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Graham crackers with frosting

Easiest Ever Old-Fashioned Graham Cracker Cookies

April 15, 2020 by Sally

These Graham Cracker Cookies are a simple, yummy, and quick dessert: Just spread rich chocolate buttercream between store-bought graham crackers. I figured these graham cracker cookies were the brainchild of my mom, whenever she happened to have leftovers from frosting a cake. Then she told me her mom made them too–and when she packed them …

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Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies

Save Time With These Cut-Out Cookies You Don’t Need to Chill

December 11, 2018 by Sally

These homemade Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies are easy to make, tender and buttery, and topped with naturally colored frosting. And you don’t have to chill the dough! Thank you to the National Frozen and Refrigerated Foods Association for sponsoring this post! Of all the holiday goodies we make, classic cut-out sugar cookies are my kids’ …

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Lentil Cookies

These Cookies Can Help Your Kids Learn to Like Lentils

October 16, 2018 by Sally

Red Lentil Cookies are made with wholesome ingredients and can help your family become more familiar with the taste and texture of lentils. When my kids are learning to like a food, I’m all about baby steps. Baby steps can be mashing up beans and spreading a thin layer on a burrito instead of adding …

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

September 13, 2018 by Sally

This Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie, made with whole wheat flour and oats, is a fun treat for dessert or snack time. How have I lived this long without baking a skillet cookie?! It’s so much quicker than spooning out two dozen mounds of dough. And can we talk about how you get a …

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How to Make Naturally Colored Frosting

3 Ways to Make Naturally Colored Frosting

December 19, 2017 by Sally

Want to create bright, festive cookies without using synthetic food dyes? Here are three ways to make naturally colored frosting. This post is not about making artfully decorated sugar cookies. Obviously. I’m calling this style of cookie decorating “rustic” and “accessible”. This is all about the colors anyway. Aren’t these colors pretty? And not a …

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The Best No Bake Cookies

The BEST Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Recipe

August 10, 2017 by Sally

These easy Peanut Butter Chocolate No Bake Cookies are a classic, loaded with oats and chocolate-peanut buttery goodness–perfect for a special treat! When I say these are THE BEST No Bake Cookies, I mean it. Because they have the distinction of winning a No Bake Bake-Off. Of sorts. In fourth grade, a friend of mine and …

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Serving unlimited sweets to kids--why it works!

Would You Trust Your Kid With a Whole Plate of Cookies?

December 20, 2016 by Sally

Feeding experts say giving occasional, unlimited access to sweets is actually a good thing. Sound scary? Here’s what happened when I tried it. Like a lot of dietitians, I follow Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding. That means: I decide WHAT is served. My kids decide IF they eat it and HOW MUCH they eat. I …

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When Packaged Food Saves the Day

When Packaged Food Saves The Day

September 27, 2016 by Sally

Thank you to King Arthur Flour for sponsoring this post! I enjoy making meals, snacks, and goodies from scratch. I really, really do. But I don’t enjoy when my life feels like an endless cycle of make food/clean up/make food/repeat. So I supplement homemade foods with packaged food and feel no shame. After all, there are …

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Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies

December 10, 2015 by Sally

Thumbprint cookies, rolled in chopped walnuts and filled with a dab of frosting, are a festive holiday treat for your family. Thank you to Silpat for sending me a free Perfect Cookie Mat. My husband’s favorite Christmas cookies are Thumbprints. Specifically, the ones my mom makes when we visit over the holidays. So every December, …

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Chocolate Peppermint Bites

No-Bake Chocolate Peppermint Bites

December 4, 2015 by Sally

Do you have a love-hate relationship with frosted holiday sugar cookies like I do? They look so good. They taste SO GOOD. Problem is, they don’t feel so good. One buttercream-glazed cut-out snowman sends me into a headachy stupor. Though I’ll probably still have a sugar cookie or two this holiday season–because you know, maybe this time it …

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Naturally Colored Frosting

December 16, 2014 by Sally

Is decorating sugar cookies a holiday tradition for you? If you’d like to use natural hues to tint your frosting instead of artificial dyes, I’ve got two recipes to help you achieve red and green. Yes, naturally colored frosting takes more time than squeezing dyes from a store-bought tube. But think how much fun your kids will have …

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The Trap of Clean Eating Treats

March 27, 2014 by Sally

I’m a little bit worried about the words “healthy” and “clean”. Because I’m seeing them everywhere on social media in relation to dessert: There are recipes for Healthy Peppermint Patties. Clean Cookie Dough Blizzards. Healthy Clean-Eating Double-Chocolate Brownies with Marshmallow and Bacon Hot Fudge Sauce. Okay, I made up that last one. You get the idea. …

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