It’s Christmas! Let the Christmas cookie baking begin! Listen, even before I was trying to make our food a little healthier, I loved baking homemade Christmas cookies. I grew up on sugar cookies (that we later tweaked to make with more real food). Nothing beats homemade Christmas cookies over the holidays. Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Today […]
Christmas cookie season is here, which is great news! But for those of us with food sensitivities and allergies, cookie season gets complicated. Today I want to show you a dairy-free cookie recipe for Christmas – specifically gingerbread, but you can use these tips for many different Christmas cookies. It’s actually really easy! And they
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Here’s my recipe for kifli cookies because kiflis are my absolute favorite cookie recipe. (Pronounced keeflee) A pound of butter. A pound of walnuts (use the code STEWARDSHIP for 10% off at that site!). A whole Tablespoon of almond extract. Some recipes are just made for the elitism of the once-a-year Christmas cookie. Favorite Christmas
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Christmas is filled with traditions. Each family creates their own and passes them on to the next generation. One of the traditions that my mom passed on to me is baking Christmas treats. I could sit and watch her bake for hours. I was fascinated by it (and now thirty years later write about my
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All summer long you are in control of what your kids eat and when they eat. There is an abundance of fresh fruit to serve IF they need a little snack (not when snack time is a mandatory part of their day). Breakfasts don’t have to be made AND consumed in ten minutes in order to
Fall is here and so are pumpkins! I love stuffing these nutritious veggies into cookies and more. This sugar-free gluten-free pumpkin cookie recipe is a big hit in the Kimball household. What’s 10 tablespoons divided by (7×12) cookies? Got your Math brain on? I’m running on even less sleep than usual since the arrival of
Cookies and I… we have a bit of love/hate relationship. I mean, they’re cookies. Yum! But they are also (usually) chock full of sugar that makes me feel blah and my crew of kids go a wee bit wild. Blah! But, it is so fun seeing my family’s faces when I make them cookies. Yeah!
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My husband nuked my cookie dough! The only redeeming factor in that situation is that it makes for a pretty funny opening to this post. Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for
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Desserts are the feature at the Whole Foods for the Holidays: Real Food Progressive Dinner this week, thanks to our host, Kate of Modern Alternative Mama. Memories of Christmas Cookies For our family at Christmastime, it’s all about the cookies. My mother always made a bazillion varieties, and my husband’s family absolutely focuses on the
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Want to get a super food like pumpkin into your family? Put it in cookies! My husband, who doesn’t even like pumpkin, loves these healthy pumpkin cookies. The whole wheat version of the recipe hardly tastes different than the unhealthy pumpkin cookie recipe I started out with, and they remain quite easy to make. It’s
I don’t understand it, but I’m going to embrace it! I have finally made proper chocolate chip cookies, a feat I have been unable to do since getting married. They’re even healthy with 100% whole wheat flour. It was like a curse – no matter what troubleshooting I did or how I fidgeted with the
