Cookies & Bars

Chocolate Chunk Cookies (a.k.a. chocolate “chip” cookies on steroids) are rich and buttery, slightly chewy, soft-on-the-inside cookies with dark chocolate chunks in every delicious bite.

Mint. Fudge. Brownies. If you’re a sucker for anything chocolate and mint, stop what you’re doing right now and listen up. Imagine the most delicious, moist and fudgy brownie you’ve ever tasted. Top that with a creme de menthe buttercream, and as if that wasn’t enough, add a layer of rich chocolate ganache. Do I …

Lemon Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are delicious buttery shortbread-like gems filled with tart raspberry jam and drizzled with a sweet powdered sugar almond-flavored glaze.

Marshmallow and chocolate lovers everywhere will flip over these tasty, pretty little Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies. A gooey marshmallow covered in dark chocolate shell sits on top of a bite-size crisp graham flavored cookie. Crunchy, gooey, chocolatey goodness!

Espresso Chocolate Chip Biscotti, with a burst of coffee and chocolate in one delicious cookie, is perfect for dunking in a cup of coffee while relaxing by the fire. Flavored with espresso powder and studded with mini chocolate chips, I like to ice my biscotti cookies with melted chocolate and sprinkles for the season.

Peppermint Chocolate Drop Cookies with rich chocolate brownie flavor and cool peppermint crunch are the ultimate Christmas cookies for die-hard chocolate and mint lovers. Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, these Peppermint Chocolate Drop Cookies are drizzled with peppermint glaze and studded with crushed candy canes.

This post has been sponsored by HERSHEY’S. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Ginger and cinnamon spices make the best holiday cookies, but if you add chocolate on top, well… then you have a real GEM. A Gingerbread Gem, that is.

Pumpkin Delight, with layers of sweetened cream cheese and creamy pumpkin pie pudding on top of a cookie crust, is crowned with Cool Whip and crunchy Heath bits.

Rich and buttery Blueberry White Chocolate Cookie Bars are studded with fresh blueberries and are melt-in-your mouth delicious. Who doesn’t love a good cookie bar? I know I do, especially because when they come together so easily.

Today’s Cherry Biscotti recipe is a vanilla biscotti cookie studded with dried cherries that has hints of both orange and almond flavors. This twice-baked Italian cookie is a light and crispy cherry dessert that is delicious served with coffee or tea.

Homemade Cannoli filled with a sweet ricotta cream and dipped in chocolate is sure to make any Valentine’s Day celebration extra, extra special. The pastry for cannoli shells is a sweet dough flavored with Marsala cooking wine which is deep fried until golden. Marsala makes these cannoli extra flaky and delicious and the cream filling …

Ginger Molasses Cookies have been a Christmas baking tradition in our house for over twenty years. It just wouldn’t seem like the holidays without baking up a batch.