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Video: It’s all about the butter with holiday cookies

In this December 2012 Smart tip video, Sarah Chain shows you how to get the best cookies by watching how soft the butter is.

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Holiday countdown: Christmas cookies!

Last weekend, a co-worker and I set aside a Saturday night for Christmas cookies. We had grand ambitions — peanut butter blossoms with Hershey kisses on top, gingerbread cookies with white chocolate chips, chocolate drop cookies and, of course, the … Continue reading

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A recipe for success: Perfect chocolate chip cookies

Today’s FlipSide Weekend channels my craftier side in honor of Make a Gift Day and National Cookie Day this weekend. You can learn how to make five unique, low-cost containers to house all the Christmas cookies you’re going to give … Continue reading

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Holiday countdown: Break out the cookie recipes

Last year when I baked cookies for an holiday exchange at work, I didn’t adjust the baking time for my finicky, often-too-hot oven. I ended up with burnt peanut butter blossoms whose Hershey kisses didn’t really stay on. Read: Those … Continue reading

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Turkey-Hand Cookies

You know it’s never good when your four-year-old asks you to go to www.nickjr.com/parents so that we can get the directions to make turkey cookies.  He was excited and made me promise to get the directions.  So being a sadomasochist … Continue reading

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