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Sweets: Cookies & Bars

perfect pumpkin cookie

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Dec 18, 2010.

If you followed this blog back in 2010, you’ll remember how crazy I went with pumpkins! I cooked up a bunch and used it to make all sorts of cookies, muffins, bread and more.

 

When a I followed posted , I immediately saved the recipe and ta-da, have now shared it with you. I remember actually making them in my Grandma’s house in Idaho. Let me tell you, it’s harder to cook in someone else’s kitchen than I had originally thought! But it was enjoyable.

Print the recipe  (just slightly adapted from ).

Sweets: Cookies & Bars

high-altitude ginger molasses cookies

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As I mentioned before, I tire of trying to adjust my own recipes to produce good results at high elevation, so I went on a hunt for a proven ginger cookie recipe. I’ll always save my mother’s for when I’m baking at sea level, but this I found is a phenomenal substitute.

How to describe how it tastes…?

In one word – CHRISTMAS. It tastes like Christmas, folks.

I didn’t adapt a single part of Mountain Mama’s . It’s that awesome.

Also, as she says and as I’ve tested out more than once, these freeze really well!

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Drinks

instant spiced tea mix

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Oct 31, 2012.

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I don’t know what possessed me to try to be creative, but I think it turned out all right!  I signed up to be a vendor at a local Christmas Bazaar here and created these jars:

It was fun to shop for the pieces with my mom and also to have a mom that owned a glue gun.  Heh.

The bazaar is going on this weekend (starting tomorrow!) so if you’d like to stop by and see all the other awesome items being sold, you can find the details on .  You might have to scroll down a little. :)

 gives an amazing flavor of Christmas.  Find it  if you’d like to create it yourself!

Breakfast

looking back: mini cinnamon rolls

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Aug 25, 2012.

As I mentioned in my , I decided to clean up the site and start it fresh. These “looking back” posts will be fairly frequent as I catch up my collection of recipes on here…

Unfortunately, unless I make the dough from scratch, this particular recipe is impossible to create in Quito. At least, I am unaware of any store selling tubes of crescent roll dough… However, I am so used to having to make dough (pies, pizzas, etc.) from scratch that maybe I’ll just need to make these again soon!

From the original post:

These little babies were a cinch to make.  My brother dropped by after I had made them, ate one and was moderately pleased.  When I returned from an errand a little bit later, there were only a few left.  Hmmm…  Apparently they were better than he let on!

I’ve never actually made normal-sized cinnamon rolls from scratch so I can’t fully compare, but I sure prefer eating the mini ones better!  I love bite-sized foods.  :)

The maple-flavored icing was the kicker.  The perfect touch.  And I’m not usually a huge maple fan!

The idea came from and the recipe from . Seriously just make this next time you need a quick breakfast/brunch crowd pleaser.  The 8 minutes is completely worth it.

Print/download the recipe here: