Christmas is always better with cookies. Cookie exchanges, cookie’s for Santa, and cookies for all the homey feelings and smells. And these salted caramel oatmeal cookies are my cookie of choice this holiday season. Let me tell you how these cookies came to be: A few months ago I went with my husband to a…
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Christmas Morning Crepes
Today has been a good day. Today is Christmas Eve, but my little family of three has been pretending that today is Christmas Day. We celebrated Christmas Eve last night. My husband will be working all day tomorrow so we moved all our festivities up a day. Its our first Christmas with a child that…
Hot Cocoa Cookies
I have a personal tradition of drinking a cup of hot cocoa on the first snow of every winter. I always load it up with whipped cream drizzled with caramel and sprinkled with a little bit of hot chocolate powder. The first snow of winter calls for a little indulgence. Whether its to celebrate or…
Hot Cocoa Cream Puffs
When I was little I was big on all things fancy. When my parents were building my childhood home, I really really wanted my room to have a fancy chandelier and a canopy bed. They had a little more common sense and went with a light with little roses engraved in the glass, which I…
Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies remind me of Christmas cookie exchanges. One of the best parts of the Christmas season as a kid was getting treats from all the neighbors. The doorbell would ring and my siblings and I would scream and run to the door excited to see what treats would await us. We…