These sugar-dusted shortbread cookies are near-relatives to snowballs, mexican wedding cakes, russian tea cakes, and melting moments. Another great cookie idea for holidays or everyday.

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This is another cookie recipe -- it comes from "Square Meals" by Jane and Michael Stern, and was in a chapter of recipes for a wedding shower. The heart shaped cookies seemed like a great idea for Valentine's Day, so this is where I'm putting it. Enjoy!

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When I was a child, my Godmother, Pearl, would bring or send butter cookies every Christmas. Although some of them would break into pieces, we'd always seek them out to the very last crumb. They were thin, crisp and delicious, yet not too sweet. This recipe comes from the 1950 Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book.

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When I was in grad school, I was lucky enough to have a friend who loved the combination of spice cake and penuche frosting. It was her favorite cake variety, so she made it for herself (and the rest of us) to celebrate her birthday. Since then, I've been looking for a recipe that doesn't make too big a cake. Here it is!

This version makes a single layer in a square 8" x 8" baking pan (or even a 9" x 9" pan, although it will come out thinner.)

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I found this delicious recipe in a spice cookbook and haven't seen any other cheese noodle kugel recipes that are quite the same. This recipe can be doubled and works out just as well.

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This pie recipe is based upon one that won the 1992 Pillsbury Bake Off, and its filling of lemon, white chocolate, and cream cheese are awesome. More recent recipes indicate that you can substitute light cream cheese (Neufchatel cheese) to reduce the fat and calories, but since I only make it on special occasions, I use the real thing.

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I love apple dumplings. I got spoiled some time ago when I got excellent apple dumplings at a restaurant (no longer around) in Menlo Park, CA called "Late for the Train." When I saw this recipe it sounded like the closest to that late, great dish. Especially yummy with ice cream or heavy cream poured and mixed in as you eat it. Heaven!

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I've been looking for a plain two-layer cheesecake recipe that I used to have (not sure how I misplaced it) -- made in regular 9" pie tins. I found one that sounds similar today on Cooks.com, but it makes two pies. Guess I'll have to give one of them away or figure out how to use the equivalent of half an egg (halving the recipe requires 1.5 eggs).

Anyway, I'll try this one and report back on the results.

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While not identical, these cookies all are similar to our beloved Mexican Wedding Cakes. The Butterballs use granulated sugar in the dough, the Melting Moments substitute some cornstarch for some of the flour.

The Mexican Wedding Cakes and Butterballs incorporate chopped nuts, while the Melting Moments don't. My original recipe for Butterballs used margarine, but I think it's worth the $ for real butter. Enjoy!

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I first made Lemon Luscious Pie in the late 1970s from a recipe in a Pillsbury dessert cookbook I'd been given by my grandparents. With the passage of years I managed to misplace the recipe, but I've found it again. It's another great thing to make when you have too many lemons.

One interesting thing about this pie is that it tastes a lot like a lemon cheesecake. You may want to try it with a crumb crust or no crust.

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I first made this some 20-plus years ago, and it's still great! You'll want to have a double boiler or use a metal (porcelain-coated metal is fine) bowl placed over a pot of water. This is quite rich, so it's probably best as a special occasion treat.

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Our friend Pat who dances in a couple of our clubs brought these cookies to me when I was in the hospital. They were delicious -- tasty, crisp, and had been made with a cinnamon sugar topping (instead of icing).

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This reclipe sounds like a winner -- found it while looking up Pennsylvania Dutch recipes online. In any case, I'll report back on how it tastes after I try it with the season's bounty of peaches.

The original source is here:
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/gearhard/recipes.htm

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Last week my Master Gardener class (and all the veteran MGs who were available) had a potluck lunch. Well, these folks are extremely good cooks, so I felt that I needed something that would be received as at least adequate in their eyes. A few days before, Dale gave me a load of lemons, so that became the theme I was going to work with. Click on the title above to get to the full recipe.

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These ginger snaps aren't as sweet as versions targeted toward children. They make excellent crisp dipping cookies to serve with coffee or tea, and they're addictive.

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This recipe was modified from one in "The Breakfast Book" by Marian Cunningham.

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