Dessert-o-licious

Trying to change it up a bit from the more usual “Turkey” cookies, check out these great pilgrim cookies from Flickr! Or do both, like the photo above from jillfcs!

Cutting out cookies in various shapes and decorating them with royal icing for to give them a festive Thanksgiving feel is such a fun idea for desserts this year. We have been scouring Flickr to find you the best looking Thanksgiving cookies and will be posting them here to give you some great ideas!

It was cookie day! I had been hearing about this class for weeks and was excited it was finally upon us. Our chef warned us that we were about to make literally hundred of cookies and should invite some friends to come at the end of class to enjoy the bounty. We were told that [...]

When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about eating a heavy meal followed by some heavy desserts, so this year I decided to change it up a bit and create some great light French Macarons inspired by Thanksgiving pies. The first macaron was a cinnamon macaron with a pumpkin frosting, aka “Pumpkin Pie”, and the [...]

Pastry school is now in full swing and I’ve got 2 weeks under my belt! In lesson 3 we continued doing lots of math problems and eventually got to make our first recipe using a pot, hard caramel. The caramel was made by mixing some sugar in a pot with a little bit of lemon [...]

Just made these great cookies from Giada on Food Network. The full recipe can be found here. The cookies are made from butter, sugar, an egg, vanilla and almond extract, cinnamon, dried cherries and toasted almonds. I followed the recipe exactly, but decided to skip the icing since the cookies seemed sweet enough to me [...]

Don’t these just make you want to bundle up with your cutie? I love how the cookies are placed on the sugar like snow! They simultaneously make me want to sit by the fireplace and go out to holiday parties! Originally posted on Flickr by bossacafez.

Flickr Fridays are back! And what better way than by remembering all of the good times we had last weekend. Gobble Gobble! Originally posted on Flickr by Lala512.

Just made these pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving tomorrow and let me tell you, they are the softest cookies ever (and delicious too)!! My husband hates pumpkin and usually refuses to eat anything with it, but even he couldn’t resist these! I originally saw these cookies on sporkorfoon.com and at the time ran out to buy [...]

I love to bake, but I never know what to do with all of the finished products, so I wind up not baking as often as I would. But, I just came upon the Drop In & Decorate site and I’m very suddenly inspired. Since Mother’s Day is just around the corner, wouldn’t it be [...]