Ten months old already!
More cute Easter pics on the Adventures of Chloe blog . . .
Sugar Cookie Bites with Nutella Nests
When I had my chocolate business, people would often ask me what my favorite chocolate holiday was – Christmas? Valentine’s Day? But oddly enough, it was always Easter. I loved making Continue reading
Jelly Bean Sugar Cookies
UPDATE 5 APRIL 2012: Hold the phone, people! I just made these again with a different recipe – adapted from Five Flavor Sugar Cookies, over at Cookie Madness – and they were The Bomb. I do not say this lightly. The mix of vanilla, lemon, rum, and coconut works perfectly to make these cookies taste like Easter and spring all wrapped in one neat little package. Photos and recipe in this post have now been updated with the new recipe. If you want just a plain old, plain old version you can use the sugar cookie recipe from the Sugar Cookie Bites with Nutella Nests post. Now go forth and bake!
Yesterday I was taking pictures of the sweet miniature daffodils at the park near our house. Today, those adorable little daffys were covered in snow. Snow! In March! At sea level! Pbblllt. I’m ready for spring, people. Continue reading
End of an Era.
Well, maybe not an era, really. But seven years, anyway – almost a fifth of my entire life! The biz has been closed for a couple months now, but scraping the sign off the window today really made it feel final, like the click of the latch on a door closing behind me. Today was also my last day of childcare, so starting tomorrow I’m a full-on-five-long-days-a-week-stay-at-home-mom.
Taking down the sign was sad – but you know what wasn’t sad? The rent check from the new tenant!
Now I’m off to celebrate with some Thin Mints and perhaps a Samoa or two.
Kate, if you are reading this, that last sentence was a typo and in fact says “a very healthy apple and a big glass of water”.
One year ago on C&T: Rocky Road No Bake Bars
Two years ago on C&T: Ribbon Shortbread Cookies and Chocolate Chai Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
Three years ago on C&T: Cinnamon Caramel Almond Brownies
Pardon my language, but it is February, after all.
Busted.
Lesson learned: never text with your personal trainer during Girl Scout Cookie Season. And never, ever, admit on Facebook how many boxes of cookies you have already eaten. Especially if you are FB friends with said personal trainer.
This is going to hurt.
Valentine Message Cookies
I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. Which may be the worst possible way to start a post about heart shaped cookies with little love messages on them – but, there it is. All those hearts, and the pink and the red and the flowers and the mushy sentiments, they just make my skin itch. Continue reading
Chocolate Cherry Shortbread Cookies
This is my favorite shortbread cookie, in part because the dough is tasty (and no eggs, so no dough-eating guilt, yay!) and in part because it is so flippin’ easy. Foolproof, I might even say. And endlessly tweak-able. This is the same dough Continue reading
Sour and Sweet.
This will absolutely be my most controversial, divisive, provocative post to date. I anticipate a mad rush of comments, far outstripping all my previous posts. You know, like five.
It’s not about food. It’s about . . .
2011 in Words. Scary, Scary Words.
You’d think that after dishing out only 21 new posts this year, there would be little to put in a year end round up. Ohhhh, but you would be wrong. I find that you, my friends, can be far more interesting than me. The 38,139 of you who have stopped by this place in the last two and a half years. The 50 or so of you who still stop by every day, even without a new post to lure you in. What brings you here?
Very. Interesting. Things.
Keywords, people. Those words you punch into a search engine when you want to find something. Words like . . .
Chocolate Compost Cookies
I have never been an “it” girl. If you asked anyone to describe me, the word “fashionable” would never occur to them. Hip? Trendy? Edgey? No, no, and golly no. I blame it on my Idaho upbringing-you know, back in the days before the internets and cell phones and such, when po-dunk places like my hometown Continue reading
