New Year’s Eve Cookies (“Gourmet” M&M cookies)

I really wanted a hot, freshly baked, chocolate chip cookie. We enjoyed my experiment so much I made a second batch with the boys, but made them “gourmet”. I let the boys chose which M&M’s and they chose peanut, peanut butter and a few of the plain ones. They were the perfect “New Year Party” cookies.

Zucchini Bread

This will either make one large loaf or two smaller loafs. Instead of using flour to dust the pans, these are good dusted with sugar.

“Pirate” Peanut Butter Cookies for “Talk Like a Pirate Day”

The Christie company out of Canada sells boxes of Pirate Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies which this is a copycat recipe for. Not sure why they chose the name “Pirate”, but the recipe caught my eye as we were looking for a new way to celebrate “Talk like a Pirate Day” this year. This is a combination of a few recipes and added chocolate chips.

The oatmeal cookies are good plain or filled.

Panic Butter Almond Cookies (GF, DF)

Adrian and two friends came home for Christmas break. They really wanted to cook, but needed to keep the recipe gluten free and dairy free. Over spring break, they perfected this recipe.