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Good Ol' Basic Sugar Cookies

My bf is picky…oh man if  he is! All he wants to eat is salty Chinese style soups…which yeah, are tasty but COME ON MAN! Give me a break here! I need to bake and experiment with new recipes all the time and I cannot, I repeat, I CANNOT, eat all I cook by myself!…for [...]

The Shortbread Cookies

I have such a love-hate relationship with cookies. I Love them for the way good cookies melt in your mouth, I Hate them cause when I eat them my butt goes one size up, I Love them because making cookies is such a lovely experience and you can get to pick their shape. I Hate [...]

Dual Color Swivel Cookies (girelle)

These are the best cookies I have prepared in a long time. They are just so good, soft but crispy and flavorful with their orange and cocoa aroma mixed together.

I used to eat them in Italy when I was in college. Right next to my uni there was this small baking place which sold all [...]

Peanut butter Chocolate chips Cookies

This is not an Italian recipe, but I just LOVE cookies and I think American cookies are really tasty. After the Chocolate chips cookies and the Oatmeal raisin cookies, today I’m going to show you how to make peanut butter chocolate chips cookies. I’m sure your kids (and not only…:)) will love them!

Ingredients (for about [...]

Butterfly cookies

Butterfly cookie is a recipe that I’ve seen my grandma made a thusands times when I was a little kid. On a Sunday morning she used to spend hours carefully preparing the buff pastry, then fold it and cut it in the shape of small, cute, little butterflies. I LOVED IT!

This Saturday morning I woke [...]

Valentine's cookies

Even if with a week delay, sorry but I was on vacation in Spain, here I am posting my Valentine recipe: the Valentine’s cookies! To decotate I’ve used sugar frosting but, if you want to make them lighter, just sprinkle on top some powdered sugar.

Ingredients (for about 28 cookies):

For the dough

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup [...]

Oatmeal raisin cookies

Whoever of you that know me, know my passion for cookies. On the streets of Shanghai is common to find people from XinJiang selling raisins and other dry fruits thus my idea of making oatmeal raisin cookies. For the oatmeal, I would not recommend you to go to CityShop, where they will charge you 90 [...]

Chocolate chip cookies

Cookies and chocolate are my favorite food! These cookies combine them together and are just amazing.

Apparently the chocolate chip cookies were invented in 1930 by Ruth Wakefield  in Massachusetts.

Lots of people have asked me to post the recipe so here we are, enjoy

Ingredients (for 30 cookies) 材料 (30饼干):

3/4 cup butter  – 3/4杯黄油
1/2 cup white sugar [...]

Squirrel Cookies

When I was in Beijing I lived with this fantastic woman, who turned out not only to be one of my best friend but also a great cook! From her I got some really useful cooking tips and delicious recipes. She used to make these cookies for me and her daughter and we loved them!

This [...]