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Lemon Almond Cookies

April 7, 2016 By Julie 2 Comments

Almond Lemon Cookie @mommiecooks

I adore spring. It’s not just the warmer weather I find appealing, but the gentle rousing of nature as it begins to wake up and once again come back to life.

Here in Charlotte it begins with the Bradford Pears.  You get up one morning and walk through your neighborhood to notice that suddenly, as if on cue, the trees have the most beautiful white flowers budding from their branches. This in itself is a glorious site, but then it gets better.  A handful of days later you walk down that same street, but now the leaves are pushing their way past the flowers causing a gentle rain of petals that my kids liken to a “first of the season” snowfall….

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Filed Under: Cookies, Dessert, Food Tagged With: almond, almond extract, cookies, Dessert, Lemon, spring, springtime

Cocoa-Nut Whoopie Pies with Whipped Pink Peppermint Filling

December 26, 2011 By Julie 8 Comments

I have been wanting to put together a whoopie pie for some time now.  Just the thought of a soft, moist, bite-sized cake paired with a creamy light center filling is enough to get my sweet tooth pining.  With the flurry of Christmas still fresh on the calendar, my home has inevitably become littered with the likes of candy, candy and more candy.  In particular, there seems to be a fondness towards mini candy canes.  They can be found everywhere from my children’s school goodie bags to the sweet filled gingerbread houses we constructed at our first annual gingerbread decorating party this year.  Check out a sampling of the masterpieces the kids put together:

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Filed Under: Dessert, Food, Other Sweet Treats Tagged With: Christmas, cookies, peppermint, whoopie pies


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