It’s a sparkly cookie sort of day.

So… it’s about an hour after lunch, and I feel like something sweet.  Granted, I’ve got some Girl Scout Thin Mints I could snack on.  But that’s not what they are for.  They’re for making homemade blizzards – if Matt doesn’t eat them all first.  That’s why I’m always super glad to have cookie dough…

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Sweetopia Sugar Cookies

A great sugar cookie recipe from Sweetopia. Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups butter (at room temperature) 2 cups sugar 2 large eggs seeds from 1 vanilla bean (or 3 tsp vanilla) 5 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt Instructions: Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer on…

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Fruit Pizza

This fruit pizza is basically a giant sugar cookie in a tart pan that is iced in a philly cream cheese topping with bananas, blueberries and strawberries. To start I always use a sugar cookie recipe with granular, instead of powered, sugar for this.  Of course, I should also mention that I make my fruit pizza…

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