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The Basics: Butter Cookie Dough

We're very happy to introduce our first ever guest blogger, Kelsey Nixon.

We're very happy to introduce our first ever guest blogger, Kelsey Nixon. You may remember Kelsey from the Next Food Network Star or Kelsey & Spike Cook. Here, she finds the solution to one reader's quest for a great versatile cookie dough recipe.
Having a go-to basic butter cookie dough for the holidays can be a huge time saver when your baking is in full swing (along with everything else!). This butter cookie dough recipe can be transformed into a variety of sweet treats for special occasions, gifts, and holiday traditions. With a few tweaks to the basic recipe, you will have an assortment of cookies that taste nothing like one another. It’s also easy to improvise your own creations. Adding a little bit of this or eliminating a little bit of that works perfectly with this recipe.

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Come Party With Me

Come Party With Me: Cookie Party — Menu (Part II)

The cookie party I am planning in honor of National Cookie Month is more than just a party.


The cookie party I am planning in honor of National Cookie Month is more than just a party. It is also a challenging bake off where everyone's cookies will be judged and voted on. Although DearSugar says the hostess can not win her own contest, I still want to have some amazing cookies. To entertain guests, make cookies that are a little harder to find or feature fun ingredients. Marshmallows and dulce de leche are my secret ingredients, and my Mississippi mud cookies and butter cookies with dulce de leche will surely be a hit. You know you want the recipes so, read more