This is a recipe of my Mother’s. I have no idea where she found the recipe, but it has become one of those family Christmas cookies staples that we make every year. We usually use this recipe to make gingerbread men, but this year I was going for simple – figuring that the bunny shape…
Category: Baking
Chocolate-Cherry Shortbread
Recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies. Ingredients: 1 cup (2 sticks) Butter (room temp) + 6 tbsp Butter 1/2 cup Powdered (Confectionary) Sugar 1/4 cup Maraschino Cherry Syrup 1 tsp Salt 2 1/2 cups Flour 1 cup diced Maraschino Cherries 12 oz Simi-Sweet Chocolate Directions: Cream together, in a large bowl, 1 cup butter and…
Lila’s Cinnamon Rolls
Grandma Lila made the BEST cinnamon rolls! Sunday and Holiday mornings at Grandma Lila’s would start out several trays of sweet, gooey, goodness. She would make huge batches of them to feed her loving husband, 8 children, several in-laws, 20 grandchildren, family friends, and even a few great-grandchildren. Needless to say, she had it down…
Turkey Salteñas
In a bid to use up my turkey leftovers last week I decided to make some turkey salteñas. Salteñas, a childhood staple of mine, are a Bolivian meat pie commonly stuffed with a spicy beef or chicken filling. In my experience turkey is rarely used in Salteñas, but I thought that this might be a…
The Ephemeral Bee 