Russian Tea Cakes

I am so sorry I've kind of taken a little leave of absence.  I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off since about Thanksgiving so I've been seriously slacking.  

I hope everyone out there is having a wonderful holiday spent with friends, family, and if you're exceptionally lucky...pooches in the snow for the very first time.

She always keeps that one foot up.  The rest...they can get snowy but this one?  This one I gotta keep dry.

After a few attempts to eat it...she realized that she absolutely loves the snow.  

Cookies and Cream Oreo Chunk Cookies

I'm sorry for doing this to you.  I know I already have a few other recipes that involve Oreos...and it's really just not nice.

I don't know about you, but I'm ridiculously trying to diet a little bit before I go home for the holidays, just so I can afford to eat the heck out of some Christmas cookies.

But these.  Are.  So.  Good.

Chocolate Raspberry Crumb Bars

I have done just a remarkably terrible job of keeping up with the holidays this year.  I love Christmas time, of course...but between work and Christmas shopping and making up goofy songs to sing to Cricket, I just feel super short on free time this season.

So to make up for that, I tried to bust out the stops the other day by making these bars.  

Old Fashioned Apple Pie

What is there to say about this dessert that hasn't already been said?

It's comforting.  It's buttery, flaky, spicy, sweet, tart, delicious.  It's America.