Harvest flavors. Autumn is my favorite time of the year, and one of the reasons is the foods. Apples, squash, warm spices, comfort food. This quick and easy cookie recipe isn’t purely fall-like, but the dried cranberries and cinnamon chips do make my mouth water for harvest flavors. Yummy.
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I had intended to make rugulach. But then last night, just before I rolled up the rolls here, I found myself uninspired and frankly, a bit lazy. And I couldn’t find my ruler — and if you know me, I can’t cut a straight line if I tried. So, instead, I rolled the rugulach dough into logs, with the jam spread in the inside, and baked these Spiced Peach Swirl Cookies up this morning. Turned out it was a pretty nice compromise.
I was lucky enough to be given some lovely local honey the other day. I love honey, and any time it is local, all the better. So, with a bit of said honey, I decided to make these Honey Oatmeal Scotchies — oatmeal cookies sweetened with honey and butterscotch chips. Very nice snack — or maybe to go into lunch boxes if kids are going back to school (big IF there, right?)
So, these cookies are a little out of character for me: for starters, they are bigger, like the size of my hand. That is unusual for me as I prefer smaller cookies. And second, they use artificial colors in the sugar, which I do once in a blue moon. But back in late June, i made some fantastic strawberry jam, and then in mid-July, I found a strawberry shaped cookie cutter, so I knew that these cookies needed to me. They are actually quite yummy, with just a hint of almond in the cookie itself. And the homemade jam is great too.
When in doubt, make crumble bars, Kat says. Yes, I made more crumble bars. They are a great summer dessert or snack, come together in a flash and this time, I had some red current jelly to add from when I went picking last week, plus passion fruit jam. Have you ever had passion fruit jam? It’s sooooo yummy.














