars:
I made these Peppermint Oreo Truffles for my family and they are yummy and chocolatey. I especially love the peppermint flavor when I bite into the truffle because I think of the holidays. What I also love about the truffles is that they only take four ingredients to make them. I had three of the four ingredients in my pantry, and only had to pick up the almond bark during one of my grocery shopping trips.
For the outside of the truffle, I chose to use almond bark but you could use a chocolate bar. You could even do half and half and make some truffles with white chocolate and some with chocolate.
Wrap up a handful of these truffles in a cellophane bag and add a tag and bow to make a sweet treat for neighbors and friends for the holidays. Here’s how to make the holiday Peppermint Oreo Truffles:
I was recently at a birthday party of a friend, and she made this Toffee Cream Cheese Apple Dip. It was SO good! I had a hard time not taking and placing some of this apple dip on my plate every time I passed the food table. Because it was delicious, I knew I had to make this for my family to try, and of course for me to eat.
This Toffee Cream Cheese Apple Dip is only 5 ingredients and takes minutes to mix it together and make it. If you have any holiday parties you are going to, then this is a delicious treat to take with you to share with everyone.
Check out this recipe how to make this easy Toffee Cream Cheese Apple Dip:
I love Halloween, and I love making Halloween desserts and treats! This Halloween Graveyard Cheesecake Dip was so fun to make, and my younger daughter enjoyed helping me to decorate the top with the graveyard scene. The recipe makes a lot of dip, which is perfect to take to a Halloween party. If you want to make this Halloween Graveyard Cheesecake Dip for your family, then you’ll want to cut the recipe in half.
This recipe is part of the Cupcake Diaries “30 Days of Halloween” Series by Allison. It features 30 recipes from bloggers. You can see all of these posts on the bottom of this post and remember to keep checking back each day in September as there will be a new recipe posted each day!
Every summer at our yearly neighborhood barbecue, it has become a tradition for me to make and bring peanut butter bars. One year when I didn’t bring peanut butter bars, I had a few people who were disappointed because they were looking forward to eating them. Since that time, I have brought peanut butter bars every year to the neighborhood barbecue. This past week, I made a new peanut butter bar recipe and I love them even more than my other recipe! This peanut butter bar recipe is definitely one that you’ll want to keep on hand. Here is how to make the Best Peanut Butter Bars:
