Lemon Snickerdoodles Cookies

Lemon Snickerdoodle Cookies Stacked Turns out my 2 1/2 year old son is a culinary genius, a natural in the kitchen. I enlisted his help one afternoon to make some cookies and he not only enjoyed all the ingredient dumping and stirring, but he insisted on adding something special to our usual snickerdoodle recipe. My options? A red pepper, a yellow onion, or a big lemon. Although the onion was so very tempting I decided to go with the lemon.
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Perfectly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

Finding the right chocolate chip cookie recipe is kind of like dating. Once you fall in love you stop looking. You either have one you LOVE and stick to it or you just keep trying new ones. I used to be a dater. I tried everything, even the one on the back of the chocolate chip bag. I know. Sad. Fortunately for me I never met a chocolate chip cookie I didn’t like.

Well folks, that was before.

Then one glorious day I found this recipe from Roland Mesnier, former White House pastry chef. It was love at first bite and I never strayed again.
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