Washboard cookies 12 tomatoes

So since we were out of goodies in our house i thought about making some cookies. Well it is kinda hard to make cookies without chocolate chips but then i remembered this recipe. Sooo simple yet sooo good =) Ingredients 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 cup packed dark brown sugar 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon hot water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour sugar Directions In a mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and egg. Stir together baking soda…

Coconut Washboards are an old fashioned cookie that has been around since my great grandmother’s day. When I came across a few original recipes I was reluctant to try any of them because the …

This coconut cookie recipe delivers a mellow, lightly sweet-tasting cookie that's the perfect complement to a bowl of ice cream. And while we doubt you'll have any left over, they freeze well, meaning you'll always have a sweet treat on hand when the craving strikes.

I recently completed a bucket list item. We went to Vermont to take baking classes at the King Arthur Flour flagship store. It was amazing- 7 hours of classes in a day- I wish Washington and Vermont were closer together. The baking education center is phenomenal and the baking store is my version of Disneyland. Truly […]

My Grandmother’s Ice Box Cookie Recipe Click here to read the story behind the cookies. Ingredients 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup granulated white sugar 1 pound butter 3 eggs 6 cups flour 1 cup cho…

Cream together brown and white sugars, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Sift the flour, salt, and baking soda together. Add to creamed mixture and mix well. Fold in the corn flakes,...

Seven ingredients layered together in a pan make amazingly delicious 7 Layer Cookies. How can you go wrong with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans?

Modern washing machines made washboards a thing of the past, but these cookies are too good to forget. Crisp, rich with coconut, and only mildly sweet, Washboards are classic tea cookies that we deemed worthy of reintroducing to the cookie jar. For the crispest, lightest texture, we creamed together the butter and the sugar, then added the egg and vanilla before beating in the dry ingredients. We used light brown sugar, instead of the white sugar in the classic recipes, to lend the cookie a…

One reason I began A Cake Bakes was to discover delicious and unusual recipes from the past that for reasons unknown didn't make it to the 21st century. Coconut Washboards are that -- and true rock stars among cookies. These are very yummy and so easy to make. They are shaped like old-fashioned washboards and a fork is used to add the grooves, completing the look, A little internet research into these gems revealed that they were meant to suggest that hard work (i.e., scrubbing clothes by…