Blogspot - Recipe Scratch Rusia

  What is it about back to school time that makes me want to stock the cookie jar?  Mike and Emma only like regular chocolate chip cookies.  Ugh.  I need a little variety!  Snickerdoodles, Peanut Butter, Sugar...   They could eat chocolate chip cookies, boxes of brownies and plain chocolate cake their entire life and be fulfilled.  It makes it hard for me to want to come up with new  recipes when they always ask for the classics.   However, when Emma was at school this week, I took it upon myself to experiment.  I started with their favorite chocolate chip recipe (tollhouse, but I use a little extra brown sugar and a little less white to make chewier) and added lots of yummy things - PB Chips, Chocolate Chips, Pretzels and Flaked Sea Salt. They loved them!  Yay for a new  favorite! After school bliss after a long day in 1st Grade.    Sometimes I miss the lazy days of summer, but I also love a ...

The Nautical Copper Cookie Cutters have been staples of my store for the last four years.  This year when I pulled them out I was in the mood to do a little something different.  I've been following ElisabethandButter and love her watercolor technique.  I thought it would be the perfect artistic take on these favorite shapes. Nautical Copper Cookie Cutters  come packaged in a Cello Gift Bag with my Sugar Cookie Recipe Card  and are tied with a ribbon.  They make a wonderful gift. It was much easier than expected - though I'm not sure mine are quite as perfect as hers, of course!  I used butter icing - because I can't not use butter icing, though I'm sure royal would create a better surface for painting.   For the sailboat, I added a bit of blue and black gel food coloring on the plate, then wet my paintbrush and mixed them together, little by little.  I brushed on some light strokes to create dimension (maybe some wind!) on the sail.  ...

We were recently at a bakery and they had these big flakes of sea salt on their chocolate chip cookies.  For a household where I'm not really encouraged to make anything but Chocolate Chip when it comes to cookies - this was a  delightful new spin for me.  Especially because I can load ours up with flaked sea salt and leave Emma's normal without great effort. Of course, you can use any chocolate chip cookie recipe that you like, but I did include my notes & tips below.  I started with the original Tollhouse recipe. I feel like I'm probably behind the bandwagon here.  I know salted everything has been around for a while.  I mean, I posted a Salted Caramel recipe about 7 years ago...  But, for some reason, I've just now gotten around to buying real flaked sea salt.   It is probably the smallest investment you can make in the kitchen for a "fancy" ingredient.  I think it was $6 at our grocery store?   I think you can find it at Ta...

These cookies may look difficult to make, but they are really simple.  You just need to follow the steps - starting with the body, covering it with sprinkles, and then making the wings and eyes.  It is really as simple as outlining and filling in.  The sprinkles add great texture on the body - giving the cookies one more element to make them look special, but actually make them really easy to decorate. You can buy the Bat Cookie Cutter here  .  I have had them made in Copper, so they are something you can keep and use year after year as a tradition. I've included a video tutorial that shows the decorating, step-by-step... complete with spooky sound effects that Emma help me pick out. I used my favorite sugar cookie dough - here is the recipe for the cookies and the royal icing.  I recommend making them ahead of time, then refrigerating them before you bake - it helps them hold their shape. I've added some fun and simple Halloween packaging to my store - ...