Sparkly chocolate gingerbread cookies are festive and delicious.  When we were growing up our house was like a commercial bakery leading up to Christmas. Mom made at least a dozen different kinds of cookies, along with Christmas breads, mincemeat, plum pudding, light and dark fruit cake, cherry pound cake and […]

These jumbo trail mix cookies are just right for summer hikes, picnics and road trips.  As soon as school was over the summer I was eight we moved into an old home in Rothesay. The property had an old fashioned garage and suspended from its rafters was an enormous birch […]

Double Chocolate cookies with the option to add the grown up flavours of orange zest or candied ginger. When we first moved into our current house we met the neighbourhood rabbit, Charles. He was a pet rabbit that belonged to the family that lived behind us and they let him […]

Lemon biscuits are an old fashioned cookie for nibbling and dunking. The year I lived in France my mom and dad came to visit for a couple of weeks. We did some travelling together but we also spent time in the town where I lived so I could show them […]