isabel's spice cookies.

spice cookies
spice cookies

Thanks to my sister the baking goddess, I arrived home to a kitchen full of goodies; chocolate "lollipops," marbled peppermint bark, and chewy spice cookies. Her baked goods are always delicious, but these spice cookies are special - achieveing the perfect taste and texture in a cookie is a difficult task. (Mine always end up melting into one big cookie.)

Isabel used this Real Simple recipe and her advice was, "sans black pepper, real butter not margarine, bake for 10 minutes." Another idea: use the white chocolate cream cheese icing from these spice cupcakes, put it between two spice cookies, and make an out-of-control delicious whoopie pie-esque sandwich. Yum.


P.S. Last year she made white chocolate cake bites and an accompanying video tutorial.
P.P.S. The lovely little cake stand pictured is the mary plate, named after my dear friend Mary.

21 comments:

the southern hostess said...

These look perfect! I'm feeling inspired to head into the kitchen.

Mandy said...

Yummy, need to try these!!

homemade grits said...

oh yum! you make giving up sugar really hard missy:)

wishful nals said...

yum! i love spice cookies. you two sisters need to open a bakery!

ChloƩ said...

Your idea of a spice cookie whoopie pie sounds like the perfect way to die of happiness. Yum!

Fancy Pants said...

OH those look wonderful. I think I'll work on some over the weekend!!

carlotta said...

those look to die for. so yummy! and congratulations on a thousand followers! :)

Cassandra Marie said...

Chewy cookies are my favorite! And these ones look particularly yummy ;)

p.s. Congrats on 1000 followers!

xo

AbbieBabble said...

Mmmmm. . . these look like holiday happiness on a plate.

Whitney said...

Ohhhh thats sounds delicious! I have a huge list of Christmas goodies I want to bake. I can't wait to get started!

Cathi said...

Those sound fabulous. I do envision you and your sister opening up a bakery someday - make it So Cal please! :) xxoo

jillian m. said...

how yummy!

by the way, out of all the recipes, the one i've wanted to try the most is your salted caramel brownies. they look like the most heavenly brownies on earth. i'm contemplating making them for xmas!

Eva Marie said...

now thats just YUM

Meghan said...

I'm going to try these cookies when I head home tomorrow. My mom makes to die for spice bars, and I can't wait to make it in cookie form.

Linnea said...

These look delicious! When I first saw them, they reminded me of a Martha Stewart recipe for molasses cookies that I've had success with:

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/chewy-molasses-spice-cookies

I couldn't believe how perfect these cookies crackled on top when I baked them... I didn't think I liked molasses until I tried these!

Also I like your innovative thinking on the whoopie-pie idea :o)

Caroline said...

Sounds divine and looks divine! YUM!

size too small said...

these look amazing. planning on doing some holiday baking myself.

alessandracastillo said...

I made these cookies, along with these pinwheel cookies today for mini holiday giftbags for my coworkers! In me + boyfriend's opinion they are delicious, now let's wait and see if the regular Chilean population enjoys them!

Link to pinwheel cookies: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/cinnamon-pinwheels-recipe-00000000024243/index.html#commenting

HEARBLACK. said...

my wife and i took your tip and made these yesterday - turned out great, thanks!

rachelinaustin said...

Those look super tasty!!

Silvie. said...

too bad my brother doesn't bake for me!!! :p

 

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