Golden Grahams Cookies

This was a random find on my favorite site - Baking Bites. I never really had Golden Grahams as a kid (we were a Life and Cheerios family), but I was interested in how they would taste in a cookie. Um, they taste really good. I just finished dunking my second "test cookie" in a glass of cold milk and am wondering if I need a third just to be safe. My one change for future batches - I'd keep the cereal crumbs a bit larger.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

I promised V these ice cream...er, frozen yogurt sandwiches as payment for a recent Friday night cat feeding. She's the bomb and just so happens to be my neighbor. I whipped up some cookies, which were chewy and oatmealy and delicious, and threw in a little frozen yogurt. Perfection.

Lime Coconut Sugar Cookies

Holy cookies - these ended up perfectly chewy and sugary. The lime flavor wasn't too overpowering, and the bits of zest were quite festive. They were a big hit and crazy easy to make. All in all, a great success. Also - lesson learned: cats love sugar cookies. Or, cats just love to lick things with sugar on them.

Cornflake Macaroons

I know, I know. Coconut and cornflakes? Really? Yes, really. These macaroons are extremely easy and have a satisfyingly sweet crunch.

Cookie Swap!

For the annual cookie swap at work, I really wanted to make gingerbread cookies. I found a yummy butterscotch gingerbread recipe and gave it a whirl.The flavors worked really well together and put me in the christmas spirit big time. My cookies were stars - both in shape and in the swap. :)

Orange Cranberry Cookies

This is my new favorite cookie recipe...and it doesn't even call for chocolate! It is super easy and will forever remind me of the first snow of 2009 (shout out v!). I meant to add walnuts to the yummy sweetness of the fruit, but completely forgot. I plan on making these over and over again so it'll happen. Orange cranberry cookies might turn out to be a common holiday gift from me to you (and you, and you, and you).

Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches

What's better than eating a yum cookie? Eating two yum cookies. What's better than that? Eating two yum cookies stuck together with chocolate. This is the best invention ever. Enough said.

Lavender Birthday Cookies

I recently celebrated my birthday and received a gift of dried lavender from one of my lovely ladies. I’ve wanted to get my hands on this beautifully delicious flower for a while now and spent hours searching for my first lavender recipe. I decided on a basic sugar cookie recipe that called for lemon juice – yum. Several things were learned during this process: 1) baking with lavender makes your apartment smell like heaven (like, an expansive field of wildflowers heaven with weeping willows and puppies), 2) you don’t need a rolling pin to make sugar cookies, and 3) I LOVE LAVENDER.