Inside my recipe box
I make treats for my kids every Tuesday. The other four school days, I’m a stickler for healthy snacks. On Tuesdays, however a mid-day dessert is waiting when they come home from school. They always walk in the door asking, “What is Treat Tuesday?” and I always keep them guessing by challenging them to identify the treat by smell. The only downside of this tradition is I hear about it if I have a particularly busy Tuesday and don’t get around to making the treat. That rarely happens because I can’t stand the groaning! (OK, and I’m a sucker for their appreciation for TT’s, even into their teen years.) When you see a dessert recipe with a TT next to it, you know it was one of our Tuesday Treats!
I played a game with my family over this recipe. Guess the secret ingredient. They couldn’t identify what I had added to the dough and some of the guesses were most random. The secret, potato chips! Crushed up Lay’s to be exact. We had an …
Such a classic cookie. Totally reminds me of my childhood. This recipe does not have brown sugar, or vanilla, or spices mixed in the dough. It is simply a wonderfully buttery dough rolled in cinnamon sugar. Your electric mixer pretty much does all the work …
Need an after school snack?? This is your recipe. Think of them as baby whoopee pies without the marshmallows. Why mini brownies? First, look how adorable the pan and muffin papers are! Second, who doesn’t love a recipe that calls for you to make a …
I took a summer hiatus from Treat Tuesday to try some new things in the kitchen. I have definitely missed my Tuesday scents wafting through the home and my family has been complaining, oh how they just can’t make due with ice cream and box …