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Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies {Guest Post on Twin Stripe}

December 17, 2013 by Cate 43 Comments

Soft peanut butter cookies are decorated to look like little reindeer! These Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies are the cutest Christmas cookies ever!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year….cookie season! I really can’t get enough cookies around Christmas, so I am excited to share my cookie love today as a guest poster on Twin Stripe. Twin Stripe is my friend Katie‘s lovely blog all about food, design, parties, and the fun things in life! She is going to have some great Christmas recipes this week, so be sure to check them out.

There have been a lot of cookie recipes on Chez CateyLou lately like these gingerbread cookies and these white chocolate cranberry cookies, but I saved my favorite one to share with you today. These Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies are the cutest cookies I have ever made! Look at those little faces – aren’t they precious? And as an added bonus, they taste amazing too.
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White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

December 9, 2013 by Cate 27 Comments

Soft and chewy cookies are loaded with white chocolate chips and cranberries! The colors and flavor of these White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are so festive!

Monday. Morning. Cold. Gray. Wintery-mix. All words that I do not like, but that unfortunately are a reality right now. So I think we need some cookies to brighten up this dismal day! It is definitely a cookies for breakfast kind of Monday morning, don’t you think? Well I have the perfect recipe for you – white chocolate cranberry cookies! Dried cranberries = fruit = breakfast food, right?…

French Butter Cookies (Sables)

December 6, 2013 by Cate 37 Comments

These French Butter Cookies, also called a Sable, have a slightly crunchy and crumbly texture, and a rich buttery flavor. They are an easy yet elegant Christmas cookie!

Ever since we got back from Paris, I can’t stop dreaming about our amazing trip and all things French. So I just had to bake up a French cookie to pretend I was back in France. Sables are delicate butter cookies that are slightly crunchy and slightly crumbly in texture. Sable means sand in french, and the texture is kind of sandy – hence the name! They are simple in flavor but absolutely delicious. Plus you can decorate them with colored sugars, making them the perfect little treat around Christmas! We encountered cookies like this or some variation of a sable all over the bakeries of Paris. They are served when you order afternoon tea or coffee, and we even had some served to us with a cocktail after dinner one night! That is my kind of after dinner drink!…

Gingerbread Doughnuts

December 1, 2013 by Cate 32 Comments

All the warm flavors of gingerbread are baked into a cute little donut and topped with a thick layer of frosting! These gingerbread donuts are perfect for the holiday season!

It is December 1 – let the Christmas recipes begin! I have a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit until Thanksgiving and my birthday have passed. But once they are over, I start to get so excited about Christmas. TheBetterHalf and I just got back from an amazing trip to Paris and Brussels (more to come about our trip in a future post) and both cities were all decked out for Christmas. It was gorgeous, and got me in such a festive mood!

So when I woke up at 5:00am this morning because of jetlag, naturally my thoughts immediately went to Christmas baking. And since it is a weekend morning, I focused on doughnuts, one of our favorite weekend breakfasts since I bought my Donut Pan. And so gingerbread donuts were born! …

Butterfinger Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

October 15, 2013 by Cate 22 Comments

Halloween is coming up, and you know what that means…candy everywhere!! What a great holiday. I’ll take any excuse I can to eat more sugar. I have the perfect recipe today to use up some leftover Halloween candy, or to take advantage of the Halloween candy sales that are all over the stores. This cookie uses one of my favorite candy bars – Butterfinger. Butterfinger Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies. There is a lot going on in this cookie! …

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