Dana Marie's Country Living Blog

One of my best tricks at Halloween is to make spider cookies. They're peanut butter cookies with little peanut butter cups on top. Here's how I do it - Halloween Spider Cookies Step 1 . Bake a batch of peanut butter cookies using your favorite recipe. Step 2 . While the cookies are still warm, put a small peanut butter cup on top of each one and let cool. Step 3 . Melt some chocolate chips, and using a piping bag or a plastic sandwich bag with a hole cut in the corner, draw some legs coming from each peanut butter cup. Step 4 . Pipe two dots onto each peanut butter cup and apply sugar eyes. You can find them in the baking section of your local store. And here's my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe from my newest cookbook, Vintage Cookie Recipes , available on Amazon® . Have a yummy, creepy Halloween! ~ Dana   Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup salted butter, softened 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup granulated white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla ...

My new cookie cookbook, Vintage Cookie Recipes, is here! It's available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook versions through Amazon ® .  If you have a copy of my Christmas desserts cookbook , you will see that we have kept the theme of the cover going so it will go with the cookbook series I am creating, My Olde Country Home. Volume 1 is Olde Fashioned Christmas Desserts, and volume 2 is Vintage Cookie Recipes. Volume 3 will be announced after the cookie cookbook is published.   Apple Pie Cookies   This book features a total of 84 recipes with 34 full-color photos. You'll find my tried-and-true recipes for cookies, bars, and biscotti. There are instructions for making jar-mixes for 12 classic cookies, some vintage recipes from the 1920s and a section of tips and tricks that I have learned along the way. The whole book is sprinkled with my sketches, plus vintage ads and illustrations as well as a couple of old photos of my family. Grandma and Grandpa Meier I love the ol...

I want to share what you can do if you decide you want to make a batch of cookies but open the fridge and realize you are out of eggs. To replace the eggs, add a nut butter or applesauce to your cookie recipe.   For example, my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe already has 1/2 cup of peanut butter in it, so you can add another 1/2 cup of peanut butter to total 1 cup overall. They come out great, but with a texture all their own - a little more crumbly and with a kind of a melt-in-your-mouth feature. I quite like them.   Another example is oatmeal cookies. Instead of the egg you can add a cup of applesauce. And again, they turn out great.   Oatmeal Cookies Without Eggs As you can see in the photos, these cookies look great too! This is a tip that didn't make it into my new cookie cookbook coming out shortly, so here are the recipes.    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Eggs   Ingredients 1 cup salted butter, softened 1 cup peanut butter 1...

I made these delicious cookies today with semisweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, and Peanut M&Ms.® It's kind of one of those cookies that you use what ya got. They are great! You can't tell in the photo but they are big!  For Large Cookies Step 1. I use an ice cream scoop for the big scoop and a regular-sized cookie scoop to add another scoop to the top of the ice cream scoop. Step 2. Then push down slightly on the stacked scoops. By doing this you will make your cookies nice and ooey gooey in the middle and crunchy on the outside. Look for my new cookie cookbook, My Olde Country Home: Vintage Cookie Recipes , on Amazon® . You can get a sneak-peek of the book  here . This big cookie is not in it, so I will share the recipe with you.  M&M®, Semisweet and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup salted butter 1/2 cup shortening 1-1/2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoo...