Bring On Lemons

S'Mores Cookies (yields about 3 dozen 3 1/2 inch cookies) Ingredients: 1 cup room temp. butter 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar (I like dark) 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups flour (I like unbleached) 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2-3 T cocoa powder 1/2 C graham cracker crumbs 1-2 C tiny marshmallows (the ones you would use in hot cocoa) Instructions: 1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 2) Start at the top of the list (with the butter) and add the ingredients together. Stir thoroughly after each ingredient is added.Careful not to over mix once you add the marshmallows - just make sure they're combined. 3) Using 2 table spoons, place your dough on the cookie sheet (I like an airbake cookie sheet - ungreased) and do not roll, form, or worry about any of that. Just 'plop' them on there. I can only fit 9 cookies on a sheet, but of course the size of your 'plop' is going to determine that. 4) Bake on the center rack (thi...

So - I took a look at a recipe a friend sent me for rhubarb cookies and I tweaked it a bit to ensure I would end up with lots of fluffy melt in your mouth delicious cookies. So here goes: Ruby Doodle Cookies! 3 cups cake flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter, melted 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup sour cream 2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups rhubarb, diced Juice from 1/2 lemon (or approximately 2 teaspoons of lemon juice) Set aside another 1/2 cup of sugar and if desired, mix with chi latte mix (you'll use this to roll the cookies in) Pre-heat oven to 350 F and place rack in the middle position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Step One: Measure and combine in your mixer the sour cream, butter, egg, and vanilla, mix well. Step Two: add salt, sugar, lemon, baking powder, and baking soda. Continue mixing well. Step Three: add rhubarb and again mix well. Step Four: add flour and mix. Batter should be easy to handle (you...