Butterscotch Candy Shortbread

Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter.  Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack. Often credited with their invention, Parkinson’s of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town’s best-known exports. They became famous in 1851 after Queen Victoria was presented…

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Orange Basil Shortbread

I often deliver treats to the folks downstairs – we live above a restaurant. Cookies, bread, pies… I like them – and I think they like me. However, one of my favorite friends downstairs is a gluten-free gal. I don’t often bake gluten-free, until now. Grace, these are for you. Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Orange…

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Lemon Thyme Sugar Cookies

Springtime is in the air. I can just feel it right around the corner. Despite the blizzardy, blustery conditions this last week, the sun is shining and the weekend calls for 60 degrees! It’s time to celebrate spring ~ the plethora of pastels and the fresh and fragrant flavors of the season. Lemon Thyme Sugar…

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